this guys gonna get the fucking Darwin award if he keeps doing this 🤦
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Our best chance is that he gets one of these diseases that is effectively treatable with a vaccine.
Thing is, even with that, he'd just take the vaccine and proceed to lie about it for profit. His father must be turning over in his grave.
I hope he gets sick and suffers
Maybe we can convince him to drink some of it
Like most con men, RFK is using people's ignorance of what odds mean. If the chance of getting sick from swimming in that water is only say one percent, he knows the odds are extremely good that he won't individually get sick, and then he will palm this off as "evidence" that it's all a big fuss over nothing. The park service might know maybe 100,000 people will swim in that water this season, so they'll probably save about a thousand from getting sick by closing the place. Even if somebody who does get sick manages to get the attention of a news outlet, they can be scoffed at as an anomaly. "How do you even know the water was responsible? Where else have you been? You're just looking for attention!"
How can the onion ever hope to compete with reality
the onion can not keep up with this, because fiction has to be believable, unlike reality ;-)
I think their hidden agenda is actually to bankrupt The Onion.
Wow this is next level stupid, i really thought it was the onion. I'd say i'm even shocked at this demonstration of stupidity, but the fact his grand children are led into this is beyond sad.
What else can you expect from a guy that starved a brain worm to death.
What a shitty grandpa.
That man deserves dysentery
go go power Darwin!
With modern medicine, we have switched to survival of the richest.
Funny enough not even Steve Jobs level money can save you if you prefer alternative treatments over modern medicine. Of course despite your stupidity you end up stealing a liver that actually someone else deserves more because you are stinking rich but even that does not prevent the inevitable.
Money won't do shit for you if you're too delusional to believe in modern medicine lol
Steve-O can't compete with this man
Steve was admittedly stuffed to the gills with booze and every drug available, and still is somehow more reasonable than this clown
The fact that people have any thought that this guy is smart or a good person makes me hate humanity.
I love that we're literally going back in time. They thought we'd have flying cars and end world hunger, but instead we have to watch our politicians swim in shit water.
Edit: HE TOOK HIS GRANDCHILDREN!?
Is he sewage-skeptic too?
He's the septic skeptic.
So brain worms are back on the menu?
In my state if you swim in any body of water it's almost always tainted somehow, maybe not with sewage but perhaps some other toxic pollutant. The only exception I can think of is the man-made reservoirs used for drinking water that people swim...
and pee in.
Jesus Christ what happened to water just being normal, dirty, outside water? How did we fuck it up this badly?
Because that's environmentalist extremism. You have to be reasonable and allow the rich to rob everyone at least a little. /s
Iowa. Right?
Close, Indiana.
Don't worry, he put a spiritual spin on it (probably) so it's ok, it's actually cleansing you see!
RFK Jr entered into a tontine with himself. He's the only member.
I'm rooting for chlorea here tbh.
Unfortunately, the proper treatment for cholera is to essentially just keep drinking clean water. To my understanding, cholera was only ever really a problem before we knew about germs/bacteria and we didn't have any infrastructure and our only drinking water was tainted with... more cholera.
So this guy, even if he gets cholera, wouldn't have to do much, lean on our existing pretty good water treatment facilities, and would claim he did it because he's so strong Because he's now a Trill or something.
I mean Cholera is kind of not the issue here. This creek has habitually tested high for e coli. An e coli infection makes cholera seem tame. You treat cholera it's got a mortality rate of less than 1%... E coli infection has a mortality rate around 17% slightly less than one in five people who get hit die from renal failure. Those odds go up significantly for kids...
This idiot brought his grandkids to splash in this e coli laced stream. I am without words.
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.
...maybe this problem will solve itself?
Worm or sickness? Who will be faster! MAKE YOUR BETS NOW!
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
Oh, I thought they'd misspelt septic...
'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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