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It’s worth noting many of JFK’s health issues started after he developed scarlet fever, a common childhood illness that often left victims with damage to their kidneys, heart, joints and brain and sometimes triggered arthritis. There is no vaccine against it but RFK jr is trying to undermine the vaccination schedules for other common childhood illnesses that can cause permanent lifelong damage to a child’s health.

“I don’t understand. How does this refute what RFK jr. said?” Because many of JFK’s ailments may have been preventable/treatable with modern medicine. Because he needed amphetamines to function. Because the average life expectancy for men in 1960 was 66.6. People lived harder lives and died younger. Public health campaigns and infectious disease control and education helped immensely. People were not healthier during his uncle’s presidency because they did not have the tools and knowledge necessary to address many major public health concerns, we have them now and he is firing vaccine experts and literally swimming in shit creek. The average state of health in the 1960s was not better than it is today.

Many do not know about the state of JFK’s health because it was taboo. Because disability and ill health were things that were spoken of in hushed whispers. The Kennedys buried JFK’s health problems like they hid Rosemary after she was lobotomized. RFK jr wants to continue his rose-tinted view of a past constructed through blood and pain and ignorance. He is rewriting history in a way that is so obvious and so vile.

Also by "urinary tract infections" they mean "the clap"

JFK went so hard against the ‘sickly kid becomes a disabled adult who doesn’t get laid’ stereotype that he was still cheating on his wife with a roster of women while his spine dissolved and he was on a dozen medications. If a man is a dog, he’ll continue being a dog even while he is the president of the United States and suffering from a number of serious and debilitating health conditions.

I'm thinking I'd be hippopotamus

Moo!

Fun fact - a gargoyle is only a gargoyle if it has a water feature, otherwise it's called a grotesque. Either could be hideous depending on style, ofc 🤭

Autumn, or Herbst if I've been watching a German show.

I'm not much of a beach-going person but I'd love to be able to hear the waves at night.

Ugh fixing one problem always reveals another problem doesn’t it. Fixing the walls reveals a termite problem, fixing the anxiety reveals an adhd problem, cleaning out the garden shed releases the demons from the sacred toolbox, it’s never ending.

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I loved this film