RFK Jr. promised. He promised! Boy I didn’t see that one coming…
Fuck these guys. I hope it doesn’t come to it but if bird flu becomes a real problem for humans we are so very fucked with these dipshits in charge. It’s just one big circle jerk - people put in positions of power to own the libs and do performative bullshit while fElon is ransacking the place.
They don’t give a fuck about the country.
Flu is no laughing matter. My 5yo was down for 5 days…
It means that Republican voters are going to shrink
It means medically vulnerable people are going to “shrink”. The flu doesn’t care how you voted.
True but hopefully medically vulnerable people will remember to get their flu vaccine without a campaign to remind them.
I never needed a campaign to remind me…
There are people who can’t get the vaccine due to allergies, or for whom the vaccine is ineffective due to underlying health conditions or medications that they have to be on to not die. And sometimes a vaccine just plain doesn’t work.
More flu circulating in the community means more chances for them to die.
Exactly. I have a friend undergoing treatment for lymphoma. Part of the bone marrow replacement process is to completely suppress the immune system. She isolated just like so many did during covid, and once this treatment is complete she’ll need to start re-taking all the various vaccines again so that her immune system re-learns from them.
No. There are tons of people who require others to get vaccinated and rely upon herd immunity.
Good point.
Although in fairness, it’s not republicans, it’s magats. Traditional republicans are people I strongly disagree with but they’re not dumb: they will get vaccinated. The magats though, that’s a different story.
They want us dead
Raisinhead isn’t gonna stop me from having my kids protected from covid or the flu. I’ll take a day trip to Canada if we have to.
Fucking jackass.
He is, though, because the real protection is in herd immunity, not just your individual children being vaccinated themselves.
That’s the infuriating thing. These assholes are hellbent on killing so many Americans. They are happy to kill others for their beliefs in how things work.
When do we all get our triple steroid shots
All this link says is he halted the ADVERTISING campaign. Not anything else. Yet.
That in itself is way beyond the pale.
Incentivizing people to get vaccinated is just as important as the shot itself. It’s not nothing.
Hell, even I, a staunch supporter of vaccines, who religiously gets the flu shot every year, sometimes forget to ask my doctor if it’s available come autumn.
You’re not wrong I just felt it was a little clickbaity
I mean that’s still pretty big. Why did the advertising campaign exist… to remind and encourage people to get flu shots, I’d assume they started doing that because… it helped with that. So what’s the expected effect of canceling the campaign, Less people getting vaccinated, and more people dying and going into the hospital due to either themselves chosing not to, or being unable to do so, and herd immunity being less.
I mean, unless they actively go in and take those things off the schedule, my “mychart” tells me what I’m due for. Or, as someone that can read the calendar, I can figure out that each fall if I plan to get a flu shot, that’s the time to do it.
Worst case scenario, we can go off of Canada’s vaccination schedule. Assuming, of course, RFK doesn’t ban the actual vaccines themselves. Then things become more difficult.
“Ey yo, bro, I got the flu vaccine here, Winter 2027 strain, 100% pure, you buyin’?”
