This doesn’t sound like my childhood swimmin’ hole.
“Swimming and wading are not allowed due to high bacteria levels,” the National Park Service states on its website. “Stay out of the water to protect streambanks, plants, and animals and keep you and your family (including pets!) safe from illness.”
In addition to the high levels of bacteria, the waterway also has “other infectious pathogens,” making swimming, wading, and any other water contact a “hazard” for humans and pets alike.
I wouldn’t go anywhere near it, and I’m a guy who went swimming in a cow pond when I was 14, wondering what the squishy stuff I was wading through was. I’ve encountered places like that before, I would never do that again! One thing worse would be wading into human waste.
“Getting into Rock Creek anywhere inside the Beltway is sort of weird and kooky, getting into Rock Creek downstream from the National Zoo is bugnuts. Basically begging for a zoonotic parasite. Forget Chinese wet markets, this guy is cooking up COVID-25 inside his grandkids.”
Yeah, don’t bring children into such a place. Who would do such a thing? Would you believe the head of Health and Human Services?
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went swimming with his grandchildren in Rock Creek in Washington, D.C., even amid warnings that the waterway isn’t safe for swimming because of high bacterial levels.
Kennedy wrote on X that he went on a “Mother’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson” and took “a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat and Cassius in Rock Creek.”
The 71-year-old posted a number of photos, showing him shirtless, jeans on, in the water in the Potomac River tributary.
The man is an absolute legend. He’s bathing in effluent and eating rotting road kill; of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, he’d be Pestilence. And he’s in charge of American health!
I joke that they worship Nergal, the Warhammer Chaos God of disease, but I worry it’s real with stories like this. Plague rats.
@ #1: It’s “Nurgle”.
Nergal is the lead singer of metal band Behemoth
Who is a bit of an edgelord but nowhere near as pestilential as RFK
Yet more evidence that Junior denies the entire germ theory of disease.
This is not normal behaviour. Not even eccentric, like say Bob Katter in Australia. There are some circuits shorted out in that man’s brain.
Can he be persuaded to do something that would finish him without hurting anyone else? Surfing inside kilauea perhaps?
The current “wellness” trend is toward “soft” eugenics and claiming all disease is a result of bad nutrition and lack of exercise: The “strong” never get ill. Only the weak get sick, and they deserve it.
Please let him get dysentery.
@1. Recursive Rabbit : FWIW Nergal was a Babylonian / Sumerian / Mesopotamian god :
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nergal
Which gave its name to Nirgal vallis on Mars :
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirgal_Vallis
Plus a crater on Ganymede too that is distinctive because of a flow structure that was :
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nergal_(crater)
See photo there – does look quite intresting and unusual I reckon.
@8 yes, my first reaction was also: please, please, please…
@5. rorschach : “This is not normal behaviour. Not even eccentric, like say Bob Katter in Australia. There are some circuits shorted out in that man’s brain.”
Shorted out – or eaten by that brainworm?
More seriously perhaps RFK Jr here is suffering something like toxoplasmosis which apparently changes behaviour to more risk-taking, reckless and likely toget the host injgeste dby a better host behaviour. Or liek teh Cordyceps fungi and insects..
Yeah, something’s certainly not right at all w RFK Jr. Here’s hoping it just takes him out and doesn’t take too many – indeed any – others out with him.
There was a cow pond near one of my grandparents where grandaddy would fish…it was stocked…but no one ever considered swimming in it. The cows were standing in it 30 feet away doing their business, not to mention all the rain water that ran into from the surrounding pasture. Seemed pretty obvious to stay out of it. Swimming generally happened in rivers or at the beaches which were relatively safer environments.
The Lagoon at the Marin Civic Center is large pond of rain runoff water from the surrounding hills. It’s not posted for “No Swimming” but I’ve never seen anyone swimming in it. A few old fellows stand in it to practice fly casting but they wear waders. As rain water run off it’s probably infested with all sorts of things. It has so many nutrients from lawn fertilizers that the county is constantly fighting the algae buildup.
I assume the parents of the children are as unhinged as he is? I pity the poor kids. Also, RFKJ is not going to get sick from this, is he? This universe seems to have a nasty habit of protecting the health of evil people at all costs.
RFK Jr. was conceived when his dad fucked Hedorah the Japanese pollution monster
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=46p5qFj7Oq0
I recall years ago standing at the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico and noted the unsafe swimming warning signs due to bacterial levels. That would be enough to dissuade me, but what I know as a member of the germ theory cult. That damn microbiology course I took with a lab.
I think RFK Jr should go and eat shit. Literally.
Those warnings and prohibitions are just gubmint overreach, doncha know.
I always ignore all the warning signs and barriers when I visit Grand Canyon because, you know, that’s just The Man trying to oppress me.
RFKJr is overdue for being consumed by Flesh Eating Bacteria.
@1 Rabbit, @3 bravus
“I joke that they worship Nergal, the Warhammer Chaos God of disease”
Nergal is bit older than Warhammer or metal bands, by a couple of thousand years, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nergal
Snarki, child of Loki
I am rooting for the brain eating amoebas to finish the job the worm started. He needs something with 100% fatality rate. I just wonder how far it would progress before someone noticed.
Maybe robert F*cking Kennedy Jr. thinks, ‘what the hell, I can’t get any more diseased than I already am’.
It is difficult to believe the huge number of insane, incompetent people tRUMP has included in his administration!
cue Martha and the Vandellas, nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide.
Oh, and with the magats destroying all the regulatory and health agencies, boosting fossil fuel f*ckheads, and coal-rolling aholes, the complete fouling and destruction of the environment is bound to happen soon!
another chorus of: Martha and the Vandellas, nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide.
If he got a brain-eating amoeba infection, would anyone notice?
Okay, okay, I’ll double-check I’m referring to the right deity next time.
@21: The amoeba. Because it would starve.
Autobot, :)
@1 No, he worships the great Horned Rat, and MAGAts are the Skaven of our universe.