Lets see here...
Rabies => nearly 100% death rate, and it's only pretty recently it's not 100% with modern non vaccine treatments.
Rabies Vaccine => 100% effective at preventing death.
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Yes, a sore arm and a mild fever are clearly worse than a life spent in an iron lung due to polio.
They are also probably the same wankers who waste Blood banks time telling them they should set up "pure blood" donations or whatever.
Because I'm sure in an emergency, hospital staff have time to dick around and appease grown toddlers.
Oh, sorry. Not 31%. That's actually their IQ.
At least they aren't out burning witches.
Yet
It will be trans people first
31% of Republicans also say, "Hunter Biden made the moon trans and now we should nuke the sun as a threat to the moon!"
Fucking.weirdos.
Always hearing about ~30 of GOP, followed by the dumbest shit.
"About 15% of registered voters are stupid" isn't exactly news.
That 31% has no place in society.
Only a matter of time with that philosophy.
Great and terrible example of the power that the right wing media bubble has on people and the damage it can cause. This isn't a political issue or a matter of opinion. This is objective and scientific, with extensive real world evidence of vaccines eradicating contagious diseases.
Vaccines are perhaps the single greatest public health breakthrough next to basic sanitation. People have been convinced of an objective, scientific falsehood that puts their own children and the public at large at risk of disease and death. This is brainwashing, full stop.
Antivaxxers existed before COVID, but they were the fringe. It's now a mainstream Republican belief manufactured out of thin air because COVID was bad for Trump politically and any improvement in the pandemic post-election was good for Biden. The stark partisan split proves it.
In comparison, 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners said it was "extremely important" this year, down slightly from 67 percent in 2019.
Well, that's disappointing. As someone who has spend many years in Europe, it's no wonder the rest of the developed world sees the US as dumb as a bag of rocks. It's just an unreal circus looking from the outside.
We've seen a bonanza of quack medicine in the US over the last few decades. Homeopathy, chiropractory, ivermectin, gay conversion therapy, MyPillow, sci-fi style medbeds... All this shit getting pushed hard by con-artists who suffer little to no pushback and reap enormous financial returns from a gullible audience. And that sets off a vicious cycle of more nefarious advertisements, more hoaxes, more political enablement, and more people lured to their deaths for the profit of others.
Americans aren't simply stupid by their nature. They're deliberately and systematically misinformed over entire lifetimes by a well-financed propaganda machine.
The anti-vaccine movement is easily the biggest tragedy of our time. The consequences have not yet hit in earnest.
Wait until tetanus starts being a real issue again. It's actually pretty scary shit. In advanced stages it can make your muscles contract and spasm so hard your bones can fracture.
At least tetanus isn't really person-to-person transmissible
That's true, but I figure it's common enough and an entirely preventable illness.
It's one of those examples of the vaccine working so well that the population completely forgot how bad it can be and that it's a very slow and terrible way to die.
Yeah, my only point was more that at least the antivaxxers will only be hurting themselves and (unfortunately) their children, not risking other people like with covid
There's this constant 30-35% of America. Get better lower third god damn.
15-20%, since less than half of the US votes republican.
Considering the number of unregistered and independent voters... Very well could be less than that.
I don't find that particularly surprising considering that this demographic votes Republican.
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