• Limcon@lemmy.ml
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    Wtf did i just read? The US health secretary swimming in shit water???

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      In images shared on social media, Kennedy can be seen getting fully underwater, including his head, and then splashing around with several of his grandchildren. Kennedy, who does not have any background in medicine or science, was a long-time anti-vaccine advocate before President Trump appointed him to be health secretary. In a 2021 book, Kennedy indicated that he does not believe in germ theory, the fundamental concept that microscopic pathogens, such as those abundant in sewage, are the cause of disease.

      Prions have the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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        Heroin will turned his brains to mush after parasites turned it into swiss cheese

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      I get sometimes going “I’ll roll the dice”

      • Me: I’d like my steak medium rare
      • Government: That could expose you to some health risks because it’s not cooked well done.
      • Me: Yep, I’d rather enjoy a medium rare steak and take my chances.

      What the fuck was the logic on this one though?!

      • RFK: I want to swim in sewage
      • Government: it’s a bad idea to swim in sewage
      • RFK: I LOVE SEWAGE!!!
      • Government: you are a Kennedy right? You all dont have a pool?
      • RFK: worm in brain need poop, poop in water, yum yum poop
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    If he gets some insane new parasite from this what are the odds it kills the one driving his brain now and takes over with a more normal personality?

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    Stop calling everyone a “skeptic” and call them what they are: deniers. Anti-science, fact resistant deniers. Calling people germ-theory skeptics, or climate skeptics, or vaccine skeptics, and so on and so on, makes it sound like there’s an honest scientific debate going on

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      Exactly. Skepticism is about casting doubt on beliefs and dogmas, not outright rejecting facts. When it comes to germs and vaccines there’s scientific consensus on those matters. They’re as close to facts as you can get. But rejecting those you’re not a skeptic, you’re a denier. There’s no scientific debate on those topics, only a political debate on whether to reject science or not.

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            i’m adding, not disagreeing… guess i should’ve said, “yeah comrade, well put, scientists are the real skeptics 🤝”
            but, for the record, i agree with your preceding comment.
            i apologize for lack of clarity 🎩 🤏

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        I honest to God can’t believe how such fucking morons managed to get power. RFK jr. Would have been seen as a bigger crackpot than Alex Jones if he wasn’t RFK’s son.

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      ‘idiots’ is my preferred term. I’m in favor of calling stupid people out again. Too long has stupidity been condoned and even championed ‘He tells it like it is’.

      They are morons and need to be called that unabashedly.

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    Wouldn’t it be an absolute riot of a “leopards ate my face” situation if he ends up croaking because of this?

    To clarify: I don’t wish any harm on his grandchildren, but this man’s level of willful ignorance and sheer recklessness makes it hard for me to sympathize with any negative outcome he may suffer personally.

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    the creek’s bacterial counts—particularly E. coli counts—were dangerously high all the time.

    Sorry for those children.

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    Usually the people in charge of regimes like this are often sadistic hypocrites and absolutely know that what they spout is bullshit. RFK jr. here on the other hand, is apparently actually a fucking idiot.

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    Stuff like this isn’t a problem, until it is.

    What was in that sewage? Anybody with typhoid? Diphtheria? Probably not because vaccination and treatment is still over herd immunity levels. Then, of course, there were the kids who used to get vaccinated for Polio naturally by exposure to untreated sewage, and us rich countries having terrible cases of polio survival in older people because we didn’t bathe in toilet outflows.

    Thing is, it’s a numbers game. The first hundred people might not get sick, immediately, but if you form two lines, one bathing in the sewage pool and the other bathing in a treated sanitary pool, run 100 people a day through each one and track them for two weeks, you’ll see the differences. That’s why we have scientific publications, so we can read about these kinds of past experiments and don’t have to repeat them.

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      Yes, but… have you considered that no one who listens to this dispshit cares about all that? That’s the issue at hand. Everyone with common sense knows this is an idiotic publicity stunt.

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        Just like DeSantis & Co. getting their COVID jabs on camera, sitting around for 5 minutes and then saying “see: I’m fine, it’s not harmful.”

        Bashing low flow shower heads, engine stop-start at red-lights, and everything they hear anyone bitching about - this is the party of “give the people what they want!”

        What I want to know is: besides John McAfee, who wants to bathe in poo?

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    During similar conditions in the past it has had around 100x the EPA standard of bacterial colonies.

    And he’s hypocritical enough that I bet he started an antibiotic cocktail before he went there.

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    numerous century-old municipal sewer lines that run under the park. These lines have cracked over time and leak sewage

    This is easy to fix.

    Shame the article doesn’t say how much the municipality is being fined every day they continue to leak raw sewage into the watershed.

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      There are these linings that are deployed into old pipes, which would be otherwise costly to replace.
      I wonder if there’s a legitimate reason this technique couldn’t be used here.
      It is possible those only work for smaller diameter pipes.