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That baby was ALREADY born WHO cares?
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Have actual close family that recently had kids, refused all vaccines due to religious reasons.
Feel bad for those kids man.
It's murder. The abrahamic faiths are death cults. Any religion with a happy afterlife devalues real life. "It's okay, they went home to god." No, they're dead and gone forever, and it was completely unnecessary.
Yep. As I keep quoting Hubert Reeves:
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.
Everyone remembers the Sermon on the vaccines when Jesus said the MMR vaccine gives you autism.
I’d probably rather be autistic than dead but that’s just me I guess.
Kinda...
Matthew 8:
Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you." And his servant was healed that same hour.
Matthew 9:
But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, "Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.
Mark 5:
And He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction."
Mark 11:
"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
Luke 17:
And He said to him, "Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well."
It's no wonder many bible believers come away thinking all they need is faith and prayers.
And hey, what if sickness and death are good things, actually?
Romans 5:
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope
Romans 8:
But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
And:
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
2 Corinthians 4:
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
That is how we get here: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/texas-measles-family-gaines-county-death/
“It was her time on Earth,” the translator said the parents told her. “They believe she’s better off where she is now.”
What I don't understand is how do people think RFK Jr is some healthy individual?
He ate raw fish and got a brain eating worm from it. He couldnt tell the difference between a goat or a dog.
He cut the head off a whale to show the kids
He found a bear and decided to eat it but later dumped it in central park
He admits to snorting coke off a toilet seat
He likes to collect skulls and penises of various animal, Dahmer did this
He works out in jeans and won't show his legs (my guess is steroid marks in his legs)
How do people think he is some how the guiding light of health? Anyone born into money would be able to survive this as they can afford to get the help they need.
You should add, swimming (and fully submerging) with his grandchildren in raw sewage.
In one of the photos from Sunday, Kennedy is seen fully submerged in the water, with his grandchildren swimming, in spite of an ongoing National Park Service advisory against coming in contact with the water in the Washington, D.C., park “due to high bacteria levels.” The same notice says swimming and wading are not permitted due to the health risks.
...
A microbial source tracking report published in 2022 by the D.C. government said that ambient water monitoring for Rock Creek showed "chronic elevated levels" of E.coli. "Fecal coliform" bacteria stemming from sewage is also deposited into Rock Creek, the Potomac and other tributary waters from combined sewers during storms according to a 2002 report from the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority.
He works out in jeans and won't show his legs (my guess is steroid marks in his legs)
You are right, he is on juice, I think he even admitted himself that he is on TRT, which isn't uncommon for wealthy men his age but yeah.
Still very ironic and inconsistent of him to promote "wellness farms" instead of SSRI's and Adderall, while being on TRT which has way more side effects.
Its a combination of things and time.
First is name recognition. If you hear things from a name you know you are going to give it more consideration regardless of its insanity.
Second is Jenny McCarthy broke the brains of a lot of American moms, in the 2000s? I think it was going on her massive tour of talk shows saying vaccines cause autism. She was never an expert and the only study ever cited was debunked. Massive TV talk shows put her on to nation wide audiences including Oprah, known for giving us such awesome people as Dr Oz and Dr Phil. Saying she knew her child better and the causes of autism vs what those dorks in science were saying gave some people the idea you could know better than an expert in a field.
Next the internet became what it is... an awful place where you can find a number of people to agree to damn near anything. Yea maybe before there was one mom who was anti vax in your town and everyone thought she was a kook. Now she has friends online that can provide her with wild stories and made up statistics that you cannot counter on the fly. Mommy blogs and now influencers talk about all different ways to keep your baby safe from "big pharma" and their evil vaccines but you should totally buy this $250 a month bone broth, methalyne blue pill that will keep you healthy. Disregard the fact its never actually been tested and we wont tell you where it comes from.
I think anti intellectualism is the final piece to this. No longer do people feel ok saying "I dont know" when presented with hard questions or things they habe no basis in. We have fought against things science has shown us because it doesnt match our beliefs, evolution, or it isnt immediately obvious what it hurting, climate change, or we have never experienced the horrors of some diseases, anti vaccine.
RFK Jr ticks all these. He is a Kennedy and regardless of your political affiliation you know that name. He speaks to the same anti vaccine sentament McCarthy started years ago. Ignore all those deaths in American Samoa that were the cause of him preaching his anti vaccine bs. He is also clearly not an expert so he is not made bias by those evil intellectuals in their ivory towers. He studied this stuff and didnt need to do any of that stupid testing.
Long and short of it, RFK Jr is only the picture of health to those who want him to be. They see the same stuff we all do but it doesnt matter because he says what they want to hear.
Sorry this was longer than I expected it to be.
Oprah
It's weird how she tends to get a pass on things, but how was she not the Joe Rogan for the daytime TV set?
Something you missed is that he has the entire "wellness" industry fluffing him up.
There are no YouTube channels with people saying "I got vaccinated and didn't get sick", but there's plenty of people making a livelihood out of demonizing vaccines.
I didn't know who Jenny McCarthy was when I started watching The Masked Singer. I don't keep up with a lot of pop culture, so I thought she was probably an actress who'd just been on shows hadn't seen before. (I didn't know Robin Thicke or Nicole Scherzinger were either, at first. And I often don't know who the celebrity contestants are, too.) Then one time a contestant thanked her for her work... and so I wondered and searched online.
Ken Jeong is a comedian, but he was a medical doctor first and he continues to work enough as an MD to keep his credentials. How can stand to sit at the same table as her? Especially when it was COVID and people were literally dying by the millions. (That's when I first saw the show.) I suppose the money is good enough for him to put aside his medical credentials and Hippocratic oath aside when he's not actually practising.
Depending on your age its entirely ok to not know McCarthy.
To show my age the reason I know her is she, along with Carmen Electra were popular Playboy models who parlayed that into mainstream appeal. Which is kind of wild to think about now. I have no idea if any other models ever did that as successfully. McCarthy also was a cohost on MTVs game show Singled Out that was hosted by of all people Chris Hardwick.
RFK Jr is only the picture of health to those who want him to be.
Same with Trump when all those people make pictures of him as someone with a 12-pack looking like Arnold.
He’s a fucking junky.
Not to mention the insane vocal chord condition he has that makes his voice sound like a fucking ghoul.
We don't need to mock an actual disability. He has plenty of personal faults to focus on.
Republicans are the actual baby killers. After 50 years of bitching and whining about Roe.
Pro-lifers doing what they do.
It’s easy to “care” about a fetus you actually have to put no effort into having a relationship with and can’t even interact with. It makes them feel noble without having to do anything. Meanwhile, screw children post-birth!
Give them all the rights in the world when they’re still in the womb, let them suffer when they’re born.
Christians didn’t even care about abortion prior to the GOP weaponizing it as a political tool to tempt religious wackos into their party.
The modern eugenics/Christian death cult movement. It wasn’t strong enough and god wanted it.
Friggin' spawn camper.
The pro-birth anti-life crowd claims another victim.
I would say I'm shocked that the CDC director is a coward.
Kennedy ordered Erica Schwartz, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to remove the deaths from the agency’s data. CDC staff had already accepted the deaths as being from measles and had reported them as such. Schwartz reportedly removed them from the public website without objection, though a report on Thursday revealed they are still included in an internal CDC database.
However, her confirmation hearing strongly hinted she was going to cave to RFK Jr's anti-vax bullshit.
Cassidy kicked off questions by asking Schwartz directly: “Will you commit to this committee and to the American people to have the same integrity as [Monarez]? That if asked to do something which is wrong for public health, that you will stand up as she did [and] object, if necessary, publicly.” But Schwartz didn’t answer the question directly, only saying that she has led by integrity and that she took the Hippocratic oath as a doctor.
lol integrity just means your actions line up with your words. These fucking people use integrity to trick idiots. Idiots assume integrity means you’re morally on the same side. lol, no.
RFK disputed the cause of death. This is a specific level of fucked up when you know that someone has lost their baby.
Clearly it was a pre-existing condition. He clearly got sick and died to make Trump look bad. F’ken libruls!
Damn, I thought it might be children with how they were gatekeeping the info. This is incredibly sad.
Can't Trump issue executive order to change the cause of death? Problem solved.