57% of Republicans support school vaccine requirements, down from 79% in 2019 www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... - ThreadSky

conradhackett.bsky.social • 541 days ago

57% of Republicans support school vaccine requirements, down from 79% in 2019
https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/05/16/americans-largely-positive-views-of-childhood-vaccines-hold-steady/

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lproulx.bsky.social•541 days ago

So:
When your kid dies it's a tragedy. When someone else's kid dies, it's nature take it's course.
Yeesh.

jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social•541 days ago

this is so depressing

csburton.bsky.social•541 days ago

We (collectively) are going to absolutely eradicate ourselves by being stupid, aren't we

nocleverhandle.bsky.social•541 days ago

Anti-vax nonsense used to be a pretty latitudinarian species of stupid... past few years, it's gone nearly entirely right wing.

kitsune.garden•541 days ago

A big part of it is that anti-vax has always been dangerously close to, if not falling in to, conspiracy thinking. Unfortunately, conspiracy thinking both lends itself to further conspiracy thinking, and it's easy for people to use those hooks to drag in more unsuspecting victims.

geekgrammy.com•541 days ago

Polio likes this.

nosajlaroc.bsky.social•541 days ago

GOPers dumber than hell at the expense of their own families. At this point, fuck em.

richardaiguy.bsky.social•541 days ago

I certainly understand that sentiment, and if it was just them, sure.

But thr GQP thinking will put immunocompromised kids at risk, who are at no fault.

More so, it gives viruses dangerous mutation opportunities. This conservative thinking is apocalyptic shit.

nosajlaroc.bsky.social•541 days ago

No, no, i absolutely agree with you. They’re no just putting themselves at risk, but literally everyone that interacts with them. It’s that same selfish, pigheaded thinking that got us here in the first place: unchecked opportunities for a virus like this to mutate.

nosajlaroc.bsky.social•541 days ago

And the worst part about it is that almost nothing will change their mind.

richardaiguy.bsky.social•541 days ago

Nope, not a thing. It's a death cult.

richardaiguy.bsky.social•541 days ago

Oh, I completely understood your sentiment, I just wanted to make sure that was something that people consider.

This is utter lunacy, and I'll never understand it.

thejcobb.bsky.social•541 days ago

Smaller sample size, or nah? Bc, there’s gotta be less Republicans now right? I mean, that’s just math.

mrsnarkypants.bsky.social•541 days ago

I just don’t understand this. How did we get here?

jeanjeanie.bsky.social•541 days ago

Because the GOP has gone full cult.

maver42.bsky.social•541 days ago

Because COVID was politicized and COVID denial became the GOP stance

goosname.bsky.social•541 days ago

Vaccines are good. Therefore, educated people think they are good. Therefore, Republicans think they are bad. I actually don’t think it’s anything deeper than that.

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