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They believe the RFK Jr nonsense. Measles was almost wiped out in the United States, then the anti-vaxxer nonsense rose up. In Samoa measles vaccine skepticism resulted in deaths of children.

RFK often quotes a paper by Anthony Fauci that notes that most deaths during the Spanish flu epidemic was caused by bacterial pneumonia. He suggests that vaccines would not have helped during that epidemic. This nonsense ignores the fact that the virus weakened the lungs of those who died. A vaccine would have prevented the virus from weakening the lungs. His solution would be to wait and treat the pneumonia with antibiotics. He wants Big Pharma to make money off antibiotics not vaccines.

Another lunacy is RFK blaming the Spanish flu on a Kansas lab experimenting with bacterial meningitis. He confuses a bacteria with a virus.

https://youtu.be/rNA1Y3qTpuE

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No doubt RFKJ will be trotted out in Loury's Crank Of The Week show in short order.

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Lol.

The Stanford MD economist did admit “Sometimes I’m right, sometimes I’m wrong”. Sly Stone song worm began playing.

I don’t mind having an opinion that differs from Faux News, Bill Maher, Russell Brand, and the medical cherry-picker Dr John Campbell.

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