- cross-posted to:
- TooDumbToImagine@europe.pub
- cross-posted to:
- TooDumbToImagine@europe.pub
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!”
This is how dumbasses are going to kill us all. “I grew up drinking milk straight from the cow and never got sick! Big government just wants to prevent you from unlocking the magic of drinking pus!”
They won’t kill us all, just the ones dumb enough to believe reverting to the pre-science era to reinforce political beliefs is a good idea.
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.
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.
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.Costly, sure. But easy. There’s no design or engineering challenge here.
We just need to assess fines greater than the cost of replacement, and it’ll happen.
The only pipelines we should be putting in the ground are for clean water and sanitation. Lots of jobs to be had. Can’t find the funding? Take it from the military. Easy.
The fact that people have any thought that this guy is smart or a good person makes me hate humanity.
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?
Its like season 5 of Dexter when they start just re-spinning the same more and more absurd plot lines.
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Or they form a coalition to control various body parts.
I’m sure the fish oil will fix it
The first brain worm already died.
Of starvation.
One day is no big deal. If he really wants to make his point, he should do it every day for a month.
(Leave the grandkids at home, though.)
I can be a big deal if it gets in your nose and other areas
Yeah. I’m just trying to make his PR stunt sound insignificant because he definitely reads Lemmy and will care about my post lol
That man deserves dysentery
Go Darwin! 🎉
If ever someone truly deserved a Herman Cain award, it’s this man right here!
go go power Darwin!
With modern medicine, we have switched to survival of the richest.
Money won’t do shit for you if you’re too delusional to believe in modern medicine lol
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.
I wonder why he says we should fortify our immune system if he doesn’t think germs cause diseases? Like, what is the immune system doing making cells that can eat bacteria?
If there’s any upside to this man being an idiot by 14th century standards it’s that he’s more likely to get deathly ill.
Can someone arrest him for child endangerment?
Lol you can’t arrest a rich person, that’s not how this works
“Germ-theory skeptic”
For real just call him a reality skeptic and be done with it.
I would plead for someone to show this man a microscope but I fear the conclusions he might draw.