They’re grifters, and unfortunately, I’m afraid this isn’t something unique to conservatives or the alt-right – there are probably just as many libtards who are willing to cash in on a good conspiracy theory or two. I recall the “9/11 was an inside job” troll job, which sucked in people of various political persuasions into their vortex.
Count on these sleazy opportunists to madly hype every injury and death occurring in temporal proximity to Covid-19 vaccination as somehow being related, no matter how implausible.
Some have already tried to blame Hank Aaron’s death on the vaccine he got two and a half weeks earlier.
One of the largest vaccination sites in the country briefly shut down Saturday afternoon because maskless, anti-vaccine protesters blocked the entrance, officials said.
For nearly an hour, thousands of motorists in line to get a coronavirus vaccine shot at Dodger Stadium were stalled as about 50 people demonstrating against immunization efforts caused officials to temporarily close the site’s gates, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman David Ortiz told The Washington Post.
The protesters, members of anti-vaccine and far-right groups, organized online, according to the Los Angeles Times, which first reported about the closure caused by the “SCAMDEMIC PROTEST/MARCH.”
“Please refrain from wearing Trump/MAGA attire as we want our statement to resonate with the sheeple,” a social media post for the planned demonstration said, according to the Times.
Remember that Tennessee nurse who briefly fainted after getting her Covid-19 vaccination?
Antivaxers and their Covid-19 “hoax” buddies are still harassing her and her family.
You ever stop to think that maybe we are not supposed to survive?
A while back, there was scifi anthology show. One episode dealt with aliens giving men a disease that would make them crazy and try to kill women in a religious zeal. This was meant to eradicate humans. The men kilt the wimmens, patted themselves on the back for how smart and moral they were, and treated the aliens as ‘angels’.
I am NOT suggesting that aliens are doing this. But maybe God is. We are marked for extinction. A flood or a meteor would be needlessly messy.
Also a short story, “The Screwfly Solution” by Raccoona Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr) which was an awesome story.
Notwithstanding all that, I was under the assumption that we (the species) were on the right track following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Obama and all that. Following Brexit and Trump and the various Trump spin-offs and hangovers, climate change deniers, covid deniers etc etc, I now fear that we will be undone by some sort of mass stupidity and ignorance. Somehow we really went off the rails.
Yep, that;s the one.
There aren’t enough eye rolls left in my head for this.
About damn time.
This is the first I’ve heard of these folks; I almost started a new thread for them since they touch on so many things: anti-vaxx, pro-Trump, pro-insurrection. And they have a PAC!
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Another take on this power couple:
Being pro-Trump, anti-vax etc is a good way to (in sales’ speak) “qualify” a list of people as gullible. They are ripe to be plucked.
Grifters gonna grift, gullible gonna get gulled
As I feared, anti-intellectualism is a big force in the Republican party. While people like Kennedy are shunned by most Democrats nowadays, the number of Republicans that like what he peddles is increasing. They are adopting something that was a fringe among all political affiliations, and are now in the process of turning it into a litmus test among the Republicans.
Just like they did with non fringe issues like evolution, social justice, climate change, cap-and-trade, and other items that were not supposed to be politicized or were accepted by many in all parties just a few decades ago.
Anti-vaxxers have historically been split between the far left and right but Trump seems to have tipped the scales towards the conservatives. Some day I hope conservatives will understand what a disaster he has been.
Just 12 people are behind 65% of the antivaxx disinformation on social media, according to this piece on NPR.
Remember when antivaxers told us they didn’t care about other people being reckless enough to get vaccinated, as long as they were free to refuse shots?
Cognitive dissonance. It’s a hellava drug.
My solution: Booking a vax appointment should be deemed a commitment to get the shot, and no-shows should be tracked down and compelled to take the shot, forcibly if necessary.