Most of these Republicans probably have been vaccinated in their childhood. It’s their children that will pay the price of their ignorance.
Person who has spent 20+ years studying viruses and how they effect the human body: “Vaccines are effective and safe.”
Random politician with very little science or medical education: “Vaccines are bad because <equally ignorant Podcaster> say they are.”
Republican voter: “I agree with the idiot politician.”
I’m a biostatisitcian who has taught several infectious disease epidemiology classes, and my hick-ass family doesn’t treat me like I know what I’m talking about.
Even my actually libertarian parents are voting for RFK Jr. RFK Jr. led the charge of anti vaxxing in Somoa during a measles outbreak. 63 children died. He went into black communties during covid and compared the RNA vaccine to the Tuskeegee experiments. Fuck antivaxxers and fuck RFK.
my actually libertarian parents are voting for RFK Jr. RFK Jr.
Strange choice considering Chase Oliver is actually a p decent candidate
Context is the left’s biggest weakness and the lack of it is the alt-rights greatest strength.
It’s easy to be short, quippy, and loud and much harder to be informed and detailed.
You’re right, but consider that virtually all forms of media have been working overtime to reduce average attention spans to the narrowest possible window over the past 20-30 years. This can make it much more difficult for the informed messages to register before that next notification fires off.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
These people are going to be responsible for a virus evolving into such a virulent strain that we’ll all be fucked because there won’t be a viable vaccine anymore.
Just wait until antibiotics stop working. That day will be a hell of a shit show.
It doesn’t work like that.
Although, the anti-vaxxers are the reason why we have about 8 different COVID vaccines right now.
I’d have to go back and double check, but the US only got up to ~75% with a single shot, ~60 with both, and less than ~40 with a booster.
Would have been nice to get this taken care of before it became endemic in the US.
One must think those 30% are the crazies. The Gaetz. The MTG. The Boebert. They’re just leading the party at the moment. Their handlers lost control to Russia. I believe we will see many changes to GOP over the next year
