He’s not, the headline is misleading. He doesn’t recommend the vaccine in the article at all. He says it’s effective and lists all the bullshit pseudo-science health claims.
First read, I thought he WAS recommending the vaccine. Saw your comment, read it again & you are correct.
I think my initial takeaway was informed by my belief in the efficacy of vaccines. An anti-vaxxer would probably apply their own confirmation bias & conclude their kid needs more vitamin C.
My aunt is an antivax person. Especially for Covid. I told her Trump gets vaccinated, she said he just says that stuff. She doesn’t believe he’s really vaccinated. 🤦🏼♀️
I don’t see him recommending vax. He dances around it. He does say, “Good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses” — a lovely thought but a red herring. Fortunately, new CDC guidance still says, “Vaccination remains the best defense against measles infection.”
For me, that came out of nowhere. But I’m not an infectious disease expert. I’d have to study the evidence before commenting on it. Unlike RFK, I don’t weigh in on things I don’t know anything about.
Adding: I'm not an expert in infectious disease either. But expertise in one science area theoretically gives us the ability to better read and digest material from other areas of study to varying degrees. I may not completely understand everything I see but I know when I do and when I don't.
for children with relatively normal nutrition profiles, vit A doesn't do anything for measles. It doesn't prevent it and doesn't treat it, either. But the severely deficient do have worse outcomes.
aha, I can give you a skeletal commentary on it. Antivaxxers like to say that vitamin A prevents or cures measles. They took something with a kernel of truth and twisted it. Vit A is a supportive therapy in children with measles who are severely deficient in it, and improves their outcomes.
I wonder how the parents feel that lost their child to measles when they knew that their child would still be alive if they had allowed the child to take the vaccine . A unnecessary and easily preventable death 💀
Morbillivirus hominis (measles virus) is forever grateful to RFK Jr for allowing it to re-establish itself in the US. With RFK Jr's help, a new generation of science-denying anti-vaxxers guarantees that Morbillivirus will continue to thrive in the US.
It sounds more like a #CoverMyAss suggestion, filled with reassurances to his followers that it's *only* a suggestion and that everybody should have the choice of not caring about others.
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I very much doubt the anti Vax diehard will change their minds.
Do not give him credit.
He moved into a wooden building and HIRED TERMITES!
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-samoa-measles-kennedy-vaccines-pacific-42a9cb583c71f165699b16710884c474
I think my initial takeaway was informed by my belief in the efficacy of vaccines. An anti-vaxxer would probably apply their own confirmation bias & conclude their kid needs more vitamin C.
What a shame. 😉
(and I’ve *never* included that many emojis in one reply before!)
Lmao
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-call-action-all-us
Here it is:
It is a call to get your kid and yourself vaccinated.
Then again, if you get measles as a kid you don’t get them as an adult. But if you get measles as an adult, I’ve heard you don’t get kids.
Wonder if we could find a chicken-poxxed kid to give him a big kiss!
It sounds more like a #CoverMyAss suggestion, filled with reassurances to his followers that it's *only* a suggestion and that everybody should have the choice of not caring about others.