Calls for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation are growing after two unvaccinated people died from measles in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. There have been 393 confirmed measles cases in 28 counties in Pennsylvania this year, and 2,777 total cases nationally—a 35-year high.

These are the first measles deaths in the United States this year, and in Pennsylvania in more than three decades.

“RFK Jr.’s lies and conspiracy theories are making Marylanders sick,” Democratic Maryland Senator Angela Alsobrooks wrote Tuesday on X. “RFK Jr. must resign or be fired. Vaccines are safe and effective. Listen to your pediatrician.”

“Measles is officially out of control. How many more people need to die before there is a nationwide call for RFK Jr. to resign?” said Shaughnessy Naughton, president of the pro-science organizing group 3.14 Action. “His anti-science, anti-vaccine policies are killing people and infecting a generation of Americans with dangerous vaccine skepticism that will take years to recover from.”

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[–] 59 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Uhh it leaked earlier today that they're trying to revamp the categories of vaccine so they can reduce the number of required vaccines for everyone including kids. Worst timeline. Could not have made me believe this was possible 15 years ago.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago

    20 years ago I was at a university that was studying mRNA bombing as a way to deliver "impossible" vaccines. We were young millennials, still dreaming of a better future. We really thought that 80% of cancers would have effective vaccines by the time we were 50.

    Instead, most of us are repeating that MMR is safe, moving up our first colonoscopies, and exhaustedly reminding our parents not to believe anything they see on the Internet. If this isn't the worst timeline it's an honorable fuckin' mention.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago

    Resigning would be getting off lightly. All these murderous crooks need prosecuting to the full extent of the law.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    A dude who had brain worms, defies all science that indicates that vaccines don’t cause autism, and eats rotting whale carcass isn’t the sort to swallow his pride and quit.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago

    He'll never resign. That would imply that he's capable of admitting to being wrong. And he's too fucking crazy for that. He believes all the bullshit he says.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Lol he killed a shit load of Somali children, two more people ain't gonna mean a thing to him.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Damn, knew my dumb ass should have double checked. Holy fuck that was seven years ago and still nothing happened to the fuck.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    When RFK Jr. was born, the measles vaccine hadn't even been created.

    He described himself as a "measles survivor" because he had a very mild case. I'd like to see him go up to a child who is dying of the measles and try to explain how it's not supposed to be that bad.

    I imagine that people like RFK Jr. are the reason that humans invented the idea of hell. There's literally no punishment that the man could possibly receive that would even put the smallest dent in the amount of misery he's needlessly created.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    What, ivermectin not working? :p

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  • [–] 46 points 2 months ago* (12 children)

    Daily reminder that the billionaire class wants most of us dead. They will not give you health care. They will destroy the CDC. They want pandemics to ravage the masses and reduce our numbers. They want our assets and our wealth and they want you dead. They don't want things to be safe. They don't want cars to be safe. They don't want your drinking water to be safe. They want it all to be as hazardous as possible so that the most number of people die.

    They are happy when bad things happen to you. And they really believe that they're entitled to the planet. This is all working towards their goal.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    But then why simultaneously complain about low birth rates? They seem to want a growing workforce class they can exploit.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    They don't have their robotic workforce and killer drones just yet. towards the billionaire utopia, the billionaires require their killing machine to be up and running at max efficiency, yet they still need babies to fuck, kill, and exploit. It's really a a transitional need, not part of what I would think is the final vision.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Its nonsensical.

    If the billionaire class wanted everyone dead they wouldn't do it with measles

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    You’re assuming these people are competent businessmen who would figure out that killing off the people you’re exploiting for wealth is bad for building further wealth.

    Trump is a prime example of the incompetence. He bankrupted multiple casinos, even with Daddy’s inheritance.

    They’re just simply good at gaming the system by manipulating market shares and real estate, while buying political power to serve their interests. They’re not businessmen at all. They’re grifters.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Trump is a prime example of the incompetence.

    hmm. No.

    He got elected President, twice. He's corrupted over $5B in personal money. He has secured infinite power from SCOTUS. He has the entire Republican party scared of him. He has the entire Democratic party neutered.

    Sounds pretty competent to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    I don’t think it’s off his own intellect, at all. He doesn’t have much intellect to speak of.

    He’s a stooge for the Heritage Foundation, Bibi and Putin. He works off Roy Cohn’s playbook. These guys are great thieves, I’ll concede, but actually running legitimate businesses and succeeding? Nah.

    Trump on his own would be just a narcissistic, dumb, rejected NYC tycoon who bankrupt casinos. Don’t give him that much credit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Just like any investment, they diversify their killing methods. Having a disease wipe out a bunch of people they don't like is a slam dunk for them, easy cheap, blame free, results not guaranteed however. But you're damn sure they're going to leave the door open for any sort of disease to come and do some work for them for cheap. As a billionaire, I would not be interested in doing one big stunt to kill a bunch of people because that won't work out for me.

    They've much preferred the long drawn out slow-burn of disease and poverty. Its not only entertaining and strokes their ego, it's also the best way to get the results they want. They keep plausible deniability for themselves. You can't see the puppet masters at work behind the scenes.

    As plebs we see nothing but natural disasters and natural disease. It's not obvious that we should blame the billionaires at any given point. Who decides when where why and how we should go to war? Do normal people know that they only have a couple selfish psychopathic individuals to blame in reality?

    They have been shown to cause "accidents" (oops a gas tanker blew up on top of the bridge in Detroit, now that real estate I wanted got a lot cheaper! thanks Ghislane!), start wildfires, and any number of insane murderous horrors to get their way. They want all these events that they've caused to look like mysterious natural disasters. I suspect that if there were no more billionaires suddenly, we'd see a lot less crazy shit happen in the world.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Pfff. This asshole is never wrong. It’s just deflect, redirect, butwhatabout, move on to the next “breathing air causes autism” bullshit.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    I love how (some of) his former supporters are all up in arms over this, but still can't see that everyone else in the administration they voted for is just as bad.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Resignation is not enough. Imprisonment for social murder.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Just wait until people sink their teeth into the beef

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    You cannot shame people who are shameless.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure his resignation would help, clearly Trump is more antivaxx than he is and is breathing down his neck to prove vaccines cause autism. Trump would only replace him with someone more radical.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    What about all the assholes besides him that are there, though? I don't think he was the only dumbfuck anti-enlightenment asshole put into power in these critical government positions.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Let's settle down guys, it's not like there a safe and proven vaccine that's available that the administration had simply been telling people wasn't necessary....

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    Just last week I was looking at the measles stats for 2026 and thought to myself, "huh, no deaths yet." And here we are.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Robert roadkill penis eater is not qualified for the job he is employed at, or any other job for that matter.

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    Calls you say? That sounds official and serious.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Let them drink bleach

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    2? Rookie numbers. 2 don't even register for these morons. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    How old were these people?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I looked around at other sources and they’re specifically not releasing info on the people who died due to privacy concerns. I think they may have been children.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I mean that seems kinda important, don't it? If they're adults then they'd likely be unrelated to any changes in vaccine disinformation.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    they'd likely be unrelated to any changes in vaccine disinformation

    Not necessarily true. If they were vulnerable adults for whom the vaccination had little/no effect or who were immunosuppressed, for whatever reason, herd immunity amongst the younger population would have protected them. Now it doesn't, thanks to the anti-vaxxer in chief.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    For every two measles deaths, more boils pop on rfkjr's surface area and her gains armor points but grows more orange and gets softer in the middle

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