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Kennedy said in a social post the measles deaths in Pennsylvania "may even have been altogether fabricated." (www.pbs.org)

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Pennsylvania officials this week reported that two unvaccinated residents died after being infected with measles, with Gov. Josh Shapiro stressing that vaccinations could have averted the deaths.

But the announcement quickly came under fire, as a clash erupted between Shapiro, a vaccine-promoting Democrat, and U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Trump administration appointee with a history of raising alarms about established vaccines. Kennedy said in a social post the deaths "may even have been altogether fabricated."

Kennedy's attack echoed statements he made last year, when three measles-related deaths were recorded. Kennedy questioned whether one of the children who died was killed by measles.

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You and me both. There were still plenty problems. But at least there were one or two things you could be proud of. As opposed to..... nothing.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The US was never a great country by any stretch of the imagination. But it was headed in the right direction - slowly. There was hope. Now hope is gone: the country is officially as dumb as a sack of bricks and getting dumber by the minute. And most people don't know that, but dumb ends with a B...

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep. Being unable to treat people different from themselves as animals under the law, really broke a lot of people. So obsessed with continuing it through any loopholes or systems they could implement. It cost us the labor movement and Manufacturing. So much science and culture as well. Finally even our ability just to maintain the lives we've had. All so a few ignorant insecure people with no personal achievements of their own to be proud in. Can take pride simply in the conditions of their birth.

So normalized and accepted. That a lot of culture was Rewritten and woven into it. It's why despite living in the midwest I despise most modern country music. Suburbanite sock puppets pretending and singing about thank god they're a country boy, or how good the country is, or how great it is to be from the country. Unvarnished pure processed jingoism. And nobody bats an eye.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I refuse to let go of hope, if that makes me delusional, so be it.