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Gotta love the logic of telling adults not to get the vaccine because its probably too late and you're already infected, while also telling parents not to give

Gotta love the logic of telling adults not to get the vaccine because its probably too late and you're already infected, while also telling parents not to give it to their kids because it's only for "prostitutes and promiscuous gay men" (per RFK)

Varelion 1y ago
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- jimkleiber 1y ago
  My heart goes out to you and your family :-(
- abustamam 1y ago
  I'm so sorry you and your family are going through that. My condolences, from an internet stranger with family members with cancer as well. I don't condone violence or wish ill upon anyone... But there are certainly some people that I'm just like, fuck that guy. And yeah, fuck RFK.
jl6 1y ago
I believe you are referring to comments made about the hepatitis B vaccine, not HPV.
- perihelions 1y ago
  That's right; that particular HHS Secretary comment was about Hepatitis B. > "“Hepatitis B vaccine was made for prostitutes and for promiscuous gay men,” Kennedy said in an interview on his Children’s Health Defense show in 2022." https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/25/rfk-jr-vaccine-panel-acip-meeting/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/25/rfk-jr-vacc... The WaPo article doesn't bother to refute RFK's lies, but here's /r/medicine responding to them (in the context that's topical this week—RFK ordering the removal of the Hepatitis B vaccine from the children's schedule): > "Let's be even more clear about this. If you contract Hep B in the first year of life, more than 90% develop the chronic form, and the need for liver transplant is much higher.... Worldwide, the second most common route for children under 5 to catch HBV is from other children, and that's not by doing IV drugs or having sex. (First most common is vertical, through mother.)" https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1niml9d/kennedys_vaccine_panel_expected_to_recommend/ https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1niml9d/kennedys_...
lostlogin 1y ago
> it's only for "prostitutes and promiscuous gay men" (per RFK) It’s almost as though he has had a brain injury.

Varelion 1y ago

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jimkleiber 1y ago
My heart goes out to you and your family :-(
abustamam 1y ago
I'm so sorry you and your family are going through that. My condolences, from an internet stranger with family members with cancer as well. I don't condone violence or wish ill upon anyone... But there are certainly some people that I'm just like, fuck that guy. And yeah, fuck RFK.

jl6 1y ago

I believe you are referring to comments made about the hepatitis B vaccine, not HPV.

perihelions 1y ago
That's right; that particular HHS Secretary comment was about Hepatitis B. > "“Hepatitis B vaccine was made for prostitutes and for promiscuous gay men,” Kennedy said in an interview on his Children’s Health Defense show in 2022." https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/25/rfk-jr-vaccine-panel-acip-meeting/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/25/rfk-jr-vacc... The WaPo article doesn't bother to refute RFK's lies, but here's /r/medicine responding to them (in the context that's topical this week—RFK ordering the removal of the Hepatitis B vaccine from the children's schedule): > "Let's be even more clear about this. If you contract Hep B in the first year of life, more than 90% develop the chronic form, and the need for liver transplant is much higher.... Worldwide, the second most common route for children under 5 to catch HBV is from other children, and that's not by doing IV drugs or having sex. (First most common is vertical, through mother.)" https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1niml9d/kennedys_vaccine_panel_expected_to_recommend/ https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1niml9d/kennedys_...

lostlogin 1y ago

> it's only for "prostitutes and promiscuous gay men" (per RFK) It’s almost as though he has had a brain injury.