It’s uninformed conspiratorial nonsense like this that gets RFK into any other position other than the jail cell that he belongs in after what he did in Samoa. She’s a virologist, what in the world would the AMA have to do with “unloading repercussions” on her? Stealing this quote (and am prepared to have to say it a lot in the future) but it’s easy to think everything’s a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
“On 6 July 2018 on the east coast of Savai'i, two 12-month-old children died after receiving MMR vaccinations.[8] The cause of death was incorrect preparation of the vaccine by two nurses who mixed vaccine powder with expired anaesthetic instead of the appropriate diluent.[20] These two deaths were picked up by anti-vaccine groups and used to incite fear towards vaccination on social media, causing the government to suspend its measles vaccination programme for ten months, despite advice from the WHO.[21][19] The incident caused many Samoan residents to lose trust in the healthcare system.[22]”
Guess which anti vaccine groups used two unrelated deaths to inundate the island in antivax propaganda and caused a measles outbreak that killed over 80 children?
And if RFK’s org hadn’t taken up a medical error and spent millions in advertising to convince Samoans that it was the vaccine and not human error that caused the two deaths, there would be two dead kids and not over 80. How in the world can anyone defend measles vaccine truthers in this day and age?
Whatever happened to "my body, my choice"? Pro-lifers, war-on-drugs, going all the way back to prohibition--drawing hard lines on interventions with stochastic outcomes is tyrannical. After taking my pre-reqs with the nurses 25 years ago, I'd also hesitate to have most of them inject me with anything--not as an "antivax" position, but as an "I don't trust party girls with hygiene, algebra, or needles" one.
