Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is still on the anti-vax wagon.

[progressoid]

Hmm, This Anti-Vaccination Rally Amid a Major Measles Outbreak Is a Little Too on the Nose


Anti-vaccination activists at a rally at Olympia, Washington on Feb. 8, 2019.
Photo: Ted S. Warren (AP)

Amid a measles outbreak in Washington state that officials have confirmed has spread to at least 51 people and suspect to have spread to over a dozen others, hundreds of people showed up to a rally on Friday to demand the right to keep exposing their kids to the possibility of contracting easily prevented, potentially fatal illnesses, multiple outlets reported.

According to the Washington Post, an estimated 700 people showed up to rally outside the State Capitol, “most of them opposed” to a proposed bill that would eliminate personal or philosophical exemptions to requirements families immunize their children against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). Joined by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—a longtime promoter of the debunked conspiracy theory linking autism to a mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, pulled from most vaccines starting in 1999—the anti-vaccination crowd parroted claims of a government coverup, insisted their children had been harmed or sickened by vaccines, and in one case “falsely said the majority of people diagnosed with measles have been vaccinated,” the Post wrote.


Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaking at an anti-vaccine rally in Olympia, Washington on Feb. 8, 2019.
Photo: Ted S. Warren (AP)

According to the Post, the bill would preserve existing religious and medical exemptions to vaccination requirements. The Centers for Disease Control (overwhelmingly supported by the scientific community) rates two doses of the MMR vaccine as completely safe and 97 percent effective.

Washington state health secretary John Wiesman told the crowd, “I want to remind you that the MMR vaccine is extremely safe and highly effective,” the Post wrote. He added, “all reputable scientific studies have found no relation between measles and autism.”

more...https://gizmodo.com/hmm-this-anti-vaccination-rally-amid-a-major-measles-o-1832492290

[Moostache]

1. Well...every family has at least one.

RFK Jr. is to the Kennedy family as Stephenis to the Baldwins...

[Evergreen Emerald]

2. Consequences to actions

No vaccines, no entry to schools, restaurants, shops, public buildings, doctor's offices, hospitals or any other place the public might be. I think that is fair.

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. Yes! I hear a lot of people saying they should be excluded from public schools.

That doesn't go far enough since a lot of these fools also home school their children.