We're going to see the return of diseases we have controlled for decades
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Right now, many States require kids to be vaxed before starting school. If somehow the GOP and the Supreme Court invalidates that requirement, then in maybe 10 years we will be back to the 1930s.
I can see this happening if Kennedy is allowed into this position.
Kennedy has already caused damage:
> Appearing in Shot in the Arm, a 2023 documentary about vaccine opposition, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was asked about the deadly measles outbreak that occurred in Samoa in 2019 and claimed the lives of 83 people, mostly children. Kennedy, a leading anti-vaxxer who had visited the Pacific island nation a few months before the outbreak, replied, “I’m aware there was a measles outbreak…I had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa. I never told anybody not to vaccinate. I didn’t go there with any reason to do with that.”
> Kennedy was being disingenuous, sidestepping his connection to that tragedy. Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit anti-vax outfit he led until becoming a presidential candidate, had helped spread misinformation that contributed to the decline in measles vaccination that preceded the lethal eruption. And during his trip to Samoa, Kennedy had publicly supported leading vaccination opponents there, lending credibility to anti-vaxxers who were succeeding in increasing vaccine hesitation among Samoans. Moreover, in early 2021, Kennedy, in a little-noticed blog post, hailed one of those vaccination foes as a “hero.”
* https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-fals...
Yes, often when vaccination rates fall:
* https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-fals...
What this does in fact is create a reservoir for pathogens to mutate and proliferate, which is a danger to everyone.
Not the best link, but the abstract here sort of explains https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2738515/