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.
Right, so you’re going to cut all the programs that give poorer people access to said healthy food and medical care, and then allow the state programs that do that to be refunded, and take it juuuuust a step further by being a fucking idiot and saying measles doesn’t affect healthy people? May the universe hit you with the best of what is out there to humble your old stupid ass, you POS.