RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/rfk-jr-promptly-cancels-vaccine-advisory-meeting-pulls-flu-shot-campaign/

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  2. Sounds like a smart move while we’re currently having a bird flu outbreak among our farms to the point we are importing eggs from Turkey. Texas is experiencing it’s largest measles outbreak in decades. And Kansas is having a surge of TB. Bang up leadership there.

  3. Wonder how many people will die from this. I know he or maga will not care unless it’s someone they know and care about.

  5. What makes RFK Jr. dangerous is that, in spite of his professed openness to new information, he frequently ignores data that contradicts his positions. He’s either unable or unwilling to discern patterns from observation – the very basis of science.

  6. People are going to die from this 100% guaranteed.

  7. The amount of spinning heard in Arlington National Cemetery near the eternal flame is deafening.

  8. This fucking asshole can take his anti-science horseshit, put it in a rusty container, and shove it sideways up his old ass. Fucking prick.

  9. The us deserves a MAGA virus that attaches to the maga-maniacs and kills their stupidity

  11. They want us sick and starving so we can’t fight back. 

  12. It’d be the ultimate irony if one day this guy kicks the bucket from something that a vaccine could have prevented.

  13. So we should get any vaccine update that we might need now before the national supplies are recalled and incinerated ?

  15. Instead, everyone will be given free shots of ketamine.

  16. What is the reason for this? I just don’t get it; how does this advance some MAGA agenda, when it’s mostly going to kill MAGAts?

  17. Maybe we will get lucky and he’ll become deathly ill with the flu

  18. Over the next couple of years America is going to see an unprecedented rise in deaths from preventable disease. Once it gets going, they’ll be no stopping it. All because of the lunatics trump hired to make decisions on behalf of an unsuspecting public.

  19. This hurts their base alot more then liberal states where science is still believed.

    Poor white people can’t afford the care needed when their boomer parents end up with 20 day stays in intensive care level of hospital bills.

  20. …which he promised under oath in his confirmation hearing NOT to do.

  21. A lot of people need to end up in jail for all of this.

    They are weakening America and literally KILLING people. Their cockamamie ideas and junk science, along with their newly installed PR propagandists, who are laughably incompetent at defending these actions, are enganged in treasonous and seditious acts, which we know their leader has more than a passing familiarity with.

    This will not stand.

    PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE AND THINK ABOUT THE WEAKER AMONG US. OUR KIDS, THE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED, THE ELDERLY. HOW CAN WE NOT BE OUTRAGED?

    (sorry, this bullshit and the IDIOTS responsible NEED to be held accountable at some point in the future.)

  22. I’m curious, how will the insurance companies respond to this?

  23. “Worried about the flu? Eat some roadkill”

    -The American Government, probably

    Edit: *roadbitussin*

  25. Pulling the flu shot affects many older people. Those people tend to receive Social Security and Medicare.

    If these older people die from the flu, no need for SS or Medicare, except they’re trying to get rid of Government help first before killing off people.

  26. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The last few years have *drastically* lowered my standards for how stupid the villains can be in fictional works while still being a threat.

  28. I can’t decide who the worst Kennedy is? RFK Jr or his grandfather Joseph? Joseph was an antisemite and a coward who tried to appease the Nazis to prevent the US from entering the war. He was a sexual predator, and a vain and proud narcissist who pushed around his family and had his daughter lobotomized. RFK Jr is also sexual predator, and a vain and proud narcissist and weirdo who is willing to work in a fascist government in order to implement his crazy antivax and anti science agenda. He doesn’t care how many people he hurts just as long as he can feel justified. I guess RFK Jr is the worst one, because at least Joseph wanted to preserve the US despite him going about it in the wrong way. He didn’t work directly with the Nazis like his grandson. 

  29. The Kennedys have previously given their “less gifted” family members prefrontal lobotomies.

    I think they gave RFK jr one and told him it was a brain worm.

    This fucker should be institutionalized – not running the government.

  30. Right smack dab in the middle of the worst flu season in 15 years.

    Welp, I guess I’ll be calling my Senators to remind them that I asked them not to confirm this asshole, and to demand to know why the hell they condone this bullshit.

  31. Its like they want people die.

    He is the horseman called pestilence

  32. “Saving” taxpayer money by eliminating vital preemptive medical care strategies, firing federal workers, and gutting essential government agencies

    Spending extravagant amounts of taxpayer money on golfing, football game attendance, and DOGE celebration party. Oh yeah, and using taxpayer funds to destroy our country

    Hmm 🤔

  33. Never forget that MAGA happily voted in an anti-vaxxer to lead the department of health.

  34. I bet Susan Collins is going to hold him accountable for this. /s

  35. Everything is bad right now in the US. 

    But RFK Jr. is most likely going to be the one personnell decision that will turn out to be the deadliest for everyday Americans. He’s a regressive, unscientific whack who’s in a position that gives him way too much influence over an area that has been part of the foundation of the US’ prosperity. One can’t overstate how important vaccines and general health education are. This might become highly inaccessible to the average US citizen. 

    Unless that sorrow bunch of fascist losers starts WW3, RFK Jr. will have the most souls on his conscience when this is all over.

  36. I don’t get the anti-science thing with conservatives. I mean, I can understand some of their other positions. They take them to far, but objectively some of their arguments make some sense. I don’t get the science deniers.

  37. The *BRING OUT YOUR DEAD* campaign is really going to be something.

  38. Surprising no one, a Trump appointee lied about their priorities in congressional hearings and promptly flipped back to their original position once they were over the finish line.

  39. I already see the headline in a few weeks: “Europe forces Americans into 2 week quarantine when ill”.

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