Anti vaxxers believe illness is good for you, disease mitigations can harm you, and public health is a personal choice
Now, liberals and leftists do too
Excellent reporting by Julia Doubleday on how far right anti vaxx beliefs have been mainstreamed https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-joined-conservatives-to
"Fundamentally, anti-vaxxers believe that some people should survive, and others should not. Some people should have rights and privileges, others should not. Some people are superior, others inferior.
This deeply fascist belief is the beating heart of COVID normalization." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-joined-conservatives-to
Does it get anymore American than that? Prioritizing the safety of the vulnerable seems as opposed to our culture as it does being desirable. It is as though cruelty is the point.
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The vast majority of Fox News staff is vaccinated (the Fox Corporation actually mandated all NYC employees be vaccinated).
While this was decently well covered in the (non-right-wing) news, the filter bubble probably ensured that anti-vaxxers missed it. It's too bad we didn't get it up on billboards or something.
@taylorlorenz I understood from the start that herd immunity to a coronavirus was virtually impossible.
Getting the community immunity high enough to bring the R number under 1 was always the goal, as I saw it.
Seems too much pro-vax was anti-right and not an understanding of the science.
@taylorlorenz You are lumping people who don't trust the COVID vax in with the people who don't trust any vax. Which is disingenuous and aimed at belittling them.
As time passes and more data is accrued it seems that not taking an experimental drug made using experimental techniques and not tested properly or thoroughly as well as the very very dodgy mass production of the goop seems to have been the wiser choice. Especially for something with such a low death rate.
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