Since the anti-vaccine crowd will believe just about anything they hear on Faux News about health. Here is the latest from Fax and Friends, the Rightwing news source for those having trouble with the truth.

Fox News host Pete Hegseth explained on Sunday that he doesn’t wash his hands because “germs are not a real thing.”

Following a commercial break, Fox & Friends co-host Jedediah Bila revealed that Hegseth had been munching on day-old pizza that was left on the set.

“Pizza Hut lasts for a long time,” Hegseth replied, defending himself. “My 2019 resolution is to say things on air that I say off air. I don’t think I’ve washed my hands for 10 years. Really, I don’t really wash my hands ever.”

“I inoculate myself,” he continued. “Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them. Therefore, they’re not real.”

Hegseth argued that his unsanitary habit leaves him immune to sickness.

“These hands look pretty clean to me,” he remarked.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/fox-fr ... -cant-see/

So let's go back to the day when men were men and start the 14th century all over again.

God help us.


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Bucolic wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:08 pm God help us.


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This.

Although there may be some selection advantages to think about here, so long as the germ-deniers don't give all the rest of us cholera.

Bucolic wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:08 pm God help us.


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That's exactly what these lunatics believe. It helped spread infections, disease and the airborne version of Plague.

Hand-washing is acknowledged by almost the entire medical profession to have been most significant development in stemming the spread of infection in medical history, even more than anti-biotics and vaccination.

I watched the video clip and I think he was being sarcastic, not serious. But at the same time it's dangerous these days to be sarcastic about such things because so many people will miss the point and think it's real. (Thank you, Republican public educamacation.)

Oh for fucks sake with these idiots.

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Yeah, agree w Eris. These guys are being an ass in TV, yucking it up at the cost of anti-vaxers.

Bisbee wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:45 pm Yeah, agree w Eris. These guys are being an ass in TV, yucking it up at the cost of anti-vaxers.

I hope you all are right but remember that people like this believe:
Vaccines cause autism, even though the doctor who proposed faked his data and has been stripped of his license and everything else.
Other people believe:

The earth is 6,000 years old.
Evolution is a fake.
Donald Trump is God's warrior, like Cyrus.
Demonstrably false statements by same are "The Truth"
Hordes of invaders are pouring in from the South
Liberals are nazis who want to kill babies.
Global warming is a socialist / Liberal / internationalist (ie, Jewish) plot to steal their jobs
Clean coal is real
There was no collusion with Russia
The Clintons are running a vast, criminal enterprise including a child sex trade
All 21 women (including Ivana) who accused Trump of sexual assault are lying
Nancy Pelosi is Satan
White Christians are the most oppressed minority in America.

So why WOULDN"T they believe hand-washing is another libtard / soshulizt / internationalist plot?

A part of me wants to try to educate them. Another part of me wants to say “Fuck them, let Mr Darwin weed them out.”
Which way I go depends on what kinda of day I’m having. I wonder how long it will be before I have just one kind of day all of the time.

HuckleberryFun wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:47 pm A part of me wants to try to educate them. Another part of me wants to say “Fuck them, let Mr Darwin weed them out.”
Which way I go depends on what kinda of day I’m having. I wonder how long it will be before I have just one kind of day all of the time.

No equivocating for me anymore, I'm in the "Get off my lawn" mode. Let Darwin have his day.

JColville wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:56 pm

HuckleberryFun wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:47 pm A part of me wants to try to educate them. Another part of me wants to say “Fuck them, let Mr Darwin weed them out.”
Which way I go depends on what kinda of day I’m having. I wonder how long it will be before I have just one kind of day all of the time.

No equivocating for me anymore, I'm in the "Get off my lawn" mode. Let Darwin have his day.

The ones who suffer are the children of such parents, who come down with whooping cough (in the UK), measles, chicken pox, mumps, flu, 5th, and soon diphtheria and tetanus, as well as all the other childhood diseases. In some countries they even believe polio vaccine is a Western plot (my father was a polio victim).

Where are the so-called "pro-life" hypocrites when it comes to children suffering diseases unnecessarily because of their parents' anti-Science beliefs?

OK: Here's a limit on religious freedom I can accept. Your beliefs don't entitle you, through your neglect, to infect me or my child with dangerous crippling and deadly diseases. There's a reason public schools require proof of immunizations, and, as far as I'm concerned, only being allergic to the vaccines is an acceptable excuse not to get them.

Back to the days before IGNAZ SEMMELWEIS, the father of infection control. Semmelweis deserved sainthood for his work. Europe also has a problem with measles immunization.

There were 72 deaths from measles in Europe in 2018 compared with 42 in 2017.

The European countries with the highest number of measles cases from January to December 2018 were:

Ukraine (53,218)
Serbia (5,076)
Israel (2,919)
France (2,913)
Italy (2,517)
Russian Federation (2,256)
Georgia (2,203)
Greece (2,193)
Albania (1,466)
Romania (1,087)

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47157020