Brings so much needless sadness. Unfortunately this current administration is nothing but ignorance.

This is the first time I ever alerted on a post to find it already gone when I came back from sending the alert. Congrats to whoever beat me to alerting on it, and to MIRT for the quick ban. That kind of antivaxx claptrap is not welcome here at DU.

alert, and notifying MIRTS.

Another dark triad.

Vaccinations work.....shame on those who fight them.

contracted measles. .the vaccine not given til 1 year. The child developed a rare and ulttimately fatal complication that killed her ten years later. The parents were neither careless nor ignorant.

but the parents around her... I would say they contributed to her daughter's death by not vaccinating their children. They, in turn, exposed a baby who was too young to vaccinate. And this is what's happening today in America with Measles parties and chickenpox parties and such. The ignorance and stupidity is too much to bear sometimes. I had both diseases as a kid... What's the saying... I was born so long ago.... (LOL) But I remember neither of those two illnesses being anything I'd wish on my or anyone else's child. It was enough I had to go through them. And I pity my poor mom... she had three kids... and when one came down, it was a sure bet that at least one if not both of the other kids would, too. And Mom kept us up on all vaccinations available to us at the time.

I remember when my brother and I came down with chicken pox. My baby sister did, too, of course. She also developed scarlet fever and whooping cough. I bless those who persevere in their studies to vaccinate against these childhood diseases. And those who develop vaccines for us adults, too... like those of us who had chicken pox as kids, now coming down with shingles. After one mild case of shingles on the left side of my face and body, I swore I'd get vaccinated when it was released even if I had to pay for it myself. I never wanted to go through that kind of pain again!

They would not only NEVER forget it but become the world's activists against these anti-vaxxers. I have seen one very young child die, and I can assure you I won't forget it--nor their equally grief-stricken and guilt-overwhelmed parents' faces

It would be disrespectful to the families to post videos of any of these children, but even nearly all physicians today have never seen a case. Rapidly changing, but had they only seen it for themselves, they too would not have acquiesced to their "Doctor Google" adamant patients who refused vaccines. The pediatricians I respect told their vaccine-refusing parents (sans any medical contraindication for their child) to go elsewhere.

They will never get them back. And most will never get over their foolish choice.

He was born in 1954 and would have been 16 when the MMR vaccine was released. A large percentage of us baby boomers had measles long before we reached that age. I wouldn't be surprised if he had a mild case as a child, hence his airy dismissal of measles as a "minor, harmless" disease.

Antivaxxers are among my most unfavorite people ever. They're right up (down?) there with white supremacists, homophobes, and transphobes in my book.

My mom said I had it as a baby, less than a year old. I also had mumps before my first birthday. Haven't heard of anyone getting mumps for a long, long time.

I remember some cases at my school when I was a kid, but it skipped me. I haven't heard of anyone I know having it since then. I assume it must be less contagious than measles and rubella, because relatively few kids seemed to catch it, even back then.

I had measles when I was 7 and rubella when I was 14, during what I later learned was a major nationwide epidemic during which 20,000 children were born with serious heart, hearing, and vision problems related to rubella exposure in utero. It's almost always a very mild disease when kids or aduIts get it but can be catastrophic when contacted by pregnant mothers. I'm glad those days are over and really hope antivaxxers dont manage to bring them back.

... his car that requires him to read this before he can turn his ignition key and chisel it on his grave stone.

He’s nothing but an accomplice.

Ask the mothers of 83 dead kids in Samoa. He's not going to let dead kids get in the way of his crackpot theories.
https://www.protectourcare.org/fact-check-rfk-jr-denies-deadly-role-in-samoa-measles-outbreak/

People who do not vaccinate their children are poorly informed and are putting their children at risk

one of the first things they did was go get vaccinated. Their parents apparently were not happy with them.
This story is a few years old, but he was apparently one of several young unvaxxed adults who went and got vaccinated.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/01/teens-breaking-away-anti-vaxxer-family

...somewhere WARM, sometime SOON...

The vaccine was generally not given til one year of age. There was a measles outbreak, thanks to that asshole wakefield. The child contracted a rare side effect that killed her just before she turned 11. HER parents were not to blame.

People are crazy not to get their kids a vaccine for it.

This is horrifying.

... is not a good person. His morbid fascination with dead wildlife not withstanding, including that poor worm that was poisoned by munching on Kennedy's diseased brain; he apparently has a long history of being a pathological contrarian.
I would posit that he couldn't bear living in the shadow of his father, so he sunk into more and more destructive beliefs and behavior so at least he'd get noticed for something. Oh, he got noticed alright, but not for anything good.
Now, as head of Health and Human Services, he is in a position to inflict irreparable harm on millions, but especially on those gullible enough, or just plain stupid enough, to believe his lies. But I don't think he does it out of stupidity; I think he does it out of sheer malice, because he likes to hurt people for not idolizing him as millions did for his father. He's Jim Jones Lite, but his Kool Ade is a bushel of bullshit wrapped in a pretty ribbon of faux medical "science".
Kennedy is an evil sonofabitch who has to be exposed as the malevolent fraud he is.

And so defensive. He's as gossamer-skinned as Trump.

And so very sorry for this family 😔

Then after, he should be shot. Then drowned.

Let nobody forget, he did this vile injustice FOR MONEY.

https://www.immunize.org/clinical/vaccine-confidence/topic/mmr-vaccine/bmj-deer-mmr-wakefield/#:~:text=Now%20author%20Brian%20Deer%20follows,America%20from%20his%20now%2Ddiscredited%20allegations.

I may not remember much from the one and only statistics class I suffered thru and detested, but I certainly remember that you cannot draw any valid conclusions from an N of 12.