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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.