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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dr. Edwards should lose his medical licence and be banned from working with children forever. How sociopathic do you have to be to be working whilst knowing you are carrying one of the most infectious diseases in existence? This is utterly inexcusable, especially since he is supposedly a qualified doctor and should be well aware of the danger he is putting his patients in.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

AFAIK it's the most known infectious.

Covid, or at least one of the omicron variants is next i think, but one might argue its more since the infection cycle was faster leading to larger numbers, but in terms 1 person infecting X people, it's Measles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Measles is more lethal to buy itself, if it causes meningitis or encephalitis, secondarily it suppresses the immune system

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Does seem like it would go against the hypocratic oath. That said, I leave that up to the medical board to determine since I am not a doctor. But it should at least be investigated by them.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Dude. WTF is going on in America.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Forty years of Republican brain rot and systemic cutting of education.

If your country has conservatives that look up to the United States, stamp it out now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly seems like y'all could use some development aid...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

We dismantled the department of education

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

And lead paint and leaded fuel everywhere

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

NOTHING GOOD

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Probably best you don't send help to the red states. Trump cultists would probably shoot at the people trying to help them like they do with FEMA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well you see we recently discovered that russia won the cold war. And now we have to reset the country to 1920 in order for them to get ahead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Idk. I think both sides actually lost, it just did what is ultimately very predictable and created the perfect conditions for fascism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

2Dumb4Survival

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun fact. RFK forced his brother to take cocaine and demerol. His brother would later get addicted, and die of an overdose. Also, he sounds like that from years of heroin abuse.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For what it's worth on the voice thing, assuming that's what "he sounds like that" refers to: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279176/rfk-voice-spasmodic-dysphonia

That's the result of a rare neurological condition known as spasmodic dysphonia, which has afflicted Kennedy for decades.

If you've got any evidence that it was heroin that caused that neurological condition I'm all ears, but we have a pretty reliable source on this one.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He's been a severe heroin addict for 14 years. It isn't uncommon for drug addicts to have motor dysfunction (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3966544/). He's put out himself that it is spasmodic dysphonia, which is a disease in which the cause is not well understood (ironically, it may be associated with measles). Importantly, this information was released when he was running for president. It is probably better to name a 'disorder' rather than to say I broke my brain from years for substance abuse.

There's a behind the bastard podcast that goes into detail about RFK's life. It's truly awful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i read that he got hepatitis c from sharing needles and that screwed up his voice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

No, that's fake news

He got hepatitis from all the rapes he's actually done

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm very familiar with the world of academia. To be honest, many of them/us are surprisingly stupid, but for a reason. To get a doctorate in a field is no easy task. Your lack of knowledge in much else is because you spent all you had being knowledgeable in a specific thing.

So even if you think a doctor is a stupid person in general, there is NO EXCUSE for them being stupid in the one thing they spent years becoming an expert in.

So, is this "doctor" actually holding a doctorate in this field? Let me check....

...god, he has the most generic name it's impossible to know.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Seriously who doesnt think he is a nurgle cultist at this point? This is like text book Nurgle follower.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I don't have a name to provide (as the "person harmed") but if you know of anyone that he visited while infected here's the complaint form: https://public3.tmb.state.tx.us/TMB_SSO_Complaint/default.aspx

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is Typhoid Mary getting a statue as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Measles mary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

rfk is doing gods work and making the world a better place for the rest of the world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By giving kids measles? You've lost your mind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We don't care if dumb americans die is what they're saying. Y'all voted for that shit afterall... poor little mericans in the richest country in the wotld with all the guns, ooohh measles

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did writing that make you feel better?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, it gave me a little giggle so yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I giggled too as an american. Why not enjoy the end times. People ushered this in through ignorance, arrogance, and inaction. let god sort em out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glad my sense of humour isnt entirely lost on you lot, best of luck in the apocalypse :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you! I've been a prepper most of my life so I'm ready for the results. These poor people can't even acknowledge the horrors they face in the imminent future. It's kinda cute and fitting. I'm very interested to see who survives in the post law, post walmart america. Maybe we can build a great nation again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a watcher it is definitely interesting, time to learn for the economists and sociologists. End of american hegemony was on my bingo card but i dont claim to know what happens. As an aussie i do know that we have more than enough food which is nice. I do hope you all can get your shit together but i would like to see an end to your influence on my country so i guess i'm not entirely on your side..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OI wanker. Ya I think that’s fair, American culture peaked 20 years ago and we no longer need to export it. Clearly the winner of the culture war was the culture war itself. I wouldn’t wish our fate on any nation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Im of the opinion that china won. Which was entirely predictable, watching the outsourcers lose their shit is properly hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Jurys out on that they might get consumed with us. Their whole economy is geared towards our insatiable lust for consumption. They don't have many friends left from the Wolf Warrior bullshit they pulled for 10 years. My moneys on Europe coming together.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

He has extremely valid points about ultra processed foods. That’s about it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I would say "extraordinary criminal".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What a hero. /s