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Historic NY

(38,897 posts) Thu Mar 20, 2025, 11:37 AM Mar 20

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs to stop saying vaccines are “a personal choice.”

They’re not. Speed limits aren’t a personal choice. Smoking on airplanes isn’t a personal choice. Paying taxes isn’t a personal choice. In wartime, the draft isn’t a personal choice. (Kennedy, who was born two weeks before me, is old enough to remember those days.) Sacrifices are what make us a nation instead of 340 million selfish hunter-gatherers. Each of us gives up some personal freedoms so we all stay alive. Opposing lifesaving mandates is childish libertarian nonsense.

Sadly, our top health official is a childish libertarian.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/19/rfk-measles-outbreak-vaccine-disinformation/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQyNDQzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODI1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDI0NDMyMDAsImp0aSI6Ijg0OGMwNGRkLTY1ODctNDZlYS04MGYyLTZiMmRiMDY2NGU0NyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzAzLzE5L3Jmay1tZWFzbGVzLW91dGJyZWFrLXZhY2NpbmUtZGlzaW5mb3JtYXRpb24vIn0.yzvTyzf2D0Tj_gW-8Cyy6Xi2XzSm0wkInm9ZtutUfrE&itid=gfta]

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RFK Jr. is spewing childish libertarian nonsense Vaccines are not a "personal choice." [View all] Historic NY Mar 20 OP

Describing someone as a "childish libertarian" is redundant. sop Mar 20 #1

Seeking a fantasy world that will never exist lame54 Mar 20 #3

Libertarians remind me of nothing so muchas toddlers... 3catwoman3 Mar 20 #10

Perfect! erronis Mar 20 #15

Objectivism mr715 Mar 20 #13

It seems his job is to... lame54 Mar 20 #2

Yes, sorta like Disaffected Mar 20 #11

Yeah, but only in small doses. NT mr715 Mar 20 #14

Teeny-weeny doses. erronis Mar 20 #17

Vaccines are "personal choice" SCantiGOP Mar 20 #5

This is worth repeating! AleksS Mar 20 #19

I feel the same way. Choices have consequences. patphil Mar 20 #22

The predator, just like his cousin described him to be. Passages Mar 20 #6

He's nothing but a PE. Public Embarrassment. calimary Mar 20 #8

repukes want to take away our choice on things that matter... cadoman Mar 20 #16

Christofascism is such an oxymoron. BattleRow Mar 20 #23

And yet this rfkjr vaccinates himself and his family. erronis Mar 20 #18

of course he does Skittles Mar 20 #24

Does he really, though? ShazzieB Mar 21 #26

He needs to stop, but he won't. maxsolomon Mar 20 #20

When it affects everyone else around you, it's not a personal choice IronLionZion Mar 20 #21

Exactly! ShazzieB Mar 21 #27

Post removed Post removed Mar 20 #25

Cleaned up link Celerity Mar 21 #28