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Connecticut State Senator Bob Duff is at it again, railing on the "anti vax" community and saying they are "full of it" after sharing a Fox News screenshot about the recent rise in U.S. measles cases.
Of course, Duff took a lot of heat in the comments from medical freedom proponents.
Some people pointed out that measles vaccines are not 100% effective, and even the CDC admits that up to 10% of those vaccinated experience "breakthrough" cases.
Others placed at least some blame on the explosion in illegal immigration under Biden.
Not Duff, though, who placed the blame squarely on the unvaccinated who "believe the BS coming from MAGA, Trump, Kennedy, and the rest of the kooks."
He further argued that the unvaccinated are "making us unhealthy, sick and putting people's lives in danger."
It's no secret that Duff despises people who decline vaccines.
Over the years Duff has described the "anti vax" community as... a cult; a dangerous vocal minority; putting all children in harm's way; responsible for spreading "fear, lies and misinformation" and causing "immeasurable" death; puppets being led to their death by their fully-vaccinated puppet masters; the "same people" as the "Jan 6th insurrectionists"; the "offspring of Q’Anon movement"; bullies who constantly threaten politicians; and the "most aggressive, hostile, rudest and threatening group of people I have ever experienced as a legislator."
He suggested that being in favor of medical freedom is bad for politics, and said "there is no middle ground" on the issue of vaccination.
And he LOVED covid vaccines.
So much so that he issued a statement after a "Republican hearing of anti-vaxxers" in September 2021 just to repeat the Big Pharma "line" that covid vaccines were safe and effective, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
The "Republican hearing" was with health care workers, teachers, and bus drivers who were being threatened with losing their jobs if they didn't succumb to covid vaccine mandates.
“We all must ignore the lies around COVID, trust the science, and speak only to the facts. The COVID vaccine is safe, effective, and will save lives. People are needlessly dying for failing to act responsibly. Get vaccinated,” said Duff in a joint September 22, 2021 statement with Martin Looney.
That same month Duff signed a joint statement with his Democrat colleagues over the increasing pushback and protests over covid vaccine mandates.
"Protesters in Connecticut are angry and on the edge, and they are getting angrier," the statement said. "It is only a matter of time until a small, angry group of individuals or one particularly disturbed person who is egged on with disinformation and partisan hubris escalates from spitting and hand gestures and screams of Nazism and criminal behavior to something much more dangerous."
More recently, in November 2025, Duff and Looney blasted the CDC for "suggesting a link between childhood vaccines and autism."
“It is deeply troubling that the CDC is now defending thoroughly debunked misinformation about vaccines and autism,” said Duff and Looney. “Promoting long-disproven health care myths will result in needless illness and deaths in our country. This chaos and confusion are what happen when President Trump appoints discredited kooks and conspiracy theorists to critical government roles. We call on Connecticut Republicans to join us and our state’s public health experts in reaffirming the overwhelming medical consensus: vaccines are safe, effective, and critical to protecting our communities.”
Now he's angry about the rise in measles cases.
Measles In 2025
The CDC is currently reporting 2,012 cases of measles for 2025, including 527 cases in children under age five, 835 cases in children aged 5-19, and 637 cases in adults over 20; the age was unknown for 13 cases. The vaccination status was "unvaccinated or unknown" for 93% of cases, while 7% of cases occurred in people who had been vaccinated with either one or two doses of an MMR vaccine. A total of 227 individuals (11%) required hospitalization, and three people (0.15%) died.
It's important to note there are side effects to measles vaccines.
The CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System reports 105,806 total events tied to measles vaccines, including 1,818 febrile seizures; 858 reports of autism; 120 deaths; and 17 cases of sudden infant death syndrome.
Polly Tommey from Children's Health Defense (CHD) previously interviewed parents whose children were injured or killed as a result of an adverse reaction to the MMR vaccine, and lamented that MMR vaccines can cause "catastrophic” devastation.
“Not only does the vaccine hardly work, it can and has killed children. I know because I’ve interviewed the parents," she said. "So much brain injury, life-altering gut issues, to mention a few.”
Tommey said measles “is not much fun” but its symptoms don’t last long, and “with proper care and rest, children bounce back very quickly.”
Brian Hooker, Ph.D., and chief scientific officer for CHD, questioned whether measles needs to be prevented with a vaccine in the first place, pointing out that case mortality for measles before the vaccine was introduced was 2 in 10,000.
Hooker also recalled fake news about three deaths wrongly attributed to measles.
“We know that the two girls who died in West Texas died due to improperly treated bacterial pneumonia. And in the third case of an adult in New Mexico, the individual denied all medical treatment and was diagnosed with measles only via RT-PCR during their autopsy,” Hooker said.
Pediatrician Dr. Michelle Perro said "natural measles infection produces long-lasting, lifelong immunity — a feature recognized in classical infectious-disease epidemiology," though added that no one specifically recommends trying to get infected.
She also said that while the current outbreak is being blamed on the unvaccinated, such outbreaks “have historically included both vaccinated and unvaccinated people.”
“No vaccine provides 100% immunity, and secondary vaccine failure — waning immunity years after vaccination — has been documented in the literature. Breakthrough cases are generally milder, but they do occur, and understanding those patterns is essential to a complete epidemiologic picture,” Perro said.
By the way, Mary Holland, the CEO of CHD, warned in April 2025 about the "measles playbook" being deployed by Big Pharma and how children would be used as pawns.
She said the statement "vaccines are safer than measles infection" is not supported by fact.
"In fact, between 2000 and 2024, nine measles-related deaths were reported to the CDC. During the same period, 141 deaths following MMR or MMRV vaccination were reported in the U.S. to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) — suggesting the MMR vaccine can be deadlier than measles."
"This latest round of attacks on the health freedom movement is a measure of pharma’s fear. We are winning. Pharma knows it," Holland asserted back in April.
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Bob Duff is Marxist to his core. He seeks control over CT society and continually passes legislation designed to advance his ideology. He squashes the rights of the individual, always in favor of his definition of the needs of the Collective. We must mount a concerted effort to remove him from our state senate seat to which he clings, despite the interests of the citizenry.
Please give this guy an IQ test. We should have some “standards” for public office!