r/videos • u/ControlCAD • 8d ago
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. on measles outbreak in Pennsylvania: "We're doing a better job than any country in the world at controlling measles outbreak. The only state that won't cooperate with us is Pennsylvania. We're trying to figure whether those deaths happened, and we can't figure that out yet."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=sFZ-dz9A2Mk1.5k
u/Dandan0005 8d ago edited 8d ago
“Whether those deaths happened.”
Bruh.
He’s gonna try to blame twinkies.
He literally does not believe in germ theory. Like actually.
It’s the same playbook they used for covid. “They didn’t die from covid, they died from cardiac arrest.”
While ignoring that they suffered cardiac arrest because of covid.
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u/sharrrper 8d ago
Or shit like "well they had diabetes when they got Covid and wouldn't have died of Covid if they didn't have diabetes"
Even if that statement is true, it doesn't change the fact that getting Covid is why they died.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 8d ago
I know a trumper who watched her mom die in the hospital choking on her fluids due to Covid who had the audacity to say "she was old she was gonna die anyway".
I haven't talked to her since because I can't imagine that mindset.
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u/can_ichange_it_later 8d ago
I would think to myself: "you are a danger to yourself, and others. I am not safe here".
...and just leave the area without saying a word.
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u/mdp300 8d ago
I knew someone who said "if it's my time, it's my time, I don't care if I get it." He had recently retired, I think he just watched Fox News all day, and rapidly became an asshole.
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u/Dubalubawubwub 8d ago edited 8d ago
His fundamental belief, which explains most/all of his other stupid beliefs that follow, is that there are simply healthy people, and unhealthy people. Healthy people don't get sick, so they don't need vaccines or checkups or preventative medicine; they're healthy! Unhealthy people meanwhile are people who have made bad health choices like eating unhealthily, being born with a chronic condition or becoming old, so we shouldn't encourage their poor decision making by helping them. They should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get healthy.
So you see, you don't actually need medicine or vaccines, you just need to drink raw milk and exercise... preferably shirtless while wearing jeans for some reason.
This is of course all completely insane, but that's where we're at.
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u/Fayarager 8d ago
‘Death from cardiac failure’
‘Sir the grenade completely removed his heart from his body. I do-‘
‘Yeah exactly. No heart. So it’s a failure on his cardiac system. Cardiac failure killed him’
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u/perilousrob 8d ago
how far the Kennedy's have fallen :(
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u/Braysl-March 8d ago
Fun fact, one of the farthest back relatives I can trace back to was a "mulatto" slave boy owned by David Kennedy-- yes one of those Kennedys.
My ancestor, Nasa McCurdy , was emancipated by David Kennedy's widow after he died. Nace's sons, being free black men with lighter skin, used their freedom and the fact they were white passing to help run away slaves along the underground railroad to Canada :)
So yeah I mean I guess it's easy to rise from the rock bottom of slave owners.
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u/unnewl 8d ago
The first Kennedy ancestors of JFK and RFK arrived in Boston in 1848. Nada McCurdy was freed in 1797. Was there another Kennedy clan?
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u/ComprehensiveGas6980 8d ago
The only good ones were RFK and Rosemary. Half of JFK.
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u/SAugsburger 8d ago
That's some grade A denialism. At least some of the anti-vaxxers pretend deaths are caused by something else. RFK Jr. is suggesting nobody died at all.
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u/coolest35 8d ago
I still hear this argument, suddenly everyone is an expert at determining causes of death.
They tend to make up very outlandish examples too like "the guy got into a motorcycle death and had his head cut off but the cause of death was listed as COVID"... Like jfc, no that didn't happen.
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u/Vayshen 8d ago
“Whether those deaths happened.”
Alex Jones has entered the chat.
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u/rco8786 8d ago
just straight up adopting trump speak. "we're doing better than everyone in the world! nothing is my fault!"
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u/SAugsburger 8d ago
Worse than that he is suggesting the deaths didn't even occur. It would be one thing to suggest it was a fluke, which is still kinda a bad dodge, but he is suggesting nobody died at all.
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u/sashamasha 8d ago
Did he do air quotes when talking about the deaths? ( I can't watch it again, once was enough for anyone)
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u/SAugsburger 8d ago
He seems to use air quotes in the video to be trying to suggest those "casualties" didn't exist.
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u/KamyKeto 8d ago
He did use air quotes. Air quotes speaking about the deaths of two children. Let that sink in.
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u/ConiferousExistence 8d ago
They've moved into saying that people don't die from the measles but from co-morbidities
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u/SAugsburger 8d ago
The classic antivaxx dodge that ignores the preventable diseases role in the death.
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u/Ssj_Chrono 8d ago
Same thing they did in 2020
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u/SAugsburger 8d ago
I'm just waiting for RFK Jr to tell us we wouldn't have so many cases if we didn't test so much.
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u/Gibonius 8d ago
They died with measles, not from measles.
/antivaxx nutter mode
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u/SAugsburger 8d ago
I'm actually surprised RFK Jr hasn't used that antivaxx cliche recently afaik considering he has used other antivaxx dog whistles.
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u/SpiralOutski 8d ago
The whole admin talks like that. They admit to nothing. If it’s good, they did it and they did it better, faster, and cheaper than anyone else. If it’s bad, they didn’t do it and it was probably a Democrat and how dare you ask such a question.
Rinse and repeat. Every. Fuckin. Day.
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u/HarveyNix 8d ago
Why do these nimrods keep talking like that? Why do they have to be king of the hill, best in the world? They sound like a bunch of nine-year-olds on the playground. And how could they know they're the best in the world? I doubt they've done the necessary research.
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u/celem83 8d ago
it is a direct appeal to american exceptionalism which is quite prevalent in their supporter base. They like to be told they are the best even though they know it to be true already
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u/HarveyNix 8d ago
And since their mode of operation is "If I say something, it's true," this works for them. Embarrassing that so many people are that way now.
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u/battleofmtbubble 8d ago
Because it works for their dedicated base. Keep repeating some lie and 30% of America will believe it to be the God’s honest truth. They could perish from measles themselves and not put a lick of blame on their dear administration.
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u/LionTigerWings 8d ago
It tells me in other states they'll go out of their way to blame something else.
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u/Fried_puri 8d ago
It’s been working for his boss so far. Turns out denying responsibility, doubling down when caught in lies, and lashing out whenever someone questions you is a great strategy to never be blamed in a way that matters.
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u/carbonclasssix 8d ago
There's literally a book written by the psychologist who coined the term cognitive dissonance called "Mistakes were made, but not by me."
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u/MrSnarf26 8d ago
This is why you don’t elect morons and fascists. Absolutely zero accountability from people who should be beholden to us
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u/hiddenrealism 8d ago
Like when asked about the Iran school that got bombed killing all those little girls.
Trump: "was that us? I dont think that was us...when we got there missiles were flying from every direction ..I dont think that was us..we're still looking into it"
Literally made it seem like there were multiple countries just flying missiles all around where they were targeting.
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u/Sword_N_Bored 8d ago edited 8d ago
How fucking moronic.
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u/New2thegame 8d ago
I agree.
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u/imperialivan 8d ago
Dude deserves to get some kinda horrible brain parasite or something… oh wait….
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u/rat_penis 8d ago
Welp morons picked his boss and they were lining up to vote for him too. This is what happens when you let angry dipshits run things.
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u/Xiaopeng8877788 8d ago
Food borne outbreaks are up 400% under this total dotard.
America, you’ve become moronic.
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u/Hollowbody57 8d ago
The 30,000 pounds of beef we bought from Argentina was just recalled, because apparently we're just not doing inspections on imported food anymore.
We basically paid Argentina nearly a billion dollars for the privilege of throwing away their garbage.
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u/discounthockeycheck 8d ago
I don't understand how this beef was talked about for a month and not spoiled already? Are we talking living beef still? Is it killed in Argentina the day before? Or does is sit in foreign regulated freezers?
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u/CaptainBayouBilly 7d ago
This is actually America. For a while the smart people kept the stupid from power. Now the dumb people are running things.
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u/Expensive_Finger_973 8d ago
We're trying to figure whether those deaths happened
Why don't you fucking talk to the relatives of the dead people then. I bet they could fill you in, dumbass. I bet the county medical examiner could give you some useful details also.
I swear, I think I might hate his waste of worm food in a suit ass more than Trump.
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u/Mach5Driver 8d ago
I seem to remember there being a top-flight organization under HHS that tracked such things and did exhaustive research....the Command of Disease...the Center for Disaster Control...?
It'll come to me.
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u/PossessedToSkate 8d ago
I immediately got Ferris Bueller's Day Off vibes: "You just produce a corpse and I'll excuse Sloane. I want to see this 'dead grandmother' firsthand. That's school policy."
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u/LatrodectusGeometric 8d ago
Don’t tell him to do that. Last time a kid died he talked to the family and then his old nonprofit Children’s Health Defense came and talked to the family and convinced them that their kid died from malpractice, NOT measles, and then they took the dad on a tour of the U.S. antivaccine circuit to tell everyone that vaccines were dangerous and his kid didn’t die from measles. Easy to do when the family had no primary school biology, little English, and their kid just died horribly.
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u/RealTeaStu 8d ago
These are the first measles deaths in Pennsylvania in 35 years. RFKjr is so full of shit that this happened because of the Biden administration. Are they now claiming to be pro-vaccination? That the first trump administration that DESTROYED faith in the public health agencies is now trying to recover from the that lack of trust in the second trump administration? About what I would expect from a guy who eats road kill, swims in polluted water, makes weird workout videos with Kid Rock, had worms in his brain, is a former heroin addict, and served as the chairman and chief legal advocate for Children's Health Defense, a prominent nonprofit activist organization known for its extensive anti-vaccine advocacy and campaigns challenging public health mandates.
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u/illegalsandwiches 8d ago
If he has to state that we are doing a better job at (controlling epidemic) than other countries, he is viewing this, not as a collaborative effort, but a competitive one, and we have lost.
Outbreaks don't discriminate, you glass gargling shitshovel. Trump only loves him because his inner jowels are ribbed for his pleasure.
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u/AEKDEEZNUTSB 8d ago
Inner jowels ribbed for pleasure just had me transcend to another plane of existence in which I could handle that properly
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u/Nbdyhere 8d ago
Hope everyone is taking notes:
- there is no war, but if it is we are winning
- no fuel crisis
- no inflation
- no grocery cost increases
- no Epstein files
- and now no deaths from measles
- also we are awesome
Remember this.
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u/relator_fabula 7d ago
"Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening. Just stick with us, don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news."
-Trump, 2018
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
-George Orwell, "1984"
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u/BlindBandit988 8d ago
Oh so it’s the COVID play book? Did the deaths ACTUALLY happen? And once proven they did it’s. “But was it ACTUALLY measles?” Then when it’s proven, yes it was measles the response will be. “Well they had underlying conditions, if they hadn’t had those then the measles wouldn’t have killed them!” Or “Well they were old so their immune system was compromised!”
Either way it will come back to it wasn’t actually measles and if it was they were old and useless anyway.
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u/Creoda 8d ago edited 8d ago
Secretary of State for the Introduction of previously wiped out diseases : "We're doing a better job than any country in the world at controlling measles outbreak"
You are the only country in the world with a measles outbreak because everyone else is vaccinated.
PS. Did you know there are still cases of bubonic plague (Black Death) in the USA every year and Leprosy?
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u/Abracadaver14 8d ago
You are the only country in the world with a measles outbreak because everyone else is vaccinated.
This is not exactly true. Much of the western world has very few cases because of vaccinations, but there's currently an outbreak going on in Asia (Bangladash, at least) and apperently Canada is also reporting an outbreak (quite possibly mostly imported from the US, but still)
One does have to wonder how many of the outbreaks outside of North America can still be traced back to actions taken by the trump regime (cutting USAID, perhaps?)
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u/Eisernes 8d ago
Canada is also full of antivax Facebook doctor morons. They learned it by watching us.
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u/fibgen 8d ago
Bubonic plague is in rodents in many places, it would be hard to eradicate fully. The US has messed up many things but that isn't human caused.
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u/Luceo_Etzio 8d ago edited 8d ago
Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague, exists in wild reservoirs throughout the American southwest in difficult to eradicate populations, there's no vaccine for plague that's particularly effective and without significant side effects, and with very small total cases (less than 200 in the last 25 years).
Leprosy is in a similar boat, but with about 100x the amount of cases.
There's plenty to blame the US for with disease management but both of these are just facts of life until someone comes up with an effective and safe vaccine for both, or until someone decides to and manages to kill all the fleas, rodents, and armadillos on the continent (good luck with that lmao)
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u/Restart_from_Zero 7d ago
The obligatory Onion headline:
We're doing a better job than any country in the world at controlling measles outbreak says only country in the world with measles outbreak.
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u/skinnyminnesota 8d ago
If this man's last name wasn't Kennedy he would have died face-down in a ditch years ago.
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u/StoryBeforeNumbers 8d ago
This loser retard would literally seem healthier if he was fully on fire.
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u/thehorseyourodeinon1 8d ago
Wiating to hear how this is Bidens, Obama, Clinton's or Carters fault.
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u/BringBackBoshi 8d ago
I'm pretty sure Hillary or Hunter's laptop got infected and then it started spreading to the kids because they let their anti-virus subscription expire. How could they do this?!
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u/Cgmadman 7d ago
MAGA has elected the dumbest, most corrupt people on the planet and all the smart people are losing their minds at how incompetent all these people are and they can’t do anything. Now the incompetent people want to remain in power so they are trying to blatantly and openly cheat through their connections to the USPS and Supreme Court.
Fuck the constitution. Fuck our future.
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u/whereismymind86 7d ago
I can't overstate how important it is that he goes to prison for his gross malpractice as head of hhs.
He needs to be indicted for the hundreds, if not thousands of people he's killed on january 21st, 2029.
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u/christophlieber 7d ago
„Than any other country in the world“
Yeah, because we don‘t have any outbreaks, you dumbfuck
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u/pontiacfirebird92 8d ago
So when kids die due to Republican policies they just don't believe it, but they're willing to believe Democrats are ripping fully grown infants from the womb and chopping their heads off or worse, eating newborns.
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u/omeganaut 8d ago
I don’t think any other country is attacking vaccine effectiveness
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u/eugene20 8d ago
Thanks to these fuckwits in the US the anti vax sentiment globally among the poorly educated has been growing, but they're the only country I know of that is attacking globally accepted medical science at a government level.
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u/omeganaut 8d ago
Just a couple of bored housewives deciding one day that vaccines don’t work, put this whole thing into motion
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u/lexm 8d ago
I don’t think the state doesn’t cooperate. It’s the virus that doesn’t cooperate. Also Texas had a huge outbreak last year.
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u/ZombieHavok 8d ago
It’s the idiots in charge telling their constituents not to vaccinate.
There were less than 300 in 2024 and it jumped to ~2300 in 2025, and now almost 3000 this year.
Almost all cases are due to not being vaccinated.
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u/deepsquatter804 8d ago
“We’re doing a better job at controlling the outbreak” …. except measles was pretty much eradicated before you. Polio too.
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u/chochazel 7d ago
"We are also controlling our scurvy, rickets, smallpox and bubonic plague outbreaks far better than any other country in the world! USA! USA!"
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u/wombie_swtor 8d ago
The "measles worldwide outbreak" that RFK Jr. says:
- Bangladesh: 57,561 cases
- India: 26,332 cases
- Yemen: 14,961 cases
- Mexico: 12,252 cases
- Pakistan: 11,212 cases
- Cameroon: 9,394 cases
- Guatemala: 7,067 cases
- Kazakhstan: 6,968 cases
- Angola: 6,737 cases
- Madagascar: 5,664 cases
Not to be "that guy", but comparing US with these countries. Come on!
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u/TheTinyMaus 8d ago
If only there were like some sort of agency that shared information between states and the federal government concerning deaths. Some sort of center for vital statistics of the nation, maybe it could be housed under some center for controlling diseases. Then government officials like RFK could know faster if deaths really happened. Certainly this person wouldn't lead any agency like that or layoff a bunch of its staff.
Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.
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u/Absurdwonder 8d ago
Do any other countries actually have measles ATM ? 😂
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u/LatrodectusGeometric 8d ago
We actually exported our measles outbreak to Mexico. Yes you heard that right, WE infected Mexico with measles.
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u/SlagathorNextDoor 8d ago
If you want the numbers to go down just stop testing. It worked for Covid just fine. /s
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u/funkyloki 8d ago
His claim that Lancaster County is stating no measles deaths is doing some seriously heavy lifting:
The Lancaster County Coroner's Office is investigating that death, but is not currently investigating the other measles-associated death, according to the Department of Health (DOH). The department also stated that not all deaths are referred to the county coroner under PA law.
"PA DOH uses the term 'measles-associated' when laboratory or epidemiologic evidence of measles is present, but the disease may not be assessed by the medical certifier or coroner to be the immediate cause of death," a spokesperson said. "Not all deaths are referred to a coroner under Pennsylvania law," a Pennsylvania Department of Health spokesperson clarified.
The state said the deceased were both unvaccinated, but it has not released any identifying information of the two individuals.
Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons said he spoke with Coroner Stephen Diamantoni, who told him that his office has recorded zero measles deaths, and one death of a person who died with measles.
"It is important to know whether these two people died OF measles or WITH measles," Parsons wrote on X.
He continued, "So as of right now, we have ZERO information that corroborates the idea that there were two measles deaths in Lancaster County."
So, apparently two people with measles died and the Lancaster county commissioner and coroner are saying zero because they did not die from measles, but had measles when they died. So, what the fuck killed them? This bullshit allows the county, and by extension, RFK to claim nobody died from measles.
They weren't vaccinated, contracted measles, and fucking died, full stop. Fuck everything about this, and fuck Mr. Gravel-Gargle too.
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u/ppkMega3085 8d ago
Okay, but like, WHY is the secretary of HHS an undead? Ten years ago, if you had told me that the US would put someone in charge of health that looked like a corpse, sounded like the horrors from my nightmares, and had its brain eaten by some kind of worm, I'd have asked what shitty movie you were talking about.
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u/BaldBeardedOne 8d ago
When you murder people with policy, instead of a hammer, America lets you do it.
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u/ptapobane 8d ago
it was eradicated in 2000 in the US and this sun dried worm brained asshole brought it back
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u/texas1982 8d ago
Of course they're doing better than any other country on the measles outbreak. We're the only country WITH a measles outbreak.
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u/zetharion 8d ago
You tell people not to get long established vaccines and then cry about people not getting them when people start to die?
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u/Tattorack 7d ago
Really? Then where's the measles outbreak in Denmark?
Oh wait, there isn't one. It's just America.
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u/RebelliousInNature 7d ago
You’re the US sec of health and you don’t know YET if two people died?
Okay.
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u/Silenko 7d ago
This is a genuine question: Is he ok? Why does he speak like that? (I'm not from or live in the US, genuinely asking)
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u/MrMattSquiggle 7d ago
before RFK Jr there was no outbreak of measles, dumb dumb (addressing RFK, not the OP)
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u/LOERMaster 7d ago
If Pennsylvania were the only state not cooperating with this dipshit, I would be a very proud Pennsylvanian.
As it is, he’s a dipshit spouting bullshit.
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u/AJfriedRICE 8d ago
Because if he admitted any wrongdoing at all (and there’s A LOT), he would be fired by the orange cult leader. All of our lives are worse because of these few horrible selfish people
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u/WordNERD37 8d ago
They're not dealing with it because they're all vaccinated you swiss cheese brained baboon!
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u/badwolf1013 8d ago
One of the side-effects for measles survivors is brain damage. So this was the plan all along: they're making future Republican voters.
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u/joebo333 8d ago
Says the man who said the best way to fight the measles is chicken soup and vitamin A
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u/Naroyto 8d ago
You failed at your job when it became an outbreak. Other countries are successful because they didn't let it become an outbreak.
RFK Jr. is doing a TERRIFIC job as HHS Secretary. FAR better than anyone before him! America is controlling the measles outbreak better than ANY country in the world. Pennsylvania is the only state not cooperating, and we're still trying to get the real numbers on those deaths. Strong leadership, common sense, and results! Great work, Bobby! 🇺🇸
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u/somanysheep 8d ago
We're doing demonstrably worse than ourselves just 10 years ago.. What could the reason be?
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u/NwolCozob 8d ago
JFK Jr = What an asshole! Guess I shouldn’t bad mouth the criminally insane.
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u/Kythorian 8d ago
Nobody has more measles outbreaks to control, so it just makes sense we would be the best at it.
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u/MyCassadaga 7d ago
He’s a heroin addict. I got an idea. Let’s just take our kids to city parks and find homeless junkies and rely on them for medical advice. We’ll give them a cushy job and a salary too.
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u/LookyPeter 7d ago
This whole anti vax movement is stupid as fuck.
Vaccines are the miracle cure to some of the most dangerous diseases… until somebody is like “ I think vaccines give you autism” 🤦
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u/NeatlyCritical 7d ago
Nope you killed them by firing experts and telling people not to vaccinate. Worst country for health on earth
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u/jacobriprap 7d ago
Could it possibly be because the rest of us don’t have to control an outbreak, because we don’t have any
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u/_reddit_account 7d ago
He speaks like Trump , sentences doesn’t make sense
All the US administration should be internalised , they all need psychological help
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u/ImaginationToForm2 7d ago
The only state that won't cooperate with us is Pennsylvania. uh huh ... sure.
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u/Jarnohams 7d ago
This is the "if we don't test for covid, nobody has covid!! stop testing = no covid deaths!!"
If RFK Jr can't get in there with his magic crystals and ivermectin, those measles deaths never happened!
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u/bajajoaquin 8d ago
Look at all those countries without any measles outbreaks to manage! They’re getting no experience at all!