Never forget that RFK Jr. helped bring about an outbreak of measles in 2019, in Samoa, in which almost 6,000 people became ill and 83 died, most of which were young children.
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He absolutely should've gone to prison for this - it should most certainly be illegal to spread misinformation for the purposes of impairing public health
I continue to be utterly baffled by anti-vax ppl but can intellectually get doubt (even if I think we as a society need to be much tougher for public health reasons). MAGA cynical exploitation of confusion and mistrust is a whole other category of awful.
and then he denied it even when he was presented with the materials he had prepared and disseminated in the territory along with correspondence he had _signed_
He’s been an antivax annoyance since before COVID, but it was whitewashed because of his name for a long time. I haven’t gotten that far in the BtB episodes on him yet but am glad it was mentioned.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/samoan-children-are-dying-of-measles-so-new-zealanders-are-sending-child-size-coffins/O2FID6ZQ3COYLICPWUHTLUUIPQ/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-four-the-rfk-jr-episodes-201368937/