Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.

Over coffee at a Starbucks just outside Austin, Texas, Del Bigtree told me he wants his teenage son to catch polio. Measles, too. He’s considered driving his unvaccinated family to South Carolina, which is in the midst of a historic outbreak, so that they can all be exposed. He prefers pertussis—whooping cough—to the pertussis vaccine, which he later described to me as a “crime against children.” It’s not the diseases that Americans should be afraid of, Bigtree insists: It’s the shots that stop them.

Spreading that message is Bigtree’s lifework. He produced Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, a 2016 documentary that helped mainstream the modern anti-vaccine movement by alleging—spuriously—that the CDC suppressed evidence of vaccine harms. His weekly internet show, The HighWire With Del Bigtree, mostly targets the pharmaceutical industry and has helped raise millions for his nonprofit, the Informed Consent Action Network, which files lawsuits to overturn school vaccine mandates around the country. He’s been a close adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and served as communications director for Kennedy’s 2024 presidential campaign.

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  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    Here’s a ruthless, objectively-convincing, cure, that in saner times would be outright-immoral, but when millions-of-lives-are-on-the-line, then morality becomes greyed ( same as intentionally assassinating Hitler before he highjacked Germany becomes morally-greyed, once one knows what he was doing later )…

    Infect this guy with rabies, & then refuse to let him use vaccines to survive it.


    WHEN humankind begins fighting-for-its-survival-itself, THEN this kind of ruthless-pragmatism will become actual, exactly as killing White-Blue-Red Russians is now a national-survival-requirement for Ukrainians.

    So long as humankind continues holding its head “in the sand” ( as ostrichs do not do: they aren’t intentionally-stupid the way we are ), then protecting pathogen-incarnate human action will continue, & the consequences will continue wiping-out entire-populations’ viability.

    ( I’m only pointing this perspective/point out: MY plan is to remove ME from this world, not to fight-for your-race’s survival: your-race won’t, so be silenced from universe, then. That is “valid”, obviously. )

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      rabies kill too fast, give him HIV, he is not allowed to anti-retroviral meds. so he can have immunocompromised related diseases and infections.