The RFK Jr. Thread

[Jarhyn]

‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’

Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.

www.theatlantic.com

Over coffee at a Starbucks just outside Austin, Texas, Del Bigtree told me he wants his teenage son to catch polio. Measles, too. He’s considered driving his unvaccinated family to South Carolina, which is in the midst of a historic outbreak, so that they can all be exposed. He prefers pertussis—whooping cough—to the pertussis vaccine, which he later described to me as a “crime against children.” It’s not the diseases that Americans should be afraid of, Bigtree insists: It’s the shots that stop them.

See, these are exactly the sort of people who I was talking about using some manner of force against based on their disagreement with reality.

Some people do not deserve children, particularly those who expose them to crippling and debilitating diseases with lifelong consequences because they fear modern science.

You just hate people who disagree with you, don't you???111???

No, I hate the mistreatment of children.

But I get the reference