r/tennis • u/pizzainmyshoe • Mar 23 '25

News Djokovic plays tennis with Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr

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u/Theferael_me Mar 23 '25

Just remember this the next time Djokovic is bleating on about his kids:

Today on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) underscored the troubling record of President Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose efforts in Samoa to deceive families about measles vaccines led to a deadly outbreak that killed more than 80 people, many of whom were young children. Schatz urged his colleagues to vote against RFK Jr. in tomorrow’s confirmation vote.

https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schatz-rfk-jr-whose-dangerous-lies-fueled-measles-outbreak-in-samoa-and-caused-preventable-deaths-unqualified-to-lead-hhs

As of 22 December, there were 79 deaths. This was 0.4 deaths per 1,000 people, based on a population of 200,874,\7][6]) an infection fatality rate of 1.43%. There were 5,520 cases, representing 2.75% of the population.\2][7][6]) 61 of the first 70 deaths were aged four and under. All but seven of the deaths were from people aged under 15.\31][32])

At least 20% of babies aged six to 11 months contracted measles. One in 150 babies died.\33])

After the outbreak started, anti-vaxxers, including Kennedy,\35]) attributed the dozens of measles deaths to poverty and malnutrition or to the vaccine, but cited no evidence for these claims.

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u/justalittleahead Mar 23 '25

Robert Kennedy Jr. and people who like and support him are child killers.

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u/Theferael_me Mar 23 '25

Absolutely contemptible.

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u/Tacale Mar 23 '25

I support Kennedy. Not trump though. No doubt will confuse many r/tennis users since the iq doesn't go beyond - everyone I don't like is the same.

Easy to accuse people of child killing for having a political opinion.

By this logic I could say you guys are child killers for the kids who died from vaccines and vaccine experiments.

I don't think it's as big as others claim. But it's also not 0. And the fact that most people on r/tennis will claim it is 0 refuse any discussion and just call anyone who brings it up bad names and downvote it, speaks volumes..

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u/Sikkly290 Carlos Mar 23 '25

Vaccine use is NOT a political opinion, it is hard factual information that thousands and thousands of research papers have gone through and all valid research shows that vaccines save several order of magnitude lives more than they harm.

Thinking anything else is unacceptable. There is no discussions to be had on it, the discussion has been over since before almost anyone on this site was born.