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Jim's avatar

Absurd. Fear, fear, fear fear…how come no one is screeching about 450,000 annual deaths from hospital errors or 19,000 deaths this year from flu? Gee,one person died from measles. Terrifying. A.I. reports a fatality rate of 1 in 2000. Horrors.

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Megan Macomber's avatar

Terrorists of the World! C'mon down! DOGE's erasure of institutional memory means that the polio vaccination effort that netted us Bin Laden's location (so Obama could, you know, kill him) will end. You're home free!

We don't care now! Our so-called POTUS, more like PUTZ amirite?, he's lost too many marbles to grasp simple cause 'n' effect. Musk thinks he's immortal. He's a moron too. Plus, you terrorists always hit the little people, so have at it!

You might even get Vance elected as a "War President"! Meritocracy for all!

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Cathy Phillips's avatar

Doctor of Death you mean

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Marla's avatar

Oh, and the funds to fight Ebola were not restored. The DOGE idiots said they were, but they were not. They lied about that, too.

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Marla's avatar

So...what's RFK's measles status? Did he have the actual illness (which confers lifetime immunity)? Or was he vaxxed (which requires periodic boosters, pending blood titration, to check for virus levels)? If he would ordinarily require a booster, he should forego and expose himself to the measles virus, since it's no big deal and, welp, measles happen, amirite?

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

RFKJ's actual message: "Hey, we have measles outbreaks every year . . . what do you want *us* (the Department of Health and Human Services) to do about it?"

(Trump didn't care that half a million MAGA dopes died of COVID, so HE sure as shit doesn't care about a bunch of kids who aren't even old enough to buy his merch.)

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"M"'s avatar

Especially since he, RFK, and Rupert Murdoch made sure they got their vaccines AND ALSO MAKE SURE THEIR KIDS GOT THEIRS

“My omelette is a little too expensive and now we’re part of the axis powers.” - say the people who voted for this even though now they're pretending they didn't

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Stephanie's avatar

It's 146 cases now. Also, Measles in KY and NJ.

TX is reporting a case of Rubella in San Antonio as well.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

People will die. Unfortunately, not the right ones.

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Lionel Hutz's avatar

All of this just because the WHO refused to rename COVID "Chink Flu, sponsored by the Gulf of America" on Trump's orders.

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Lionel Hutz's avatar

Listen, if a few kids have to die so that we can preserve our precious bodily fluids from being putrefied by a bunch of woke libs and their "vaccines' that they develop at their pedophilic pizza parties, can't we all agree that it is worth it?

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Samantha's avatar

The kid was probably given the MMR. The death was linked to a marketing campaign for it that led to inappropriate care, stress and treatment by people with no experience with this diagnosis.

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Lionel Hutz's avatar

Or, it could be that he had idiot parents in Texas who believe the propaganda about vaccines passed on by fascist.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

What part of "unvaccinated" did you not get?

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Samantha's avatar

They might still call it "unvaccinated" if the give them MMR because they have some definitions of how long afterwards and how many doses to classify someone as "vaccinated."

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beb's avatar

We should just fire the entire Cabinet. They are all worthless gits and think of all the money we'd save.

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Bel-Ami's avatar

I never thought I would be grateful NOT to have grandchildren......

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Mildred Downey Broxon's avatar

I did. And am.

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Sgt JMK's avatar

OMFG I hate these fascist assholes with the heat of a million suns.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

“𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘦,” 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘋𝘳. 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘒𝘺𝘰𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘪, 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳, “𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘵.”

So it all works out! Admit it, Trump is just a fucking genius.

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Steve Swann's avatar

Ethel dropped him on his head decades ago.

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Liminal's avatar

> "the rationale is that the cuts will only affect people in shithole countries"

Or as another famous American* said, "better they should die and reduce the surplus population"

*This is not a joke. Scrooge may have lived in Victorian England but he was as American at heart as anyone. Before the ghosts and all

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

We started out being like Englishmen. Then we gradually (sometimes not so gradually) got worse.

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Liminal's avatar

In the 60s and 70s, when the world was finally breaking free of colonialism, we somehow came in on Team Colonial

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

And now we're on Team Kleptocratic Dictator.

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