Good God, vaccine hesitancy has gone from 12% to 26% among Republican parents in the last four years.
https://www.kff.org/health-information-and-trust/poll-finding/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-january-2025/
https://www.kff.org/health-information-and-trust/poll-finding/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-january-2025/
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The Covid vaccine absolutely slowed transmission and with appropriate uptake could have drastically reduced it but we will never know bc we never even got close. Oh and we are stopping research towards one that could protect.
Independents are separately tracked, but according to this data, Democrats are even slightly more diligent about vaccination than they were 3 years ago.
Not sure this is a ‘good gif’ issue as much as it is an inevitable outcome.
https://www.ccjm.org/content/91/9_suppl_1/S50
And now here we are. People are going to die.
https://bsky.app/profile/aozorasf.bsky.social/post/3lpceg5d7tc2b
Or the current one.
If only these adults were the only ones that will be hurt by their ignorance.
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-joined-conservatives-to
I wanted to follow up on this citation
"a recent study finding lockdown-era babies have healthier microbiomes and fewer allergies"
but the link is broken
https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/02/29/covid-19-pandemic-babies-more-likely-to-have-healthier-guts-to-suffer-fewer-food-allergies/
Trump took RFK Jr up on the offer. The anti science, anti vaccine cranks found a home with Trump and became a driver of policy.
Stop the both sidesing.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/how-oprah-helped-spread-anti-vaccine-pseudoscience/
... or is that too unethical and make us no better than them?
They paid influencers to spread it, sat back and watched it unfold.
It’s beyond evil.
For me Covid is a fainting memory. But I am increasingly afraid - and surprised tbh - that is has had a profoundly negative and lasting impact on democracy.
Science, data and facts be damned.
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3lpmdlye2mk2v
quick search…
eight billion doses of covid vaccine given, 55 cases of death afterward.
And there aren’t gatekeepers or guardrails to prevent that right now
We have to bring those back somehow. Ban Fox News and AI slop misinformation. Take control of media and news
Don't bother replying I know there were a lot more deaths by gun violence than the vaccine, let alone underlying causes but counted as vaccine deaths because the people who died *gasp* got the vaccine and it's pure happenstance
Way too many people: Did he have the vaccine?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification
The key is removing these ideologies from every single position of power and influence permanently
We know they are morons. If they weren’t morons, they wouldn’t have voted for Trump.
Covid made people lose their minds
Just remember not to write about things that are illegal on social media when you live in a police state.
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Whole conferences are dedicated to the "problem" of higher ed not attracting enough people who (checks notes) tend to reject the knowledge that higher ed produces.
https://direct.mit.edu/daed/article/151/4/98/113706/From-Anti-Government-to-Anti-Science-Why
As someone who had a psychotic break about 20 years ago...it is hard.
Therapist: [gestures around broadly] Not without reason.
He just refuses to accept it.
It' a start, but much too late.
Love how they claim the environment is too large for mankind to affect the weather but then complain about the urban heat island effect (manmade). It's getting hotter everywhere, not just large cities.
https://bsky.app/profile/delthefunk66.bsky.social/post/3lpmez53gw223
🤷♂️🤔
https://www.kff.org/about-us/
Team spirit is a drug.
https://bsky.app/profile/arbiteriapetus.bsky.social/post/3lid3wbbx322e
What we're being killed by is cripplingly insecure, isolated, and bored people. People unfulfilled by a boring, normal world, they internalized a more exciting fiction.
Low in intelligence but high in motivation is a trait combo behind so much human misery.
Seriously, I've been hearing these people for my entire adult life. Their kids never wear seatbelts and it's a terrible cycle.
#ICEisGESTAPO
(G)love Removal $10K….
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The poison is almost free
You pay for the return to health or… die
They’ll get vaccinated in no time.
1. Trump spearheaded the vax getting out faster (maybe the one good thing he did)
2. The pandemic got knocked out by the vax. It worked!
It was Republican elites who leveraged the pandemic to do this.
and the teacher allowed it. Have always dreamed of hearing the birds sing. My kids and their friends enjoyed riding in backseat knowing their conversations were unintelligible.
>cancel all the vaccines
>travel shut off because you're a plague nation
chat what do I do
Rest in pieces.
You get to choose the optimal argument based on how compelling it is and how it furthers your goals.
???????
It's bad enough for the liars and their idiot followers to win the Darwin Awards; they'll take all of us with them.
'Right Wing and unvaxxed is no way to go through life, son.'
She has an interesting study coming out in the next couple of weeks about zoonotic origins of covid.
Which is why the last administration should have launched a pr campaign featuring public figures who aren't divisive or testimonials from former anti-vaxers. You can't just lie down and let the weirdos dominate the narrative.
They don’t believe in science, technology, nor empathy for other humans
They are culturally ascendant in massive ways and spreading as rapidly as any political ideology in world history
Welcome to America’s self inflicted century of humiliation!
The rest of us just keep up those vaccines