This is going to be an awful thing that will almost certainly lead to a lot of suffering and death, but watching McConnell's impassioned and deeply personal stories about surviving polio just get totally ignored like a Democratic president's supreme court nominee in his Senate was at least a little satisfying
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Fucking hell... I really fucking hope he doesn't take an axe to ADHD treatment.
He will, and say that you need to eat more bananas to heal yourself, or something equally stupid, like if you stopped shitting, it'll go away.
something equally stupid, like if you stopped shitting, it'll go away.
I mean, this is not wrong.
Thank god our children will now all be saved from autism, definitely for sure a fate worse than a lingering death full of suffering by contracting measles.
To people who never had measles due to successful vaccines against it and polio, and autism isn't curable or fixable and remains with the human condition, their "logic" is:
- I don't recall anyone in my family or friends having measles
- I only recall hearing autism being a thing these days
- Signs of autism shows up when vaccines are due for health
- Ergo, we don't need the vaccine and it makes them have autism
Meanwhile I'm perfectly fine with having my autism even if it is a "side effect" of any vaccine, because I'd rather be into my hobbies and weird trivia than be stuck with polio.
I have multiple autistic people in my family. I have multiple autistic friends. My daughter has autism. That these people treat it like not only a fate worse than death, but a fate worse than a long-suffering death just makes me sick to my stomach.
Exactly! I’m autistic, and the fact that our now secretary of health believes autism is caused from vaccines is infuriating!
He always looks like he's about to vomit.
It's the worms, they cause nausea.
And yet he’ll saw the head off a whale and drive home with it on the roof of his car as the car fills with “whale juice.” We know this because he decided to bring his kids along and one of them talked about it.
He looks like an over-baked potato.
He sounds like Death incarnate.
Edgar suit vibes.
welp.
Looking forward to the red states fully implementing all his policies.
Gesundheit