Robert Kennedy Jr.: The Trump White House Has Shut Me Out on Vaccines

[brooklynite]

Daily Beast

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the Trump administration had turned its back on vaccine skeptics, including himself, after initially expressing interest in creating a group to look into their safety.

“He told me that he wanted to create a vaccine safety commission and that he wanted me to chair it,” Kennedy said in response to a question at the Connecticut Vaccine Science Forum. “He asked me to announce it at a press conference, to the press at Trump tower and almost immediately I started feeling a lot of blowback within the administration.”

[nolabear]

1. Well, a stopped clock...

[Leith]

11. That's the first thing I thought of, too

I wish Kennedy would stop with crap like that. It's embarrassing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Possibly the only smart thing that administration has done.

[RockRaven]

5. Probably for the wrong reason, and they might include a different just-as-dangerous moron instead

but for now I guess we ought to be satisfied.

[MiniMe]

3. I just think RFK jr is wrong on this subject

Everybody who can take a vaccine should take it.

I love the guy in Italy who was anti-vaccine, and is hospitalized now with chicken pox.

[Dave Starsky]

13. I contracted chicken pox as a young adult, and I nearly died from it.

My parents and doctor were reluctant to have me exposed to it as a child, because I had other serious health conditions where it might have killed me.

A vaccine didn't exist at the time. But if it had, it would have been a godsend.

Fuck the anti-vaxxers to hell. I laugh at that idiot in Italy. I hope his next few weeks are fun and interesting for him.

[PufPuf23]

16. Caught chicken pox as an adult too, not good.

Just had turned 34 and in last semester of finishing a MBA at Cal's Haas.

Was feeling bad and had a small blister on upper middle arm.

Was dating a woman who was Ex Dir of a Berkeley Day Care and she figured out what it probably was and may have been an indirect vector as a chicken pox outbreak was occurring in the kids.

Got way sick as had chicken pox blisters literally everywhere; on eyeballs, scalp, soles of feet, mouth, and down throat into my lungs. Phoned Cowell Hospital and said how sick and old I was and that my breathing was bad and they put me in hospital on IV and meds. Said GF, a housemate, and a female friend from school got me out of hospital after two days by saying they would make sure I always had someone with me. After several days was still very sick, the worst had passed, but was extremely uncomfortable with itchy scabs and weakness. The only scar turned out to be that first blister, still prominent 32 years later. Missed two weeks of classes. Went to see Raising Arizona at Grand Lake Theatre and Fenton's Ice Cream in Oakland for a first trip out accompanied by some of the home "nurses", pretty much still in daze. Never recovered the same youthful vigor from prior to catching chicken pox.

[Dave Starsky]

17. That is very similar to my experience, as well.

I didn't have them running down my trachea (that I know of). But they were, like you said, everywhere else on my body, inside and out. It was awful and terrifying.

It was an experience that I honestly wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. UNLESS that enemy is an anti-vaxxer. Then, I not only hope that you get it, but I hope you suffer even 50% of what I suffered when I had it, if there's any chance that you're not too stupid to admit your mistake and change your ways.

[CentralMass]

4. Good.

[MineralMan]

6. Probably RFK, Jr. Should Rethink His Position.

It's a failed one, and it's going to hurt him down the road, if that matters to him.

[CharleyDog]

14. goes to show ya, anyone can be brainwashed. More science education for America, please.

[Hekate]

18. Based on my experience with a close family member, this is like religion & not subject to change...

...based on science.

[Archae]

7. maybe because they decided on the evidence that your beliefs are bullshit, RFK Jr.

Now go back to your usual gig making wild accusations in speeches to anti-vaxx morons.

[Caliman73]

8. I know how he feels.

I am getting the cold shoulder on the chemtrail issue. The administration told me they would look into, appoint me to head up a committee and that we would all be supplied tin foil hats.

Just in case...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I wonder how long it's going to take the Trump White House

to embrace the Flat Earth movement.

[Vinca]

10. It's probably Beto's fault. Beto looks like RFK, Sr., ergo RFK, Jr. and his crazy vaccine theories

are no longer welcome at the king's palace/bordello.

[GaYellowDawg]

12. EVERYONE should turn their back on vaccine skeptics.

They are a bunch of science-denying morons. And unlike Flat Earthers, they present a risk to society.

[yellowcanine]

15. Even a blind pig finds an acorn from time to time.

[X_Digger]

19. Good, you antivaxx nut. (Kennedy, not you brooklynite.) n/t

[Jose Garcia]

20. I'll bet that Jenny McCarthy could get an appointment with Trump