Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he recognizes the serious impact of the ongoing measles epidemic in Texas – in which a child died recently – and said the government is providing resources, including protective vaccines.

“Ending the measles outbreak is a top priority for me and my extraordinary team,” Kennedy – an avowed anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who for years has sown doubts about the safety and efficacy of vaccines – said in a post on X.

Kennedy said his federal Department of Health and Human Services would send Texas 2,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine – typically meant to be given to children in a series of two shots at 12 to 15 months old as well as between the ages of four and six years old – through its immunization program.

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    There’s no real comparison between the US and Palestine. That place has been a war zone on and off for decades. I can prob count on one hand how many major attacks there have been on US soil from foreign powers since the revolutionary war.

    The thing you’re implying would mean that US military would start gunning down its own citizens en masse. That’s never happened and I don’t see that happening, even with the crazy shit going on.

    When it comes to vaccines… what are we supposed to do with those idiots beyond banning them from being in certain public places? And that said - would you want everyone walking around marked in some sort of way to identify that? It’s unfortunate, but people have the right to be morons

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      You are shifting the goal posts. My point is simply that the delusion of an armed insurrection against the government is naive in the extreme. It will never play out the way you imply by saying “the crazy Nazis are in charge so don’t give them a monopoly on force”. They already have the monopoly on the only force that matters in any realistic internal conflict scenario.

      As for vaccines: your right to be a moron stops at the point where it endangers others. Your right to be an idiot does not supersede my right to life. That is a well understood principal in US law. Are you allowed to skip the vaccine? Sure. But I’m allowed to require you show proof of vaccination before letting you on my private property, including my place of business. And the same goes for public property too. The metal detectors used to keep guns out of government buildings is proof of this reality

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        I ain’t shifting goal posts, I’m just talking about reality. Maybe you need to spend a bit more time in the real world

        And for the record, I don’t really think any of these guys are Nazis. That’s a buzzword that’s made us liberals look like fools. They’re wannabe-Nazis at the most.

        And yes, private businesses can do whatever they want as to that. That’s almost always been a thing

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          “Spend more time in the real world”? Fuckin-a that is some pompous, condescending bullshit. You have no idea who the fuck I am or what I’ve experienced.

          Done now. You’ve made it incredibly clear exactly what type of person you are

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            Bruh you’re literally on here implying the US military is going to start gunning down its own citizens and that we’re anything like the situation in Palestine lol

            Good talk

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              Your reading comprehension apparently sucks. If that’s what you took away from my comments you never bothered to look past the keywords

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                  Excuse me for literally typing on my phone from a plane and missing a typo. That’s some weak ground you’re standing on