RFK Jr. Now Responsible for 35-Year Record High in Measles: Add that to the salmonella risk, the flesh-eating parasite infesting cattle, and the explosive diarrhea outbreak.
https://newrepublic.com/post/213515/rfk-jr-35-year-record-high-measles
https://newrepublic.com/post/213515/rfk-jr-35-year-record-high-measles
26 Comments
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 19d
RFK Jr worships Nurgle: confirmed
Jhex@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 19d
Muricans, this is what happens when you choose ignorance and pettiness above all
starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 19d
The Venn diagram of Americans who use Lemmy and Americans who voted for Trump is just two separate circles
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 19d
WE KNOW.
Well. Some of us, anyway.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 19d
There's like fifty layers of context involved but the short version is that we're currently losing the American Civil War that never properly ended because we didn't hold the traitors to account. The nation hasn't been this divided since we had separate drinking fountains for black people. I'd bet that most Americans on this platform did not choose ignorance and pettiness.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 19d
America should have just let the confederacy seperate. Then the confederacy would've collapsed in on itself and begged to be salvaged by America
danekrae@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 19d
His brain worm:
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 19d
I would be so much happier if it turned out that the brainworm was responsible for all this mess, Las Plagas style.
Rubisco@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 19d
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 17 pts · 19d
ftfy
Manjushri@piefed.social · 12 pts · 19d
Bad headline. It makes it sound like that flesh eating parasite only goes after cattle. It doesn't. The New World Screwworm can infect any warm blooded animal. The fact that they found infected cattle means that there almost certainly are infected wild animals. Wild animals that can carry the infection many many miles before they die from it and spawn screwworm flies in a new area.
That assumes that some rancher in the area doesn't decide to move their herd and transport infected livestock to another part of the country. That's one way the parasite moved north from Central America so quickly.
If you are in an area with a known infestation, be very carefull.
Also, watch for symptoms, which can include:
You may be wishing you only had salmonella or explosive diarrhea before this summer is over.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 19d
If only we could have foreseen this when they hired an idiot off the street to be in charge of a nation's health! No medical expertise whatsoever and doesn't even believe in modern medicine!
boelder@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 19d
But he cooks up a mean roadkill...
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 19d
So does my cousin Jebediah, doesn't mean I'd trust him with a Crayola dry erase marker let alone a government agency.
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 19d
If only people actually showed up to tick boxes on a piece of paper and stop this...
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 19d
I'm joining the war on disease! On the side of disease!
Aneb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d
Damn you voted for Trump huh, /s
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 19d
So what a bunch of people with common sense knew would happen ended up happening? Color me saw this coming.
chahn.chris@piefed.social · 4 pts · 19d
America smells so great again.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d
But he solved autism!
Turns out it was the aspirin. Or whatever.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 19d
Tylenol
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d
He should be tarred and feathered, but at worst he'll be allowed to resign with no penalties.
Loce@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d
Is like he's playing Plague in.
blazeknave@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d
Gov bad. Does nothing for me. /s
Poojabber@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 19d
RFK is an idiot, and is enabling other idiots to do more idiotic stuff, but assuming the "flesh eating parasite infesting cattle" is the new world screw worm, that has been coming for years and cant be blamed on RFK.... He is stupid enough on his own merit.... we dont need to add to his list of incompetence.
Dpek@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 19d
And yet the latest cuts to the funding for prevention was under him
+use as propaganda "why are the democrates funding makeing and release of sterile flies? Our money could be used for something better then this nonsense"