RFK Jr Swims in Rock Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria

[Anonymous]

Our chief public health officer ladies and gentlemen!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/rfk-jr-rock-creek-bacteria.html

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

Rock Creek, which flows through much of Northwest Washington, is used to drain excess sewage and storm water during rainfall. The creek has widespread “fecal” contamination and high levels of bacteria, including E. coli, and the city has banned swimming in all of its waterways for more than 50 years because of the widespread contamination of Rock Creek and other nearby rivers.

“Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health,” the National Park Service wrote in an advisory on its website, adding “All District waterways are subject to a swim ban — this means wading, too!”

[Anonymous]

He is a clown.

[Anonymous]

In normal times it would be a call to clean up the creek: it’s crazy to rely on 100 year-old sewage pipes. Bit that seems like the least of our problems right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In normal times it would be a call to clean up the creek: it’s crazy to rely on 100 year-old sewage pipes. Bit that seems like the least of our problems right now.

DC is planning to build a tunnel that will reduce the amount of sewage that flows into Piney Branch and Rock Creek. But until then you're not supposed to be swimming in it--let alone taking young kids for a swim and posting about it on Insta like it's a smart thing to do.

[Anonymous]

So we don’t do gift links anymore, huh

[Anonymous]

Let's hope he caught something.

[Anonymous]

He deliberately put his grandchildren in danger by having them take a dip in that cesspool.

That's horrific judgement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In normal times it would be a call to clean up the creek: it’s crazy to rely on 100 year-old sewage pipes. Bit that seems like the least of our problems right now.

Do you live in DC? This work has been going on for years. There's a huge tunnel-digger thing inching its way under the city. They've closed the Soapstone Valley trail for it.

But yeah, Doctor Brainworm is an idiot. My friend's puppy nearly died from an infection it picked up in the creek.

[Anonymous]

It's just another way we (our poops) are fighting back against this oppression!

[Anonymous]

Not to mention it is not legal to wade in Rock Creek.

"All park areas are closed to swimming, wading, and bathing by people and household pets."
https://www.nps.gov/rocr/planyourvisit/rules-and-regulations.htm

[Anonymous]

I read the whole article to see if I could find any mention about WHY he chose to swim in Rock Creek given the bacteria. His office didn't provide any comments, but I did find this tidbit about other risky stunts he pulled in the past. He is not right in the head

It was the latest in a series of peculiar incidents related to Mr. Kennedy’s outdoorsman persona. As a teen in the 1970s, Mr. Kennedy earned a reputation as a reckless adventurer, eating bushmeat and enduring disease on trips to South America and on African safaris. He later earned notoriety for his handling of the carcasses of dead animals — including a whale and a baby bear.

Mr. Kennedy has also said that a parasitic worm had “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read the whole article to see if I could find any mention about WHY he chose to swim in Rock Creek given the bacteria. His office didn't provide any comments, but I did find this tidbit about other risky stunts he pulled in the past. He is not right in the head

It was the latest in a series of peculiar incidents related to Mr. Kennedy’s outdoorsman persona. As a teen in the 1970s, Mr. Kennedy earned a reputation as a reckless adventurer, eating bushmeat and enduring disease on trips to South America and on African safaris. He later earned notoriety for his handling of the carcasses of dead animals — including a whale and a baby bear.

Mr. Kennedy has also said that a parasitic worm had “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

RFK Jr killed a bear and left it in Central Park for fun. Caroline Kennedy talked about how he put baby chicks and mice in a blender to kill them and called him a predator. Yet the Republicans confirmed him to guard our nation's public health without issue. Elections have consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our chief public health officer ladies and gentlemen!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/rfk-jr-rock-creek-bacteria.html

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

Rock Creek, which flows through much of Northwest Washington, is used to drain excess sewage and storm water during rainfall. The creek has widespread “fecal” contamination and high levels of bacteria, including E. coli, and the city has banned swimming in all of its waterways for more than 50 years because of the widespread contamination of Rock Creek and other nearby rivers.

“Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health,” the National Park Service wrote in an advisory on its website, adding “All District waterways are subject to a swim ban — this means wading, too!”

Wow, an actual sh**hole. Not surprising.

Imagine his immunity level though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read the whole article to see if I could find any mention about WHY he chose to swim in Rock Creek given the bacteria. His office didn't provide any comments, but I did find this tidbit about other risky stunts he pulled in the past. He is not right in the head

It was the latest in a series of peculiar incidents related to Mr. Kennedy’s outdoorsman persona. As a teen in the 1970s, Mr. Kennedy earned a reputation as a reckless adventurer, eating bushmeat and enduring disease on trips to South America and on African safaris. He later earned notoriety for his handling of the carcasses of dead animals — including a whale and a baby bear.

Mr. Kennedy has also said that a parasitic worm had “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

That can happen anywhere that people have tapeworms and don't THROUGHLY wash their hands after defecating.

The eggs stick under the finger nails and then presto, into the food they handle and is eaten by others.

Just one of the many reasons I never eat at places where I don't know the cooks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So we don’t do gift links anymore, huh

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