Archived link (thank you @gAlienLifeform)
Indeed, Kennedy is a fuck nut.
MALILA!
(Make America Live in Iron Lungs Again)
You won’t have to live in an iron lung if your health care provider refuses to cover the cost. See? The system works!
If there’s a file of this somewhere for me to archive, I’ve likely got space.
I’ve already got Wikipedia, medwiki and a few others in local files as I expect any fascist to destroy information and replace it with whatever suits their narrative
Not sure / not that I’m aware of. I was going to see if anyone was working on crowdsourcing an archive via scraping or some similar method. Does Wayback Machine let you download archives, maybe?
My dads best friend had polio as a child. He still found a wife and had two wonderful children and a fulfilled life. Just because your legs are crippled, you need leg braces, special shoes and a wheelchair doesn’t mean you can’t have a great life!
/s
The brain worms are strong with this one.
I guess it just works too well?
Kind of. Basically nobody remembers how bad it was when polio and smallpox and whatnot were killing people so they think getting a shot is worse than the alternative.
That’s one of the big issues I’m having with this, people do remember. Both Mitch McConnell and Neil Young have experiences directly related to polio, and that’s just off the top of my head.
That being said the last iron lung polio survivor passed away this year. (Last one so far.)
Joni Mitchell too.
In 1955, when the success of the polio vaccine was announced, “Church bells rang, parades were held, and people danced in the streets”
Sure, not literally nobody, but the younger of the two people you posted is 79. But an insignificant percentage of the population.
I think the point was more that despite their personal experiences, they are still supporting this mindset. So even if it was more widespread, it wouldn’t be preventing whatever is causing this “movement”.
Vaccination is actually one of the few (possibly the only) areas where McConnell is on the right side of history.
The anti-vax movement isn’t primarily 80 year olds.
Suddenly I care about Mitch McConnell’s health and well-being, in a way I’ve never felt before.
I’ve hated that guy since I started reading politics. A world where he’s a good guy, needs improvement.
This is a world-laughs-at-you, history-book-making, memes-for-a-century level headline.
America thinks it’s The Federation but really it’s the result of a torrid affair between the Ferengi and the Samaritans.
Have a nice day, America. This guy was clearly out of reach.
Ferrengi and Pakleds, but yeah
The episode of Star Trek: TNG is called “Samaritan Snare”. The race is called the Pakleds.
We are Pakleds. Our ship is the Mondor. It is broken.
Right. In that episode, Pakleds were snaring the Samaritans. Basically grifting their way through the universe by taking advantage of good Samaritans. OP is still not quite nailing it.
OP is communicating using the shared experience of art. They’re certainly our neighbor, just as the good Samaritan was to the beaten Jew :)
Buckle up for the next NYT headline:
RFK Jr is the real vaccination-class hero, not experienced nurses and doctors and hundreds of years of medical science
RFK Jr acknowledges health care system is flawed.
“RFK Jr: an iconoclast set to shake up a complacent public health establishment.”
“If progressives truly want to bring the surge of polio deaths in the United States to an end they will have to learn to be nicer to our wealthy friends.”
“No-one even really gets polio anymore, so it’s just a waste of money…”
Just have polio partys for children so that they can catch it early and be protected!
Holy shit did he really say this??
No
Yeah, that’s something Trump would say.
This is the kind of argument you see from the dipshit vaccine denialists, though. But typically, they like to credit modern septic systems/clean water for a lot of things.
I think it’s really only maybe (younger) boomers and on down that could make the absolutely ridiculous arguments the vaccine denialists make, though. Most of the older people - esp Greatest Generation, but also older boomers, most likely - knew better from having seen children die/suffer from awful diseases.
But yeah, starting with Gen X and on down - the dumbassery around vaccines has slowly started taking off and seems to be getting worse as it goes…
According to Wikipedia, wild and fully potent polio is still circulating in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In addition, many developing countries are using live vaccines (weakened strains of polio) which can sometimes regain their ability to spread, even if they don’t do much damage.
Polio not gone, it’s just waiting for fools to think so - and to prematurely drop their defenses.
What the fuck my grandpa had a skinny leg and a hole in his back from medical tubes due to polio as a kid, this shit is no joke
Seriously. I’ve said this before here, but travel somewhere the polio vaccine wasn’t widely available. The amount of suffering via deformity and impacted development it causes is frightening.
Highly recommend watching the documentary “Benda Bilili!” about a group of street musicians in Kinshasa, DRC. They’re mostly paralyzed due to childhood polio, but it’s a very uplifting doc. They even sang a lovely song on their debut album about it called Polio.
And he is one of the lucky ones.
And so it begins…
You’d think they’re already murdering enough of us with the expensive/delayed/denied healthcare, the starvation wages, the cruel for-profit prisons, the cops, and the refusal to give even emergency abortions…but nope…they want to murder more of us.
#FreeLuigi
RFK Jr is the virus. Luigi is the vaccine.
It’s like they’re begging us to rise up in revolution.
They know that when it comes down to it you won’t. They know that the older generations are too set in their ways and the younger generation is more concerned about Naughty Dog’s new game. It’s takes very little for Americans to piss and moan on social media but much much mote before mass uprising. There are trillions of dollars to be fleeced from the middle class before any significant resistance arises.
Quick, someone lookup any owners of iron lung manufacturers. It will be one of these schmucks. Always follow the money
Maybe they will drag him in court for that one day, for killing Americans in an un-American way, i.e. without bullets.
