Wtf did i just read? The US health secretary swimming in shit water???
In images shared on social media, Kennedy can be seen getting fully underwater, including his head, and then splashing around with several of his grandchildren. Kennedy, who does not have any background in medicine or science, was a long-time anti-vaccine advocate before President Trump appointed him to be health secretary. In a 2021 book, Kennedy indicated that he does not believe in germ theory, the fundamental concept that microscopic pathogens, such as those abundant in sewage, are the cause of disease.
Prions have the opportunity to do the funniest thing
Heroin will turned his brains to mush after parasites turned it into swiss cheese
Did the brain worm leave anything for the prions to replicate in or for the poor brain-eating amoeba?
I get sometimes going “I’ll roll the dice”
- Me: I’d like my steak medium rare
- Government: That could expose you to some health risks because it’s not cooked well done.
- Me: Yep, I’d rather enjoy a medium rare steak and take my chances.
What the fuck was the logic on this one though?!
- RFK: I want to swim in sewage
- Government: it’s a bad idea to swim in sewage
- RFK: I LOVE SEWAGE!!!
- Government: you are a Kennedy right? You all dont have a pool?
- RFK: worm in brain need poop, poop in water, yum yum poop
He’s replenishing his parasite load
It’s called osmosis, shit with shit.
And what is making him so bright fucking red?
Testosterone supplements?
Sunburn, maybe. Perhaps he’s a “sunscreen skeptic,” too.
“Germ-theory skeptic”
For real just call him a reality skeptic and be done with it.
I would plead for someone to show this man a microscope but I fear the conclusions he might draw.
I’m team bacteria on this one. C’mon little guys - do your thing!
I think Goauld can control their metabolism sufficiently to be immune
Usually the people in charge of regimes like this are often sadistic hypocrites and absolutely know that what they spout is bullshit. RFK jr. here on the other hand, is apparently actually a fucking idiot.
Wouldn’t it be an absolute riot of a “leopards ate my face” situation if he ends up croaking because of this?
To clarify: I don’t wish any harm on his grandchildren, but this man’s level of willful ignorance and sheer recklessness makes it hard for me to sympathize with any negative outcome he may suffer personally.
It would.
How can the onion ever hope to compete with reality
the onion can not keep up with this, because fiction has to be believable, unlike reality ;-)
I think their hidden agenda is actually to bankrupt The Onion.
…maybe this problem will solve itself?
Like most con men, RFK is using people’s ignorance of what odds mean. If the chance of getting sick from swimming in that water is only say one percent, he knows the odds are extremely good that he won’t individually get sick, and then he will palm this off as “evidence” that it’s all a big fuss over nothing. The park service might know maybe 100,000 people will swim in that water this season, so they’ll probably save about a thousand from getting sick by closing the place. Even if somebody who does get sick manages to get the attention of a news outlet, they can be scoffed at as an anomaly. “How do you even know the water was responsible? Where else have you been? You’re just looking for attention!”
This is how dumbasses are going to kill us all. “I grew up drinking milk straight from the cow and never got sick! Big government just wants to prevent you from unlocking the magic of drinking pus!”
They won’t kill us all, just the ones dumb enough to believe reverting to the pre-science era to reinforce political beliefs is a good idea.
the creek’s bacterial counts—particularly E. coli counts—were dangerously high all the time.
Sorry for those children.
go go power Darwin!
With modern medicine, we have switched to survival of the richest.
Funny enough not even Steve Jobs level money can save you if you prefer alternative treatments over modern medicine. Of course despite your stupidity you end up stealing a liver that actually someone else deserves more because you are stinking rich but even that does not prevent the inevitable.
Money won’t do shit for you if you’re too delusional to believe in modern medicine lol
I hope he gets sick and suffers
Maybe we can convince him to drink some of it
During similar conditions in the past it has had around 100x the EPA standard of bacterial colonies.
And he’s hypocritical enough that I bet he started an antibiotic cocktail before he went there.
Stuff like this isn’t a problem, until it is.
What was in that sewage? Anybody with typhoid? Diphtheria? Probably not because vaccination and treatment is still over herd immunity levels. Then, of course, there were the kids who used to get vaccinated for Polio naturally by exposure to untreated sewage, and us rich countries having terrible cases of polio survival in older people because we didn’t bathe in toilet outflows.
Thing is, it’s a numbers game. The first hundred people might not get sick, immediately, but if you form two lines, one bathing in the sewage pool and the other bathing in a treated sanitary pool, run 100 people a day through each one and track them for two weeks, you’ll see the differences. That’s why we have scientific publications, so we can read about these kinds of past experiments and don’t have to repeat them.
*used to have
Yes, but… have you considered that no one who listens to this dispshit cares about all that? That’s the issue at hand. Everyone with common sense knows this is an idiotic publicity stunt.
Just like DeSantis & Co. getting their COVID jabs on camera, sitting around for 5 minutes and then saying “see: I’m fine, it’s not harmful.”
Bashing low flow shower heads, engine stop-start at red-lights, and everything they hear anyone bitching about - this is the party of “give the people what they want!”
What I want to know is: besides John McAfee, who wants to bathe in poo?
Can someone arrest him for child endangerment?
Lol you can’t arrest a rich person, that’s not how this works
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.
