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.
What a shitty grandpa.
Good. Hope he catches at least one instance of every shit disease floating in there.
“Germ-theory skeptic”
I would plead for someone to show this man a microscope but I fear the conclusions he might draw.
For real just call him a reality skeptic and be done with it.
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.
O… Ok! The situation in taking care of itself.
Hope natural selection does its thing.
To him: yes. To his grandkids: no. They don’t deserve to get sick and possibly die just because their grandpa is an idiot.
He probably doesn’t believe in evolution
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.)
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
Seems like they should fix that sewage leak.
that means tearing up the park, I suspect that MOST people are happy enough just looking at the stream.
Maybe. I’m not familiar with the location. Typically sewage follows roads so it seems possible to minimize the damage. There’s also a way of re-lining pipes without removing them.
Not saying RFK JR ain’t a nasty bitch, but it’d also be nice if we didn’t leach sewage into streams.
He also drinks methylene blue as a treatment for bacterial infections
Also some places have gardia too
Can they just pour a bunch of bleach in?
How else will he get his parasites
Sorry, but cleaning up sewage is woke and dei.
Oh, gotcha! I’ll just throw my chamber pot out the window then.👍
The water is now less clean for having him in it
I’m team bacteria on this one. C’mon little guys - do your thing!
I think Goauld can control their metabolism sufficiently to be immune
