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It seems like this will sort itself out.

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And take a lot of people down with them due to lack of herd immunity.

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Except that eventually it will destroy the herd immunity that keeps us safe. These easily eradicated diseases will mutate and vaccinated people will start getting sick.

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If only it would take care of the issue by only affecting those that weren’t vaccinated

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Excluding those that can’t be vaccinated for medical reasons.

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And infants. And these people’s own children.

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It won’t. This is just a symptom of the mass delusion 20% of Americans are afflicted with. They need cult deprogramming before they destroy the entire country.

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Mo Rons

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This is really a denial of the authority and expertise of public health officials. Vaccines COULD be more dangerous than the diseases they prevent (theoretically…doubt it has happened for other reasons), or at least have side effects that make the vaccines not worth giving to everyone. Like the smallpox vaccine isn’t given to everyone anymore because it just isn’t worth the cost/benefit analysis anymore.

But if a vaccine doesn’t pass the cost/benefit analysis, it doesn’t get approved for common use. That is the job of public health officials. So that 31% are all wrong if they mean “all vaccines” or “currently widely available vaccines” which they almost certainly do.

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Because smallpox was completely eradicated. It no longer exists in nature, due to…

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Gasp!

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Let’s start a program where we let people volunteer to catch the disease naturally. We lock them up in a quarantine building, and televise their horrible suffering.

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We don’t have to be cruel. We exiled Typhoid Mary to an island. Send all the anti-vaxxers to some island in Alaska and let them figure it out for themselves. Just make sure they can’t swim away or make a boat.

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I have a friend that lives on a farm. He told me they have had issues with rats one summer. Pest control didn’t help much.
So, his dad catched a live rat and but it on a bbq. That poor thing must have screeched like crazy. My friend said it was hard to witness.
The rats they had must have thought the same. Most of them left. The problem was solved.

So, if it needed a well documented case of a anti-vaxxer having a slow and painful death, and showing it on youtube or tictoc or insta to drop the number of anti-vaxxers from 30% to even only 20%, i think, overall, society would be better off and this one humans life was well spend, saving so many after it.

No, no /s. I dont condone violence. This is a “what if” thought experiment.

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Your friends dad should be shot. Fuck that guy.

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I’m pretty sure there were a lot of videos of people dying from COVID on the Internet. I don’t think it changed people’s minds. Belief is social, and many people don’t overcome that. If their in-group believes a thing, that’s what they believe.

Also don’t burn animals alive wtf.

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If you do that then you might get a few who are resistant to the diseases. They’ll get it multiple times, survive, and claim they are the master race when they return to society. It will be difficult to argue against that since they survived “The Great Quarantine”.

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They never let Typhoid Mary back off the island.

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Honestly needs to be a thing

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