#Anti-vaxxers
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They are going to kill some kids, aren't they?
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The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it's still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses.
Anti-Vaxxers [Explained]
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Not current but still makes a good point.
#Covid#Qanon#anti-vaxxers#never trump#republican assholes#traitor trump#crooked donald#maga morons#neil degrasse tyson
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Republican low-iQanons want to make polio great again.
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Today is Super Tuesday. It's more than just presidential primaries.
Last night Rachel Maddow spotlighted some of the wack Republican candidates and wove them together to describe how bizarrely extremist the GOP has become. This is NOT your grandmother's Republican Party which gave us sane people like Gerald Ford or George Pataki.
If you are not taking the threat seriously then you just haven't been paying attention.
Ms. Maddow goes on to say that it's up to us to stop a MAGA Republican takeover of the US. We cannot rely on some legal gimmick to stop Trump.
In the words of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson: "Nobody will save us from us but us."
#super tuesday#primaries#rachel maddow#maga#republicans#extremism#conspiracy theories#anti-vaxxers#democracy vs. dictatorship#the far right#donald trump#civic involvement#register and vote#vote blue no matter who#election 2024#Youtube
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You're assuming he can read...
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The last two verses of this poem come with a Hefty /Sarcasm and/or /Irony tone indicator.
Another of the poems from my 2016 poetry chapbook, available as a paperback from Amazon. I was reminded of it, again, after I added to this post about the similar mindset between belief in Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria and the belief that vaccines cause autism.
From a Documentary on Science*
“It is miraculous,” the surgeon says,
“To place electrodes deep within the brain,
And see these patients, trembling in their chairs,
Each stand and walk, like normal people do,
And so regain their human dignity.”
The television host across from him
Nods placidly, with just the slightest smile.
The lighting, and the set, and cutaways,
All make it seem impossible to doubt
His words or deeds or hopes for all mankind.
But, still –
Perhaps it was like Santa Claus, you know,
A pretty fable Mother told to me,
To soften life’s hard edges for my sake,
When she had said that dignity was mine –
For me, alone, to squander or to keep.
But now I’ve learned the gray and dreary truth:
Whatever makes me worthy of esteem
Is held completely in the public trust
Revocable without recourse or right,
When strangers, in disgust, avert their eyes.
*It was a a three- or four-parter from the BBC, hosted by Brian Cox, which is now no longer archived on their site (Not that I'd be comfortable linking to the BBC, these days, anyway). And I watched it through pirated episodes on YouTube. This particular episode was focused on controversies in science, and the ethics of animal experimentation.
In this interview, the surgeon was defending the ethics of doing brain experiments on chimps (I think?) because it led to the ability to do this neurosurgery on his young patient, and bestow on him the dignity of being able to go to school, and not have to be cared for by nurses, etc..
And it made me so angry that I had to do several laps around the house in my wheelchair (and a few good bellows of rage) before I could calm down. Because that kid could have gone to school if the school had given him accommodations, and being cared for by nurses wouldn't have been degrading if they treated him with respect. No surgery necessary.
But this physician was acting like some kind of saint because he'd figured out how he could bestow the gift of dignity.
I altered his dialog in the first verse only enough to make it fit iambic pentameter, which wasn't much.
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Should I become gravely ill with covid enough that my life is threatened, I have but one last wish for that scenario:
To be locked in a room with as many anti-vaxxers as the room can fit, and given carte blanch to cough, sneeze, wheeze, and spread fluids around and on them until they either show symptoms or decide they've had enough and get vaccinated, whatever comes first.
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So at Diamond’s funeral, Silk claimed that she died from the COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine Diamond never took. She died from having COVID-19 while unvaccinated. Silk is a disgusting person.
Also Trump was there and he was asked to say some words about Diamond and he was like “I don’t know her.” Which... Fair. If you don’t know a person and you’re asked to talk about that person, what else can you say?
Of course he did know her, but his brain is so fried he probably forgot.
Edit: I guess he claimed that he didn’t know Silk, not Diamond. Whoops.
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This post is Genuinely Bad!
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Re: the post I just shared, I've often wondered if part of the reason the anti-vax movement has taken off so much in the last couple of decades is because child mortality is so low. No one alive today remembers a time when it was normal for 40-50% of all children to die before the age of 5.
We want to protect our children. We want to keep them safe. And we have lost a lot of the cultural memory that the way to keep children safe is by preventing disease as much as possible, with every single tool available at our disposal. We want to protect our children, and some people have been sucked into this belief where keeping your children safe means not giving them shots.
We don't remember what measles might do to a school full of young kids. We don't remember diphtheria outbreaks. We don't remember tuberculosis, or polio. And in the name of all that is holy, I pray that we never ever have to remember that again.
Get vaxxed y'all.
#anti-vaxxers#child mortality#seriously we are so damn lucky#and we've worked so hard#do not throw away this gift#we love vaccines#emily talks
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Why Legitimate Scientists and Doctors Debating RFK Jr. and Others is a Waste of Time
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Blatantly Partisan Party Review XI (NSW 2023): Informed Medical Options Party
Prior reviews: federal 2019, federal 2022
What I said before: “If there is one thing this party is profoundly uninformed about, it is medical options.” (federal 2022)
What I think this year: These bad-faith actors were active prior to the covid pandemic peddling misinformation about vaccination and fluoridation of drinking water. Of course, the pandemic only heated up their rhetoric, which seeks to undermine vaccines and other public health measures that are proven to be safe and effective.
Broadly put, this party supports all sorts of woo. Worse, they sow public doubt and hesitation during a pandemic. Their Q&A page actively tries to undermine confidence in medical science, disingenuously exaggerates scientific uncertainty, and casts responsible public health measures in an authoritarian and threatening light. If you want your teeth to fall out and to die of preventable diseases, this is the party for you.
Recommendation: Give the Informed Medical Options Party a weak or no preference.
Website: No.
#auspol#NSWvotes#NSWvotes2023#NSW#Election 2023#NSW election#Informed Medical Options Party#IMOP#uninformed medical options#anti-vaxxers#conspiracy theorists#utter plonkers#weak or no preference
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There are plenty of indications that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., politically disowned by the Kennedy family, is a stalking horse for Trump. Robert Reich makes the case for that at his Substack.
More evidence that RFK Junior is working for Trump (as if you needed it)
Trump and RFK Jr. share a lot of ground on conspiracy theories. Kennedy is an outright anti-vax conspiracy nutcase and Trump's MAGA cult is made up of a lot of science-loathing twits.
So if Republicans are counting on drawing votes away from Biden with RFK Jr., they could end up shooting themselves in the foot by dividing the anti-vax conspiracy vote.
The situation has at least some similarity to the topic of abortion. For decades, Republicans saw their anti-abortion fanaticism as a winner for them. But when the GOP US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade Republicans discovered how Americans really felt about reproductive freedom. Republican candidates are now hoping voters forget the party's decades of fanatical opposition to abortion.
If low information Dems who are nostalgic about the Kennedy years are made aware of the true nature of RFK Jr.'s leanings, then the major party candidate hurt most by him would be Donald Trump.
So it's helpful to speak up if you hear any Kennedy-curious chatter from reality-based individuals.
Anybody thinking that RFK Jr. is a true representative of Kennedy political philosophy should talk to his relatives.
Kennedy family members call RFK Jr.’s independent bid ‘dangerous to our country’
#rfk jr#mjt in kennedy clothing#anti-vaxxers#conspiracy theories#donald trump#rfk jr. is a stalking horse for trump#pedro x. molina#spoilers#election 2024#vote blue no matter who
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