31% of Republicans say vaccines are more dangerous than diseases they prevent
The partisan divide on vaccine falsehoods threatens the health of children nationwide.
Most of these Republicans probably have been vaccinated in their childhood. It's their children that will pay the price of their ignorance.
They'll learn the hard way. And then their blood line will disappear.
That’s not how vaccines and herd immunity work. We’re ALL going to learn the hard way.
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.
taught several infectious disease epidemiology classes
Thanks for doing what you do, even if there's ignorant people in the world that don't believe you.
He went into black communties during covid and compared the RNA vaccine to the Tuskeegee experiments
daaaaamn I didn't know he did that, that is deeply fucked up
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.
Honestly needs to be a thing
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.
And these are the same sort of people who don't go through the full course because "I feel better now."
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
It's almost like the diseases aren't bad specifically because we have vaccines.
These dumbfucks don't see the danger because we spent so much time, effort, and money to make them not so bad. I'm sure there is a name for this phenomenon. Idiocy, maybe?
31% of republicans won't be voting for long
Sadly they spawn like roaches so there are plenty of replacement morons.
That's not even a bad number, honestly, I expected the percentage to be much higher, especially after the world-wide drama around COVID vaccines.
Maybe the number would have been higher, but it's self-correcting.
Stupid fucks. My father nearly died from polio. And these assholes wanna bring it back.
Well I say Republicans are more dangerous than the diseases they cause.
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.
Because smallpox was completely eradicated. It no longer exists in nature, due to...
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Gasp!
Their terms are acceptable as long as they sign waivers that they will not seek medical help for those illnesses.
Nah, let them get medical help. The waivers just say that they get bumped if someone who is taking precautions, or had a medical exemption for vaccines, gets sick.
I don't care if they're on a ventilator and unable to move, if some immunodeficient kid who couldn't get the shot needs that spot, just wheel the anti vaxxer into the hallway and let them croak.
F*ck AI... Can we please invent cryosleep, so that we can skip the next 50 years of this timeline and wake up when it's over without aging?
The genie grants your wish. Everyone on Earth at the moment of the wish emerges from cryosleep 50 years from now with no memory of how they got into the cryosleep pod, nor how they got to it, and worse, as well rested as they were right before the event happened. Important parts of infrastructure have crumbled in our absence. Nature has taken back over.
Mankind finds itself with different problems, but are they any better?
Interesting, like a viral suppressant, letting earth heal.
Bold of you to assume that things will be better in 50 years.
Translation - 31% of Republicans are braindead ignorants
It seems like this will sort itself out.
And take a lot of people down with them due to lack of herd immunity.
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.
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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