DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoGerm-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted waterarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square149fedilinkarrow-up1664arrow-down16
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minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·9 hours agoOur best chance is that he gets one of these diseases that is effectively treatable with a vaccine. Thing is, even with that, he’d just take the vaccine and proceed to lie about it for profit. His father must be turning over in his grave.
minus-squareExpiringSharpie@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 hours agoVaccines are for prevention, they don’t work as treatment.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-219 minutes agoYeah, that’s true. But I think we both know that if he caught something he’d still get it treated privately and lie about it publicly, lest his grift be endangered, but I’d love it if he got polio and had to try and keep it quiet.
Our best chance is that he gets one of these diseases that is effectively treatable with a vaccine.
Thing is, even with that, he’d just take the vaccine and proceed to lie about it for profit. His father must be turning over in his grave.
Vaccines are for prevention, they don’t work as treatment.
Yeah, that’s true.
But I think we both know that if he caught something he’d still get it treated privately and lie about it publicly, lest his grift be endangered, but I’d love it if he got polio and had to try and keep it quiet.