Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
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Via: john-russell • 2 weeks ago • 22 commentsBy: Teddy Rosenbluth (nytimes)
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By Teddy Rosenbluth
Published March 10, 2025Updated March 11, 2025, 8:25 a.m. ET
In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on fringe theories about prevention and treatments.
He issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research.
He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research.
He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved "almost miraculous and instantaneous" recoveries with steroids or antibiotics.
The worsening measles outbreak, which has largely spread through a Mennonite community in Gaines County, has infected nearly 200 people and killed a child, the first such death in the United States in 10 years.
Another suspected measles death has been reported in New Mexico, where cases have recently increased in a county that borders Gaines County.
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Another mentally challenged member of the Trump cabinet.
You have to be a TDS suffering fool or a complete fucking moron to think that poor diet and health doesn't make you more susceptible to disease like Measles or even the common cold. I'm sure a reporter for the NY slimes qualifies as both.
No. Poor diet and health can make the effects of diseases like measles worse, but it does not make them any more contagious than they already are.
Instead of telling people to get vaccinated against measles he is downplaying it and promoting herd immunity.
He is a menace to our health outlook.
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What happened to their body their choice? or does that only apply to murdering the unborn?
Pregnancy in neither a disease nor a risk to public health...
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Yet most, if not all, insurance companies pay for prenatal and postnatal care as well as the actual birth. To me, this seems like it established the definition.
And? Insurance covers immunizations too...
You said that "Pregnancy in (sic) neither a disease nor a risk to public health". Why does insurance cover it?
Why does insurance cover car wrecks or workplace injuries?
Why ask impertinent irrelevant questions you already know?
Answer the question please..........thanks.
And since when did car wrecks or workplace injuries have anything to do with health care coverage.
If they lock themselves away as soon as they catch it, then sure. But instead they are out and about spreading the disease to everyone in range.
It’s not simply “disease insurance” or “risk to public health insurance.” It’s “health insurance.” And like so many things in life, healthcare is multifaceted and complex. Sometimes, it involves repairing body parts, sometimes it treats disease, and sometimes it prevents greater problems that could arise.
As is the case with a pregnancy.
That's why most health insurance covers birth control
People who think the term 'TDS' applies to anyone but trump supporters themselves are the fools and complete morons.
The idea that an idiotic, dictator-loving, egomaniacal tyrant and traitor to the Republic should have any power at all instead of rotting in prison for his little coup attempt is what's fucking deranged.
Like WTF are you even going on about? How is this political ? The science of vaccines doesn’t care who you voted for.
What makes you think liberals don’t like to be healthy or have a good diet? Can you cite to evidence of someone saying that a healthy body and diet doesn’t support the immune system?
OK, now that we have that bullshit out of the way, are you suggesting that we should rely on diet to protect us from Measles? Do you believe that the many millions of people who suffered from - or were killed by - Measles didn’t have a healthy diet?
Which do you think is more powerful protection from Measles? Vaccines or Veggies?
Is this really the best trmp could do? Shouldn't there be somebody directing that agency that has some knowledge of science?
Herd immunity is achieved thru vaccination. Sure, let your kids get infected and they may end up blind or worse, dead.
"He issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one."
Bobby’s next potential cure will be tapping your head while rubbing your belly … and if that doesn’t work try doing it while hopping on one foot.