RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval
www.nytimes.com
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 hours ago

    Let’s see if even Mitch McConnell would confirm this guy given that he had polio. Don’t have much faith though.

  • Marleyinoc@lemmy.world
    15·
    9 hours ago

    Kennedy is an imminent threat to the health and safety of our children. I wish the worm would finish the job.

  • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    15·
    10 hours ago

    My spanish teacher in middle school had a limp from polio in her childhood and kids would snicker about it behind her back. We have no concept of what polio is anymore

  • Yodan@lemm.eeEnglish
    79·
    17 hours ago

    What the fuck my grandpa had a skinny leg and a hole in his back from medical tubes due to polio as a kid, this shit is no joke

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      36·
      16 hours ago

      Seriously. I’ve said this before here, but travel somewhere the polio vaccine wasn’t widely available. The amount of suffering via deformity and impacted development it causes is frightening.

  • thr0wmeaway@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    73·
    17 hours ago

    You’d think they’re already murdering enough of us with the expensive/delayed/denied healthcare, the starvation wages, the cruel for-profit prisons, the cops, and the refusal to give even emergency abortions…but nope…they want to murder more of us.

    #FreeLuigi

  • voracitude@lemmy.world
    1311·
    19 hours ago

    Buckle up for the next NYT headline:

    RFK Jr is the real vaccination-class hero, not experienced nurses and doctors and hundreds of years of medical science

    • mriguy@lemmy.world
      46·
      19 hours ago

      “RFK Jr: an iconoclast set to shake up a complacent public health establishment.”

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
        421·
        19 hours ago

        “If progressives truly want to bring the surge of polio deaths in the United States to an end they will have to learn to be nicer to our wealthy friends.”

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
    391·
    16 hours ago

    Fuck this idiot piece of shit. Hasn’t even started and I’m so sick of this nation again.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      71·
      11 hours ago

      Seriously. I’m going to be the most bitter and continuously angry person you’ve ever met by the end of this four years, and I’m not looking forward to it one bit.

      Make no mistake though, I’m going to be so free with “aren’t you glad this is what you voted for” to magas in my family and at work that the schadenfreude alone will be enough to power a small city.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
        3·
        10 hours ago

        Don’t worry, they may only get two years, but the damage they can deal will probably last the rest of your life. And if you’re transgender, the rest of your life might even be done before the two years are up.

    • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
      41·
      10 hours ago

      I feel like my “being able to tolerate living in a nation led by imbeciles” meter had barely started refilling this past four years. I think I needed 16 or so for something close to a full recharge. I’m prepared to reach new lows.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        12 hours ago

        This is the kind of argument you see from the dipshit vaccine denialists, though. But typically, they like to credit modern septic systems/clean water for a lot of things.

        I think it’s really only maybe (younger) boomers and on down that could make the absolutely ridiculous arguments the vaccine denialists make, though. Most of the older people - esp Greatest Generation, but also older boomers, most likely - knew better from having seen children die/suffer from awful diseases.

        But yeah, starting with Gen X and on down - the dumbassery around vaccines has slowly started taking off and seems to be getting worse as it goes…

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
    75·
    19 hours ago

    My dads best friend had polio as a child. He still found a wife and had two wonderful children and a fulfilled life. Just because your legs are crippled, you need leg braces, special shoes and a wheelchair doesn’t mean you can’t have a great life!

    /s

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    532·
    16 hours ago

    This is a world-laughs-at-you, history-book-making, memes-for-a-century level headline.

    America thinks it’s The Federation but really it’s the result of a torrid affair between the Ferengi and the SamaritansPakleds.

    Have a nice day, America. This guy was clearly out of reach.

    Edit: goofed