Vaccines shouldn't be political. What is wrong with some Republicans?
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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I can start but I think there's a character limit
Better just list what isn't wrong with them, because it's a much shorter list.
Here, I'll show it to you:
They figured out how to weaponize science-illiteracy like many authoritarians before them.
It's not always political, but it's always stupidity, and stupidity is worse on one side than the other.
You know, like facts having a liberal bias.
It's part of "don't trust gubment".
Nah, they might repeat that as a talking point but they're down with fascism, just like they'll bitch and moan about the pharmaceutical companies having a profit motive to lie without wanting to remove the profit motive from healthcare.
They're just liars and hypocrites who want their team, Team Racists and Bigots, to have total control and never forget it.
My theory is that it's a combination of lead poisoning from going to NASCAR races (which still used leaded gas until 2007 or so) and right wing media indoctrination, mainly Fox News.
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Total embrace of the paranoid style of politics.
A couple decades ago, these people would be ranting about how the reds are adding fluoride to the water to make American patriots infertile.
Previously, the paranoid style was less prominent. By acquiring control of large sectors of the media, a strategically important asset, they have widely propagated conspiratorial thinking at a scale that has never been seen before in the USA.
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These idiots are not only harming themselves and their children, they're harming and sometimes killing others who are medically prevented from receiving vaccinations. These scumbags are literally spreading disease.
Plague rats.
Actually it's worse than that, if you have enough unvaccinated people in an area you'll increase the viral load received by the local population. Vaccines raise immunity significantly, but don't make you fully immune. If you experience enough of a viral load despite being vaccinated you can still get sick. This is how outbreaks occur and why we're seeing them in low vaccination communities. These viruses then spreads to others that shouldn't normally get the virus. So in short it harms everyone including those vaccinated.
Every time I see some of my relatives, I make sure I bring up "oh, by the way shouldn't I be dead now? You made a pretty big fuss about how everyone who was vaccinated [would] be dead within a year"
It's always met with eye rolls and silence.
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That number is... eerily close to the percentage population estimated to be hardcore unshakeable Trumpers.
I guess 20 years ago this was a scandal
Another factor in Obama's favor at the time that Rogers didn't mention is that the original Republican candidate, Jack Ryan,[6] had been forced to suspend his candidacy after his divorce and custody records were released to the press, revealing that he had taken his former wife, actress Jeri Ryan,[7] to various sex clubs (including, in at least one case, a bondage club) and tried to have her perform sex acts on him out in the open.[8] Keyes was the GOP's last-minute replacement on the ticket after the sordid details of Ryan's divorce came out.
My dad contracted polio as a teen a year before the vaccine came out in our home country. Fuck people who think vaccines are dangerous. Ask my dad how well his legs work.
Same, but my mother.
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31% of Republicans so stupid their genes should be prevented from being passed down
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I suppose it's good news that this belief hurts them the most, but it's also a public health problem.
Yeah, their children will be wracked with disease complications and the whole country will be on the hook to help care for them.
Even worse, it forms a reservoir of disease that the most vulnerable of the population, those who have not/cannot be vaccinated, will suffer tremendously from.
I sincerely hope that 31% of Republicans contract Polio. Then maybe they'll shut the fuck up
If we had a way to quarantine them all together so they can't infect their unvaccinated kids, or anyone else who didn't ask to participate in their bullshit, I'd be fully on board. Unfortunately, we saw what those dipshits did with COVID.
Ahh, yes, if only the iron lung encapsulated the head of (R) to shut them up.
Wait until tetanus starts being a real issue again. It's actually pretty scary shit. In advanced stages it can make your muscles contract and spasm so hard your bones can fracture.
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This is gonna be the real maga legacy. A generation of kids that have to deal with the consequences of horrific, preventable, disease
There's this constant 30-35% of America. Get better lower third god damn.
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In comparison, 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners said it was "extremely important" this year, down slightly from 67 percent in 2019.
Well, that's disappointing. As someone who has spend many years in Europe, it's no wonder the rest of the developed world sees the US as dumb as a bag of rocks. It's just an unreal circus looking from the outside.
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I don't find that particularly surprising considering that this demographic votes Republican.
The good news is that number will go down over time.
Great and terrible example of the power that the right wing media bubble has on people and the damage it can cause. This isn't a political issue or a matter of opinion. This is objective and scientific, with extensive real world evidence of vaccines eradicating contagious diseases.
Vaccines are perhaps the single greatest public health breakthrough next to basic sanitation. People have been convinced of an objective, scientific falsehood that puts their own children and the public at large at risk of disease and death. This is brainwashing, full stop.
Antivaxxers existed before COVID, but they were the fringe. It's now a mainstream Republican belief manufactured out of thin air because COVID was bad for Trump politically and any improvement in the pandemic post-election was good for Biden. The stark partisan split proves it.
Yes, a sore arm and a mild fever are clearly worse than a life spent in an iron lung due to polio.
They are dumbasses. Weird, dumbasses.
31% of Republicans also say, "Hunter Biden made the moon trans and now we should nuke the sun as a threat to the moon!"
Fucking.weirdos.
Oh, sorry. Not 31%. That's actually their IQ.
Everyone likes to wag the finger when we call these people morons. What else are we supposed to call them?
31 percent of republicans are a danger to themselves, their families, and others...
scratch that.
better make it '100 percent'.
Always hearing about ~30 of GOP, followed by the dumbest shit.
They are also probably the same wankers who waste Blood banks time telling them they should set up "pure blood" donations or whatever.
Because I'm sure in an emergency, hospital staff have time to dick around and appease grown toddlers.
"About 15% of registered voters are stupid" isn't exactly news.
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