Rant #3,581: Listen People

Today is the day I will be interviewed on the podcast.

I finally chose the five singles that I will be talking about, and they all have a story attached to them.

I won't tell you what I chose ... just in case you ever want to tune in.

Onto other matters ...

As you know, I did not vote for either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump to be our next president.

I certainly had my reasons, and now I can tell you one of the reasons why I did not vote for Harris, but especially Trump.

The incoming president has been lining up his cabinet over the past few weeks, and quite frankly, the cabinet is supposed to reflect the views of the commander in chief, so his choices have not been too surprising to me.

But one kind of was, especially to the cabinet post this person was named to.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was nominated as ditlrector of health and human services. He has been a long-time conspiracy theorist, with his most vehement belief being that vaccines, which have been designed to suppress numerous severe illnesses, actually cause maladies like autism.

His beliefs have absolutely no basis in fact, and have been proven to be completely fraudulent time and time again.

However, his beliefs about vaccines reached fever pitch when COVID hit us, and some of those beliefs were echoed by Trump during his first term--although the president at least partially reneged, and his Warp Speed initiative actually got the ball rolling for the development of a vaccine to at least mitigate the coronavirus.

Anyway, RFK Jr. ran for president, and bowed out as Trump said he would offer him a cabinet post if he beat Harris--

Which he did, handedly, as the vice president ran what has to go down as one of the worst presidential campaigns in recent memory.

So Trump kept his word, and nominated his new buddy to this powerful.post.

The problem is that RFK Jr. will continue to voice his imbecilic views, and on a major podium.

And what's worse, there are a lot of people who actually believe this drivel, and believe it as if it came from God's mouth.

And RFK Jr.'s views could greatly impact how we handle such diseases if he is confirmed.

I have seen more anti-vaccine posts on Facebook than I ever have, and the people who actually believe that vaccines cause illness really need to be told that their views are as stupid as they actually sound.

I belong to a group which is led by a popular movie and TV actress from the 1970s and 1980s, and she--and many of her followers--actually believe this nonsense.

She put up a post about the hazards of vaccines, and amongst plenty of people who supported her stance, I decided to give the other viewpoint.

And as someone who suffered as a very young child with one of the diseases that we have an actual vaccine for--one that rid the planet of this disease until recently, when some parents prohibited their kids from getting the shot--I think I have a pretty good, and perhaps unique, view of this.

And I don't just blame RFK Jr. and his flock; I blame our current administration, who, stupidly, fed the populace a rancid bill of goods related to the COVID "vaccine"--which isn't really one at all.

There are a lot of culprits here about why people doubt these real, honest to goodness vaccines, and as someone who actually had one of these once-eradicated diseases, I had plenty to say on this subject--and this what my rebuttal was.

There really is nothing more to say on the subject.

"These anti-vaccine people are very foolish. Think about how they have virtually wiped out polio, measles and other diseases ... until these ignorant souls held back their children from getting certain shots, and now you have incidences where these once obliterated scourges have come back.

What's worse, those holding their kids back from getting the shots received the shots themselves when they were children ... and now as adults and parents, they won't give their own kids the shots? Ludicrous, to say the least!

I think these people are so against the shots because of the COVID shots. Yes, we were initially told that those innoculations would obliterate the disease. The government should never have said that. As we all know, the shots work, but only lessen the severity of COVID if you get it. 

Since the COVID shot is not of the same effectiveness as the other shots, some among us conflagurate those shots with the  other shots as being cut from the same cloth, and they do this wrongly.

Get your kids ALL the shots. They will ward off entirely diseases like measles, and they will prevent serious complications from other diseases.

I cannot believe grown people are even arguing about this in 2024. I guess that just because you can have children doesn't mean you should, or are a true parent.

Get your kids the shots, which are required by many school districts anyway. Don't put your kids at peril.

(And by the way, you can bet RFK Jr., himself, got his measles, polio and the other shots when he was a child ... so what exactly is he blabbering about?)

--A Measles Survivor"