Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR
  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    6 days ago

    Now imagine if instead of recommending vaccination during an outbreak, it was recommended before anything happened. Crazy thought, I know. Only way this could have happened is by not having a complete moron obsessed with his countless delusions as the fucking head of the health department of one of the largest country in the world, is all.

    • Napster153@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      6 days ago

      Capitalism when the plague outbreak shatters an economy and all the money you piled on isn’t going to save you from sickness that doesn’t give a damn.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    501·
    7 days ago

    The sad thing is that millions of people have actually been looking to him for medical advice, which is like taking wardrobe and makeup advice from Ronald McDonald.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    7 days ago

    “I lost my virginity to an all metal toilet in Guam. It was Robert Downey Sr’s 43rd birthday party, I was bill cosby’s +1 and we were celebrating at the corporate training restaurant for Cici’s pizza. The toilet penetrated me with the confidence of an Olympic fencing champion and I saw the face of god. They served corn dogs, but reverse what you’re picturing.”

    -RFK Jr., 12 years old, mumblng to himself and convulsing before passing out in a ditch after snorting the entire contents of a full size fire extinguisher

  • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
    291·
    7 days ago

    He should be personally, criminally, liable for the deaths and suffering caused by his policies. So should leadership that supported him.

  • aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    22·
    7 days ago

    Imagine one of the dumbest persons on earth who is also a well known antivax telling you that you have to get some vaccines… and yet many people will still firmly oppose… We do live in the dumbest timeline.

    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      Not really; or rather, they’ve been doing that since day 1. Both Mr. Worm-In-My-Brain and Mr. Orange Baby. In the age of governing through social media there’s no such thing as consistency anymore.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Yeah social media is all about projecting vibes and knowing no one will bother to put any effort into finding any facts. And people are so saturated with information they won’t remember that you’re saying the exact opposite thing from what you said last week. With social media facts finding just slows you down, you win by producing more content, so you have an edge if you ignore the facts.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      7 days ago

      Seriously insane anti-intellectualist culture were one’s correctness is measured by how confident and loud one proclaims one’s “facts” and how famous one is, rather than by being or not an expert in an applicable domain.

      You see that shit even amongst people who think they’re leftwing - notice the frequent parroting of some shit or other said by showbiz celebrities as long as it aligns with one’s beliefs. (Sorry but an Acting Professional isn’t really an authoritative source for jack shit anything outside their expert domain in showbiz, even if one agrees with what they say, hence their words on other subjects should be treated as having the same weight as those of any other random non-expert).

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      The first phase was the “fuck around and find out”-phase.

      Well, the fucked around and are probably in full damage control now

    • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Their musician should just play the guitar and stay out of politics, so I can politicise their songs in support of his enemies and tell him he doesn’t understand their music.