@kaylan.bsky.social:
I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social
The arc of history bends back into an iron lung.
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As an Indian, my contempt for (rich white) anti-vaxxers in the west is so deep I often cannot quite find the words to express my contempt.
I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India. My father worked for the Pulse Polio program.
What is happening?
https://bsky.app/profile/shawnmicallef.bsky.social/post/3ld6ynwmfns2m
The New York Times@nytimes.com:
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
@firebird99.bsky.social:
There will be international travel bans for Americans if they ban vaccines. A plague ridden country and people nobody wants to be close to.
@invisgurl.bsky.social:
So all the babies they want to force women to have can then go die from things like polio? Nevermind, it’s brain rotting to try to figure out the absurdity of anything that calls itself Christian or conservative.
RFK Jr key adviser petitioned regulators to revoke approval of polio vaccine, Aaron Siri is helping Trump’s health secretary pick to select top jobs despite long history of attacking vaccines by Ed Pilkington, 13 Dec 2024, The Guardian
A key legal adviser to Robert Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, is at the center of efforts to push federal drug regulators to revoke approval for the polio and hepatitis B vaccines and block distribution of 13 other critical vaccines.
Aaron Siri, a lawyer who has been helping Kennedy select top health administrators as part of the Trump transition process, is deeply embedded in longstanding efforts to force the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to withdraw a raft of vaccines that have saved the lives and health of millions of Americans.
Siri has been sitting alongside Kennedy in interviews in which they have asked candidates for top health jobs where they stand on vaccines, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Kennedy, a leading vaccine sceptic, has insisted he has no plans to revoke vaccines should he be confirmed by the US Senate for the health secretary position. But his close ties with Siri are raising concerns about the incoming Trump administration’s intentions, given the lawyer’s intimate involvement in the anti-vaccine movement.
Kennedy Jr is just another lying shit-fucking lawyer
Siri works closely with the Informed Consent Action Network (Ican), a “medical freedom” non-profit founded by Del Bigtree, whose has long waged war on vaccines including as producer of the anti-vaccination documentary, Vaxxed. The New York Times report noted that Siri filed the 2022 petition calling for the FDA to revoke approval for the polio vaccine on behalf of ICAN.
Poliovirus, the cause of a disease that used to be one of the most feared by Americans, has been eliminated from the country by the US through polio vaccines. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that the best way to avoid its return and keep people safe is through vaccination.
Siri has not only been involved in lawsuits calling for the withdrawal or suspension of the polio and hepatitis B vaccines, but he has also petitioned the FDA to “pause distribution” of 13 other vaccines, according to the Times.Lawyers must be punted permanently from politics; they are too abusive and harmful to the public (and drinking water, environment, air, health).
Trump said this week that Kennedy may investigate vaccines for a supposed link with autism. The remark to NBC suggests that his pick for health secretary may run with the conspiracy theory that there is a connection between childhood vaccinations and autism that has been thoroughly debunked yet is repeatedly peddled by Kennedy.In my view, the greedy pimple does that to rake in $millions in donations.
Kennedy’s spokesperson, Katie Miller, confirmed to the Times that Siri has been advising Kennedy but said his vaccine petitions had not been discussed.
“Mr Kennedy has long said that he wants transparency in vaccines and to give people choice,” she said.I don’t believe a fucking word they in the new USA Admin of Rape spew.
@anita72.bsky.social:
As a polio survivor, I dissent. This man is out of his mind.
@mistyswoman.bsky.social:
My uncle contracted polio in the 1950s; he was in an iron lung for months and has restricted mobility. He has also now developed post-polio-syndrome.
These people are out of their fucking minds.
@pflanzenkraft.bsky.social:
I am older, grew up seeing people severly handicapped in their walking from polio. You could spot them right away, sad sight.
(we had mandatory vaccination by then, thank God)
Robert Kennedy Jr. has been an icon in the German anti-vaxxer community long before covid. Insane having him in this job.
@christopherexp.bsky.social:
Another clear example of the maga “burn it all down” ideologyMAGA politicos love to make the stupid who vote for them suffer, same in Canada.
@seayorky.bsky.social:
….Trump Is going to allow Kennedy to return your children to deadly or life changing illnesses that vaccines have all but eradicated.
Tyla Smith@tylaevon73.bsky.social:
I mean… they don’t seem to care that children are being murdered every day by gun violence, so why would they care about anything else killing them?
@bladeofthes.bsky.social:
The average lifespan was 35 and 50% of people died before they were 2.
Is what they did.
@mcspocky.bsky.social:
Polio and smallpox were eradicated by VACCINES!
Poppa@missymouse905.bsky.social:
The simple math. There are around 30 million under 6 children in the US. 1 in 200 will contract the full disease. That is 150,000 out of that 15,000 will die outright.
This is premeditated murder of American children by a deranged felon and rapist Trump
Patti Olivier @patti3333.bsky.social:
Good Morning SKIES of BLUE
I was one of these beautiful children
VACCINES WORK…
SCIENCE WORKS…
PLEASE inudate your SENATORS
DO NOT CONFIRM RFKJR
Totally Unfit to be in chargeWhich is why he was chosen
Our children deserve better