NonDenial Denial "Kennedy believes the Polio Vaccine should be ... thoroughly and properly studied"

[speak easy]

Trump nominees should ‘steer clear’ of undermining polio vaccine, McConnell says

“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” McConnell said in a statement Friday. “Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.”

The 82-year-old lawmaker’s statement appeared to be directed at Trump’s pick for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after a report that one of his advisers filed a petition to revoke approval for the polio vaccine in 2022. That vaccine is widely considered to have halted the disease in most parts of the world.

McConnell’s words were a sign that Kennedy, who has long advanced the debunked idea that vaccines cause autism, could face some resistance in the soon-to-be GOP-controlled Senate.

“Mr. Kennedy believes the Polio Vaccine should be available to the public and thoroughly and properly studied,” said Katie Miller, the transition spokeswoman for Kennedy, in response to questions.

https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-vaccines-mcconnell-polio-f7b7ffbc4ea2b274df658c85374a7a7f

[vapor2]

1. Are these people drinking the kool aid?

[rampartd]

9. they probably think red dye #2 cures polio

it is like the second ingredient in kool aid after sugar.

[Autumn]

2. Anybody here in the US have polio lately other than ONE unvaccinated person who had

traveled from Hungary to the US in 2022? One case since 1979. There's worm brains fucking study.

[Klarkashton]

3. What's Kennedy's take on the shape of the earth?

Round or flat?

[speak easy]

5. Q: "Round or flat?" A: Cigar.

[rpannier]

14. It sits on the back of a Turtle

That is held up by an Olympian deity

[Aussie105]

4. The data will be studied carefully!

- it already has.

It's effectiveness will be looked at!

- it already has.

We will look at the possible link with autism!

- debunked ages ago.

The data will be studied carefully! (Until we find data that fits in with our preconceived ideas.)

I guess someone wants to go back to the Middle ages?
- people pure of heart will not get the plague!
- God will protect the righteous!
etc

Cue Dr Oz selling 'remedies'!

[dchill]

6. No, he doesn't.

[struggle4progress]

7. Kennedy is a general vaccine denier; and the polio vaccine bruhaha

is simply a tactical deflection

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Gee, it's not like we don't have 70 years of global data backing up its

effectiveness.

[rampartd]

10. and a control group that includes mitch mcconnell and fdr

Last edited Mon Dec 16, 2024, 01:07 AM - Edit history (1)

there was a recent "test" on samoa of the measles vaccine instigated by rfk jr. 83 children dead.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. JFK? Don't you mean RFK, Jr.?

[rampartd]

19. 00ps fixed.

[Retrograde]

11. I got the polio vaccine over 60 years ago

and it wasn't brand new at the time. The last time I was in Manhattan one of the New York history museums had a display on polio epidemics in the 1930s and 40s - it included an iron lung. I suggest Kennedy and the idjits advising him see if they can borrow it and spend a day or two inside it. And then take an intro-level course on epidemiology. And re-take it if they still insist on this nonsense

[louis-t]

12. RFK should be injected with polio.

And small pox and measles and rubella and mumps. Then see what he thinks about vaccines.

[Iggo]

15. Let's see... RFKjr or Jonas by gawd motherfucking Salk?

Seriously? That’s where we are as a society?

[Klarkashton]

16. It's where that mentally ill piece of shit is at.

[Iggo]

17. And scores of millions of his "economically anxious" voters.

[Klarkashton]

20. That did their "own research"

They watched Joe Rogan.

[area51]

18. I think Kennedy should be studied

to see if he has a brain.