• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I hope the Democrats open some investigations on RFK jr. That motherfucker needs to answer for his nonsense.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      19 hours ago

      Anti-vaxers are not forcing anyone not to get their kids vaccinated.

      These are Lewis county Amish, they choose to live like the 1700s when kids died every winter and they just made more kids. They just chalk it up to God’s will.

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        19 hours ago

        it doesn’t matter if they force anyone or not, vaccines rely on herd immunity because not everyone can get vaccinated. You mess with the ratio of vaccinated-unvaccinated people (by casting doubt or not vaccinating yourself when you are able to) and you reintroduce diseases that were kept under control before.

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          17 hours ago

          You miss the point: this cult refuses all medical and technological advances, and their people die for a variety of reasons related to refusal to allow medical intervention, at all ages. These are not MAGA Karens on Facebook.

          They exclude themselves from modern society (except to sell us quaint shit at markets that may or may not be from their farms). You think they give a fuck about herd immunity? Or impact on people outside their cult?

          Fucking quarantine them all.

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            6 hours ago

            The numbers of Amish (and Mennonites, since some are vaccine hesitant, too, AFAIK) is not large enough to push the numbers below herd immunity, though, is it?

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              Does it matter? Why can a group just pick and choose which parts of democratically agreed upon society they wish to ignore? I can’t say speeding limits are against my religion and just floor it without consequence.

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            13 hours ago

            How has a cult like that come to do such a thing if not from disinformation? and even without that, it is still possible that if all the other antivaxers existing made it bad enough that this cult got an actual infection.

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        17 hours ago

        Anti-vaxers are not forcing anyone not to get their kids vaccinated.

        Except they effectively are. They’re stripping the rest of us of herd immunity

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    Ah people thought JFK fucked a lot but RFK kept managed to fuck the whole country plus with his “health tips” in the same amount of time his uncle was in office.