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.
I think the fact that we pretty much crushed so many diseases via vaccines and other care in the 20th century that many forgot what it was like to live in the shadow of those diseases all the time. That lack of familiarity (the one thay spurred the acceptance of vaccines and treatment) is what is fueling this shit today.
Its completely insane this isnt legally child abuse. These people are allowed to try and kill their children for a cult.
Except the supreme court has said there needs to be a religious exemption to these things. So then it becomes voluntary. Then there’s some kind of cultural association attached to it (MAGA, for instance.)
Imo, other parents should be able to sue you/fine you if your kid gets the disease and your kid wasn’t vaccinated. Its a type of reckless behavior like speeding in a school zone or shitting on a sidewalk in front of a public toilet.
He hit all the stupid branches on the way down that Bigtree.
So unbelievably stupid.
No bro, it’s everyone else who is stupid. Bigtree is the true genius who is fighting back against the conspiracy of vaccines that have been perpetuated by evil powerful people for over a century.
Stop pushing the Qtip when you feel resistance.
Oh okay…
RFK jr isn’t powerful or evil at all…
Did you also think the New York real-estate monster was going to drain the swamp?
So stupid.
Sorry. I prefer my children alive.
The main reason lifespans were so short in the past was because so many kids died of disease that it pushed the avg lifespan down with it. I used to work to restore old cemeteries with my local historical society. I’d find family plots that would have 3-4 kids all dying within a few months of each other.
Im starting to feel these fools think they have the good genes that will throw off the disease and its those other undesirables that will die.
Everyone thinks they have strong immunity and good genes until it hits them in the face.
More like God’s Plan, these fools don’t understand genes, but yeah same outcome.
Did you know that Gandhi was an anti-vaxxer?
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defence of their conviction.
And
…there is absolutely no need to be afraid of small-pox.
I cannot also help feeling that vaccination is a violation of the dictates of religion and morality.
The vaccine is a filthy substance, and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.
Until he wasn’t.
I can’t sleep. These kiddies are fading away like little buds. I feel the weight of their deaths on my shoulders. I prevailed upon their parents not to get them vaccinated. Now the children are passing away. It may be, I am afraid, the result of my ignorance and obstinacy; and so I feel very unhappy.
It turns out that if you expose children, unprotected, to deadly diseases, they die.
I wonder who this fucknut is gonna blame when his kids take an “unexpected” turn for the worse?
Well, seems like he learned his lesson. Would have been better if he had learned it before his bad advice got children killed, but at least he learned instead of doubling down.
Of the 4 Chaos gods of Warhammer, I could understand people being tempted by power, sex or violence, but disease never made sense to me. Who would want to be a Nurgle cultist? Now we know.
Because Papa Nurgle loves you!
Having delved a little into that lore myself out of the same curiosity I learned that it’s actually a very appealing temptation in the warhammer 40k lore, it’s a promise of painless immortality and a perpetual celebration of the cycle of life and death. You don’t mind that you become a rotten, bloated monster filled with bugs… because you feel great and feel the warm embrace of a divine being that you know you will become a part of one day. It’s like distilled religion, with all the body-horror that goes with religion amped up to eleven.
Also, the people who are convinced to pledge their perpetual loyalty are usually victims of Nurgle’s own plagues and horrific diseases so the people who succumb are a bit “motivated” to make the pain and suffering end.
As with everything in the franchise, there is a direct allegory here to the way religions or imperialist ideologies spread, cause direct, targeted harm to the people, and then forces those people to either be consumed by the movement that is harming them or be killed.
Nurgle grants eternal life, after a fashion. Easier for me to understand than these IRL death cultists…
Worshipping Anthraxus
This is the problem with vaccines, they’ve been so successful that demagogues and morons exploit the fading memory of diseases to play on people’s ignorance and our fears from not understanding medicine and biology.
Same reason the US could bring back fascism. It’s easy for people who’ve never been touched by disease/war etc to believe it’s just always been like this. They don’t see the lives lost, the knowledge gained, or the lessons learned that gave them their privileges.
sadly, most human beings trust their own ‘judgement’ of direct and anecdotal experiences far more than they will ever trust the abstractions of science and mathematics that prove them wrong
“I genuinely am upset that your kids are vaccinated, because it’s keeping my kids from getting chickenpox. It’s keeping my kids from getting measles,” he told me. “I believe their health depends on them catching those live viruses.” I asked him if he wanted his kids to catch all of the illnesses against which American children are routinely vaccinated. “Yes,”
To me that really sounds a whole heck of a lot like an open admittance that he’d like his children to die painfully.
I wonder if a big part of his psychology here is that by being the contrarian and going against X you create the illusion that you are wiser that others. The hipster effect.
On the plus side people like this weed themselves out of the gene pool. Too bad he is taking his kids down with him.
hipster effect, that’s a good one. every hipster i know is a raging insufferable hypocrite who rallies against ‘the man’. meanwhile endlessly chasing after ‘alt’ versions of the same shit everyone else is chasing after to prove how successful and superior they are. they will hate on Brooks Brothers wearing people, but they are willing to spend $100 for one ironic T shirt…
all image, no substance.
Taking his kids down with him is kinda necessary to be removed from the gene pool.
Well how about you die mad you abusive piece of shit?
Good. I hope he gets so mad from people getting vaccinated that he just explodes.
We can just call this guy a “virus advocate”.
Finally, someone is speaking up for dna/rna bundles.
This guy was less evil.
remember the MAGATS that were posting “plague spreading memes” on thier social media. Its on anti-vaxxers who take advice from a heroin, cocaine, steroid addict.
pertussis , rsv is one of those disease that is the reverse for adults, more severe in children than adults.
