Hawaii Gov: RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Misinformation Left Dozens Of Kids Dead In Samoa

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hawaii-governor-josh-green-rfk-jr-vaccines-hhs_n_677ebc3ce4b0f751b99402ae

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  1. From reporter Jennifer Bendery:

    Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) on Wednesday warned senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next health and human services secretary, sharing a dark story about Kennedy fueling an anti-vaccine misinformation campaign that Green said led to dozens of children dying in Samoa amid a measles outbreak.

    “This is an absolute life-or-death decision that the Senate … and frankly the incoming president is poised to make over our future,” Green, who is also a physician, said at a Capitol Hill press conference with other lawmakers who are medical professionals.

    Link to the full article: [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hawaii-governor-josh-green-rfk-jr-vaccines-hhs_n_677ebc3ce4b0f751b99402ae](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hawaii-governor-josh-green-rfk-jr-vaccines-hhs_n_677ebc3ce4b0f751b99402ae)

  3. Oh, NOW they bring up the dead kids… when it doesn’t fucking matter anymore.

    Jesus fucking christ, I hate the media. “Oooo he had a brain worm”… “he ate a dog”…

    HE KILLED 83 CHILDREN!

    This isn’t some secret, it’s been known forever.

  4. That’s a selling point for Republican voters.

  5. So the deal made to drop out in exchange for the HHS post has potential deadly consequences. Simply shocking…

  6. It’s hilarious that it has taken Americans 80 years to realize that increasing children’s suffering is the raison d’être of conservatives.

    Deregulation, reducing food safety, drill baby drill, overturning child labor laws, denying climate change, botching the COVID and HIV on purpose, anti-vax, pro-life, destroying reproductive healthcare, defunding education, slashing planned parenthood, fighting against affordable school lunches, gun glorification, mass incarceration, Emmett Till, Tamir Rice, George Stinney, the Central Park exonorated five, intentionally making socioeconomic upward mobility for the poor impossible…

    Cruelty, declinism, isolationism, biblical atrocities and animosity are the bread and butter of the “pro life”.

  7. Yeah we knew all this and more before the election, but the billionaires had already made their deals with Trump. They also managed to convince the people that it’s the DEMS that are the party of the elite, somehow getting people to believe that elite = educated. Which is, of course, why they want to defund the Dept of Education.

  9. Maybe if he can get MAGA to drink raw milk it will thin the herd.

  10. “Green urged President-elect Donald Trump to rethink Kennedy’s nomination and instead consider him for a different post. “There may be a very good place for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” he said. “This is not partisan. This is not political. This is medical.”
    Green’s press event was hosted by Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.), who is a pediatrician. She said she’s met with lots of parents worried about the safety of vaccines because of misinformation being spread by people like Kennedy.”

    Nice to see my congresswoman involved, good job Dr. Schrier.

  11. MAGA loves dead children and women. Blood for their Orange God, skulls for his skull throne.

  12. Headline and a lot of reporting leaves out the fact **Josh Green is not just a governor, he’s a well regarded physician**, so he’s uniquely well qualified to be warning everyone of RFK Jr’s psychotic misinformation.

  13. You tell his fanbois stuff like this and they don’t even parse it.

  14. He’s also an AIDS denialist. The folk who support him aren’t bothered in the slightest. Dead Samoan kids don’t bother MAGA, and neither do people dying needlessly of HIV/AIDS. This is the future they **want** for America, where the right people are hurt, and their kind of people rise to the top, even if they have to climb a mountain of bodies to do it.

  15. Dozens? How many kids have suffered bc of all of the inane anti-science nonsense of the right wing for the past decade?

  16. The luckiest Kennedy sibling was the one that slammed into the tree.

  17. I am suspicious of simply a neighbor bringing crazy to my world. I’m not sure why we’ve enabled psychos like this to be in charge.

  20. I wish I had at least one product that the gov mandated every newborn American get. Me my kids and my kids kids and their kids would be set for life

  24. Whooping cough and flu are raging in Idaho right now, it’s really bad.

    This is the reality of what will happen to all of the US if he’s confirmed and they get rid of vaccinations or start deprioritizing childhood vaccines due to bogus safety concerns.

    They think their kids will be safe because they’ll vaccinate them but that’s not entirely how vaccines/herd immunity works.

    They’re just as vulnerable as everyone else.

  25. Remember, the American electorate voted for this.

    They *want* kids to die and be crippled by easily preventable disease. They *agreed* that inflicting long COVID on millions of people was, in retrospect, worth enriching the already rich. Our deaths are simply a sacrifice they are willing to make.

    We are a deeply unserious people.

    Edit: Personally, at this point I only really care about the power ministries – State, Treasury, Defense, Justice – as they are the ones that matter to having future elections, so that hopefully in four years the American people will realize some fraction of how horrible Trump and his Republican party is. Trump’s nominees for State and Treasury are … okayish. But Hegseth and Bondi are profoundly terrible.

    Outside of those, the worst that can happen is that only hundreds of thousands to millions of Americans die – after all, COVID took 1.2 million Americans, and the electorate said we want more of the leadership that brought us that reality.

  26. You know, I’m more and more convinced that Trump is only getting on with his shit lately to distract everyone from pushing his confirmations through.

  29. Did you just watch that WIRED upload, too?

    I swear, the timing is uncanny! Lol

    I like her, btw. I’m glad they brought her back for another video.

  31. So, he’s an idiot. But also, anyone taking his advice is also an idiot.

  32. Eugenics: just you and your immediate bloodline procreating. 🤮

  33. This Governor is in the pocket of Big Pharma. Everything he says are lies.

  34. Now Trump is giving him the opportunity to cause millions of deaths.

  35. all vaccines are harmful communist plot to control our precious bodily fluids

  36. Better than having life long complications — or immunity — caused by vaccines!

  38. How can you listen to this guy for more than a few minutes and not realize he’s full of shit?

  39. You’ll be damn lucky the death tolls doesn’t go into the *millions.*

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