Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water

Wtf did i just read? The US health secretary swimming in shit water???????

Stop calling everyone a "skeptic" and call them what they are: deniers. Anti-science, fact resistant deniers. Calling people germ-theory skeptics, or climate skeptics, or vaccine skeptics, and so on and so on, makes it sound like there's an honest scientific debate going on

"Germ-theory skeptic"

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?

I'm team bacteria on this one. C'mon little guys - do your thing!

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.

Wouldn't it be an absolute riot of a "leopards ate my face" situation if he ends up croaking because of this?

To clarify: I don't wish any harm on his grandchildren, but this man's level of willful ignorance and sheer recklessness makes it hard for me to sympathize with any negative outcome he may suffer personally.

the creek's bacterial counts—particularly E. coli counts—were dangerously high all the time.

Sorry for those children.

How can the onion ever hope to compete with reality

...maybe this problem will solve itself?

go go power Darwin!

Hope natural selection does its thing.

Stuff like this isn't a problem, until it is.

What was in that sewage? Anybody with typhoid? Diphtheria? Probably not because vaccination and treatment is still over herd immunity levels. Then, of course, there were the kids who used to get vaccinated for Polio naturally by exposure to untreated sewage, and us rich countries having terrible cases of polio survival in older people because we didn't bathe in toilet outflows.

Thing is, it's a numbers game. The first hundred people might not get sick, immediately, but if you form two lines, one bathing in the sewage pool and the other bathing in a treated sanitary pool, run 100 people a day through each one and track them for two weeks, you'll see the differences. That's why we have scientific publications, so we can read about these kinds of past experiments and don't have to repeat them.

I hope he gets sick and suffers

Maybe we can convince him to drink some of it

During similar conditions in the past it has had around 100x the EPA standard of bacterial colonies.

And he's hypocritical enough that I bet he started an antibiotic cocktail before he went there.

Can someone arrest him for child endangerment?

Our best chance is that he gets one of these diseases that is effectively treatable with a vaccine.

Thing is, even with that, he'd just take the vaccine and proceed to lie about it for profit. His father must be turning over in his grave.

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.

The fact that people have any thought that this guy is smart or a good person makes me hate humanity.

I'm rooting for chlorea here tbh.

Seems like they should fix that sewage leak.

I love that we're literally going back in time. They thought we'd have flying cars and end world hunger, but instead we have to watch our politicians swim in shit water.

Edit: HE TOOK HIS GRANDCHILDREN!?

That little girl looks like she's even sick of grandpa's shit. Hair is bone dry in every photo and the only one of her actually in contact with the water, she's kicking it in his face. She honestly looks visibly upset when he's dangling her brother over it.

I think I know how a lot of people are thinking right about now. lol

If ever someone truly deserved a Herman Cain award, it's this man right here!

Hopefully C Diff will catch a RFK Jr.

What a shitty grandpa.

Steve-O can't compete with this man

That man deserves dysentery

Let him swim in the Seine!!!

RFK Jr entered into a tontine with himself. He's the only member.

Go Darwin! 🎉

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.)

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.

In my state if you swim in any body of water it's almost always tainted somehow, maybe not with sewage but perhaps some other toxic pollutant. The only exception I can think of is the man-made reservoirs used for drinking water that people swim...

and pee in.

So brain worms are back on the menu?

Fucker probably found the least contaminated part for this stunt.

Ok so what is the most obvious, unhide-able , agonizing, and debilitating disease he can get from this?

Because I hope he gets 330 million cases of it.

Is he sewage-skeptic too?

THIS IS NOT ROCK CREEK FFS

Everyone including major media sources is parroting what RFK Jr. said in his instagram account as if it's gospel. Go to google maps. Look at Rock Creek. Look how big it is. This is not Rock Creek.

Don't worry, he put a spiritual spin on it (probably) so it's ok, it's actually cleansing you see!

How is he still alive?

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?

The germaphobia in me is trying to figure out this thought process... 🤔🧐

Since then, he’s grown a pair of arms and is now trying to conquer the world

this guys gonna get the fucking Darwin award if he keeps doing this 🤦

Good. Hope he catches at least one instance of every shit disease floating in there.

I wonder if he started with the conspiracy theories after swimming in this stream for the first time