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cryptohamster | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm broadly in favour of vaccines, and the US arming European states (that's the deal for funding your trade deficits). Less so encouraging Isreal to kill more of the 50% of its population it won't give a vote to. That makes Kennedy a hard no for me.

Ofcourse I'm not American, so I have no vote 🤷
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Jonk | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 He's broadly in favor of vaccines too.  Just not the toxic ones.  

Criticizing some modern vaccines is the same as criticizing fast food.  If someone said big macs are bad for you, you would not label them anti-food.
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cryptohamster | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The CHD Fund has actually caused measles outbreaks that have killed kids. And this was prior to Covid.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/measles-outbreak-spurred-by-anti-vaxxers-shuts-down-samoan-government/

I think US-ians can question why they have 3x the number of childhood vaccinations compared to France (IIRC), I don't think there was much point in most people under 40 being vaccinated for Covid (none after Omnicron became dominant), but that's not the message RFK is preaching ...