Louisiana officially ends mass vaccinations as RFK Jr. comes to power

Staff reported a pullback from vaccines late last year, but nothing was in writing.

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[hillspuck]

As much as I hate him being chosen, RFK Jr. is only a symptom of this disease rather than the cause. It's a shitshow that's happening up and down the chain. I think at this point the only way it's going to change is a FAFO that's going to hurt a lot of people. I really expect it to happen, but it might take 10-20 years. And it's mostly going to hurt the people who didn't actually make the decisions, so any schadenfreude is misplaced.

 

[GenocideOwl]

These people are nothing short of a death cult that worships money above everything

 

[blazeoptimus]

And so it begins

 

[AusPeter]

Well that helps narrow down any vacation ideas I might have had!

 

[Mute999]

Imagine such a low-life becoming Surgeon General. This man should not even have a license.
Anyone with at least half a brain currently living there and reasonably able to move out of the state, do so now before it is too late.

 

[MosquitoBait]

Dear death cult, please hurry up and die. We neither need nor want your continued presence in this plane.

 

[AusPeter]

These people are nothing short of a death cult that worships money above everything

The fact that they won't promote lifesaving vaccines makes them a literal death cult.

 

[anonymouschicken]

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."

 

[paulh2oman]

Hey, less citizens to take care of helps keep the budget down!

 

[canwaf]

As much as I hate him being chosen, RFK Jr. is only a symptom of this disease rather than the cause. It's a shitshow that's happening up and down the chain. I think at this point the only way it's going to change is a FAFO that's going to hurt a lot of people. I really expect it to happen, but it might take 10-20 years. And it's mostly going to hurt the people who didn't actually make the decisions, so any schadenfreude is misplaced.

There’s FAFO, and then there’s not being able to travel internationally. If it gets much worse, Europe might decide vaccination passports will be required.

It’s all very sad, and looking across the pond from the UK we also feel very confused and angry.

 

[sandragen]

It's a bit scary watching an empire collapse in real time.

 

[DarthSlack]

As much as I hate him being chosen, RFK Jr. is only a symptom of this disease rather than the cause. It's a shitshow that's happening up and down the chain. I think at this point the only way it's going to change is a FAFO that's going to hurt a lot of people. I really expect it to happen, but it might take 10-20 years. And it's mostly going to hurt the people who didn't actually make the decisions, so any schadenfreude is misplaced.

Hard disagree. RFK is taking it in new and horrific directions. He's personally profiting from the anti-vax movement, something that the shitbags in the Senate were too spineless to address. If he's a symptom, he's a metastases.

 

[Tman2906]

The deep south not a place you want to be.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

When do you guys start fighting back? 'Cause, you know...

 

[Emon]

Those brain worms never stood a chance against RFK Jr

 

[Tman2906]

It's a bit scary watching an empire collapse in real time.

People have (wrongly) assumed that the US “civilization” could never collapse. The other false concept they cling to is the idea that humans would never go extinct. It is a mental block. I’ve casually surveyed people on both questions - even before IQ47 came on the scene.

 

[Tman2906]

When do you guys start fighting back? 'Cause, you know...

If i were you, I’d just nuke us and be done with it; move along.

 

[jonah]

So they’re objecting to people trying to encourage flu shots?

Christ, these people are morons.

 

[shawnce]

If it didn’t result in a huge population of folks that find themselves living in this situation by no choice of their own… I would fully support healthcare providers and insurers to just leave the state.

 

[HiroTheProtagonist]

So they’re objecting to people trying to encourage flu shots?

Christ, these people are morons.

I forget if it was Louisiana or Mississippi, but there was some election a while back where the main attack of the winning candidate was "my opponent actually believes in the theory of evolution!"

Americans may not be the sharpest bulbs on the Chanukah tree, but the folks of the delta really manage to make the rest look like geniuses.

 

[Chmilz]

When do you guys start fighting back? 'Cause, you know...

From an outsider's viewpoint it sure as heck looks like this is what they fought for.

 

[Emon]

"my opponent actually believes in the theory of evolution!"

"Why do liberals always call us stupid?"

 

[Znomit]

I remember when travelling to South America it was mandatory to get vaccinated for a few rare diseases (yellow fever being one). I assume as vaccination rates drop further US citizens wanting to travel to the free world will need to get their vaccinations updated.

 

[hillspuck]

Hard disagree. RFK is taking it in new and horrific directions. He's personally profiting from the anti-vax movement, something that the shitbags in the Senate were too spineless to address. If he's a symptom, he's a metastases.

But if there weren't this widespread anti-vax support up and down the chain for years (and not just from the right, unfortunately, even though it is predominantly), he would never have been able to get enough votes for confirmation. Yes, he will make it worse. As will all those other people like in the example of Louisiana in the article. He's not the head of the snake. He's just another snake.

 

[thelee]

I think at this point the only way it's going to change is a FAFO that's going to hurt a lot of people.

i don't think FAFO is sufficient anymore. i would've thought 1.2m COVID-related deaths in the US (plus more long-term sickness) would've been it, but instead it emboldened anti-vaxxers.

i don't know our way back or out of this mess.

 

[theSeb]

Thoughts and prayers, USA

 

[Bernardo Verda]

Where this is coming from?
The brain worm guy doesn't believe in germ theory?

https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/understanding-rfk-jr?r=272lq3&triedRedirect=true

 

[Bernardo Verda]

I never imagined things could get this stupid.
(at least, not in a "developed" country).


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV3uAR2u3WE

 

[Yep It's Me]

Looks like the schedule for the next 100-year pandemic is being moved up a notch or two.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

From an outsider's viewpoint it sure as heck looks like this is what they fought for.

Well, roughly a smidge over a third voted for, a smidge under a third voted against, and a third decided to sit this fascist dictatorship out and maybe they'll do something about the next one. Maybe.

At least Trump voters were honest about who they were. The apathetic shit stains who enabled this by not voting or protest voting own this. The pain, suffering and death that is now happening globally is on their hands.

 

[rbirling]

If i were you, I’d just nuke us and be done with it; move along.

It's the only way to be sure....

 

[Don Reba]

Banning parasitic worm treatments comes next.

 

[Arstotzka]

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

[1] Newsweek: “A Cult of Ignorance” by Isaac Asimov, January 21, 1980

 

[電気人]

I remember when travelling to South America it was mandatory to get vaccinated for a few rare diseases (yellow fever being one). I assume as vaccination rates drop further US citizens wanting to travel to the free world will need to get their vaccinations updated.

That's assuming the kind of people who are anti-vaccine would be the type who actually want to travel outside of the states

 

[Bernardo Verda]

There’s FAFO, and then there’s not being able to travel internationally. If it gets much worse, Europe might decide vaccination passports will be required.

It’s all very sad, and looking across the pond from the UK we also feel very confused and angry.

And they'll need to take special measures to insure the vaccination certificates are genuine and trustworthy.

 

[Eurynom0s]

If only this would only affect Louisiana. Can we build a wall around them and make them pay for it?

 

[seitojack]

That did not take very long. It's a good thing that viruses respect the state lines... /s

 

[anon11472]

i don't think FAFO is sufficient anymore. i would've thought 1.2m COVID-related deaths in the US (plus more long-term sickness) would've been it, but instead it emboldened anti-vaxxers.

i don't know our way back or out of this mess.

Something I reflected on during the peak of covid deaths is that as a society we are quite good at disposing of dead bodies. Unless you're working at a hospital, EMT, police/fire, mortuary, etc most people do not see a dead body except at a funeral. Even if you're a patient within a hospital they really try to not let you see that.

So 1.2M people die from covid and covid-related complications and honestly we did such a good job keeping death out of sight that truly the majority of people didn't "see" it. They were aware of it in the sense that a friend's grandma passed or a prominent celebrity. But the scale and scope was lost on most.

We lost 3x the number of US citizens to covid that we did to WWII. And conveniently the US population has not quite tripled since '41. So it's fair to say we lost a world war's worth of people inside our own borders...

...and people can say, "I didn't see it, so it didn't happen," or, "What's the big deal?"

 

[Znomit]

That's assuming the kind of people who are anti-vaccine would be the type who actually want to travel outside of the states

Thinking more, any country trying to impose mandatory vaccination requirements on travelling Trumpensteinians would get hit with trade tariffs. Measles for milk is a good deal in this climate I guess.