This is more then a little reminiscent of outcries in third world countries claiming vaccinations will sterilize or kill children and are the work of a) the devil, b) evil foreigners, c) whatever party you oppose, d) the government, e) all of the above.
These people have absolutely no knowledge of history and of what incredible miracles vaccinations are. It’s almost as though there should be manufactured outbreaks every 15-20 years or so in order for these ahistorical idiots to understand. I’m not recommending that, but as someone who was a small child when polio vaccines first started, I remember the excitement around their discovery and I know people for whom the vaccinations came too late.
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Nailed it. Thank you.
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So the GOP is on record as wanting people to catch deadly diseases which are preventable by getting a vaccination.
Just when you think a party can’t get any stupider.
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Yeah, too bad there’s not a vaccine that will cure stupidness.
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Pardon my French but this party has lost its motherfucking mind.
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I’m so old, I can remember when General Jack D. Ripper was a fictional character.
Those were the days…
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Amen - my mom was so anxious to get me vaccinated we waited in a line that went out the door at a doctor’s office.
I wish anti-vaccination was just a Republican problem, but it ain’t.
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I have a small amount of sympathy for the truly ignorant and not the willfully ignorant, like the Russian immigrant community on the border of Oregon that was our first outbreak here in WA state. Misinformation was circulating in a fairly closed community.
The real scumbags are those who know how herd immunity works, and are still willing to weaponize anti-vax paranoia for political or financial gain. Scumbags, all of them.
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Reminds me of this classic.
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Darwinism moves too slowly.
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The Oregon GOP tweeted out a dangerous and stupid position. But sadly, anti-vaxxers come from both political parties.
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Yeah, I mean, it’s not like they’re blankets or anything.
What I mean is, the fear felt by a third-world population of powerful outside nations bringing mass injection regimes to them is understandable compared to the fear felt by first-world dickheads who fear it because they’re ridiculous tinfoil hatted morons.
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Very true, the AVs stereotypically come from upscale enclaves. But the Oregon GOP seems to be doing that thing where anything the “Dems” suggest is deemed obnoxious and opposed, up to and including the literal protection of children’s health.
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It ground to a halt in Louisiana.
What is odd is that anti-vaxxing has (until now) been more associated with overprivileged liberals than with conservatives. I guess they are just primed to protest against everything good??!!
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Which the GOP does way too often, making it even more ludicrous in this instance since one of the bill’s chief sponsors is a republican.
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If only they would deny women their essence as well.
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Yeah. Crazed CA soyheads mumbling to themselves about GMO conspiracies, chemtrails and how their herbal supplements make their sweat smell awesome during their hot yoga class lol
What gets me the most is the cynical way they recruit upset parents whose kids have been diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum…people who are deeply emotionally wounded and desperately, irrationally searching for an explanation and cause, so they offer them one in the form of contra-scientific conspiracy bullshit. It’s abusive.
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Vaccines are supported by scientists and intellectuals. Therefore…
Their “thinking” really is that stupid.
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Close. We all just have to get shot. Subtle but very different.
More on topic, since when the hell did the measles vaccination involve puncturing one’s tonsils? Down with shots in throats!
Oh noes, now we’re veering dangerously into porn. Honestly, who will think of the children?
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