Will the Supreme Court take up the denial of religious exemptions for unvaccinated schoolchildren? #AntiVaxers #health #SupremeCourt #law #covid https://religionnews.com/2023/08/10/will-the-supreme-court-take-up-the-denial-of-religious-exemptions-for-unvaccinated-schoolchildren/ #mgshare

News from #Waikato of #antivaxers and #SovereignCitizens disrupting local ratepayers meeting in #Hamilton NZ on 8 June with councillors & Deputy Mayor. Usual suspects Counterspin Media and Kelvyn Alp there. National antivax candidate for Hamilton East, councillor Ryan Hamilton there too. #NZpol Warning for #Election2023
https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/a/nz-news/350019375/i-ve-never-seen-it-to-that-extent-city-leaders-flee-conspiracy-mob

@JuanWild
#DeSantis' wife's jacket: #Florida is "where woke goes to die."

#Woke
#Retirees
Young black men carrying Skittles & Iced Tea (#Travon).
#Antivaxers

Florida has become synonymous with "Death".

Stupid people give up on right to be heard

#AntiVaccine #AntiVax #AntiVaxers #news #RobertKennedy #RobertKennedyJnr #satire

A consortium of wingnuts led by Robert Kennedy Jnr were taking various news organisations to court because they are collaborating to boycott the disinformation and drivel that the wingnut consortium are promoting.

They have now dropped the case.

https://daily-twerk.com/general/stupid-people-give-up-on-right-to-be-heard/

Stupid people give up on right to be heard

#AntiVaccine #AntiVax #AntiVaxers #news #RobertKennedy #RobertKennedyJnr #satire

A consortium of wingnuts led by Robert Kennedy Jnr were taking various news organisations to court because they are collaborating to boycott the disinformation and drivel that the wingnut consortium are promoting. They have now dropped the case.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, one of the most

https://daily-twerk.com/general/stupid-people-give-up-on-right-to-be-heard/

The anti-vaxxers are at it again! The first 'Dr' mentioned is in Veterinary science at Guelph, opposing vaccine mandates before, trying to sue the University. The second is a medical dr but anti-vax, and the last 'Dr' is a dentist. Snake-oil grifters!
Sad to think of the gullible people sucked in. They can't even mention Covid. For sure they'll all be un-masked and a spreader event for people who are already sick. Very end-times vibe, indeed. #CovidIsNotOver #AntiVaxers

☑️

On March 23, 1885, #antivaxers descended on the English city of Leicester to rally against the Vaccination Acts. Since 1853 these laws had mandated that all infants be vaccinated against #smallpox.

https://laphamsquarterly.org/freedom/our-medical-liberties

#COVID19
#LongCovid

Oooof #antivaxers are the absolute worst.

@froukehe9. They are indeed. One day we will see a new adverse dx or fear like coulrophobia or agoraphobia...wait, there is one already...
masklophobia, more commonly seen in children, but what can I say?
#Antivaxers
#Healthcare

@amiserabilist Totally agree we are left but to speculate. However, those that deny #Science eshew medical advice and just plain do not like to be told what to do are at risk for multiple
health issues.
#Antivaxers
#science
#Healthcare #covid

Oh look! If you don't get a vaccine against a disease, you end up being vulnerable to get the disease! Huh! I wonder if that's significant in any way! I wonder if, for example, the same thing might be applied to a deadly pandemic?

#AntiVaxxerLogic #antivaxxers #antivaxers #CovidHasNotGone #CovidIsNotOver

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/health/measles-outbreak-ohio-over/index.html

@jasonjordan #antivaxers are a dying breed

Today is the third anniversary of the first confirmed #Covid-19 case in the US. As good a day as any to write a long and rambly essay about the current state of the nineteenth crow. I’m going to begin and end on a personal note, with some #science in the middle.

Almost my entire adult life has been dedicated to keeping people alive. I became a #medic for a number of reasons, but most directly because a friend was murdered: if there was any way I could keep another close circle of young, healthy people with a reasonable expectation of living for decades more from having to gather to mourn one of their own, I would.

So. First as a medic, then a #biotech #programmer, and now a #bioinformatics #researcher, my goal has been quite consistent. Everyone dies—but if we can claw back just a little more time, a few more years or days or hours, that is a victory in the war that never ends. As my fiancee says in another context, a slap in the face of a forgetful future. Only our deeds live after us. There is no greater deed than life itself.

For all that time, I’ve known there was another #plague coming. It was inevitable. One aspect of the medic’s war is the arms race, and pathogens have one hell of an R&D program. We can win skirmishes, and sometimes battles, and occasionally even a campaign. They’ll keep coming back, with mindless determination and terrifying numbers.

What I didn’t know, couldn’t even imagine, was what the primary obstacle to that particular phase of the war would be. I thought the challenges would be technical: spotting the #outbreak, identifying the #pathogen, learning its strengths and weaknesses, developing preventions and treatments, getting #medicine out to where it’s needed most. You know, science stuff.

Those are all challenges with covid, to be sure. But it turns the biggest problem is willful, deliberate, self-imposed, homicidal and suicidal stupidity.

I’ve written at length about my opinions of #antimaskers and #antivaxers, and no doubt I will again. The short version is, they’re traitors to humanity. I’ve given up trying to reason with them. Best to concentrate on what I can control: my own work, the knowledge I gain from others in the field, and the information I provide to people who are willing to listen. Eventually the traitors will benefit too, however little they deserve it.

Okay, on to the facts. The data I’ll be discussing are #US-centric. I live here, it’s my primary area of concern, and it’s what I know the most about. Readers in other countries, please feel free to comment on similarities and differences.

1. There were massive spikes in January 2021 and January 2022: here is a nice visualization. At the peaks, 2022’s spike was more than three times as bad as 2021’s. On the other hand, there were only (only!) about three-quarters as many deaths in 2022. I suspect there are a few things going on here:

   • New Year’s celebrations both years, but especially in 2022, packed a lot of people together in small spaces. This is of course a recipe for mass infection.

   • Prevalence of the omicron strain in 2022, which is generally more infectious but less lethal than other strains.

   • More masks in 2021, preventing infection but doing nothing to reduce severity, compared to much more #vaccination but fewer #masks in 2022.

2. As of September, Republicans were dying of covid almost twice as fast as Democrats, controlling for age. Of course it’s not being a Republican that kills you: it’s not being #vaccinated. Antivax has become an ideological purity test for a substantial portion of the Republican Party, and those who try to both-sides this issue have their heads buried so far in the sand they’re hitting bedrock.

3. New #variants haven’t been much in the news lately. That’s not because #SARS-CoV-2 has stopped mutating. It’s because what we call #omicron has now mutated so much that it now has more genetic diversity than all the others put together. Tracking variants by letter made sense in the early stages of the pandemic, but now we could go through the entire Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, and every other alphabet and still run out. As a practical matter, this means we’ll need at-least-annual #booster shots forever.

4. In June 2022, we passed a little-remarked milestone: total US covid deaths in people under 30 surpassed total US #military deaths in #Afghanistan and #Iraq, in a similar demographic over a much shorter time. Older people are more likely to die of covid, sure. Older people are more likely to die of everything. Youth will not save you.

There is some good news. The January spikes mentioned in item #1 seem so far not to be materializing this year, although we’ll have to wait until the data for the entire month have been sifted to be sure. I doubt people are getting any more careful, but 70-80% of the US population is vaccinated, depending on how you count: maybe that’s enough for a meaningful degree of herd #immunity.

Older #vaccines aren’t as effective against newer strains as newer vaccines tailored to those #strains, but they still help. With any vaccination on board, you’re less likely to get infected, and less likely to die if you do. Keep getting boosters, and your #immune system will build up a kind of library: “oh, this isn’t exactly like anything I’ve seen before, but it looks kind of like this thing I read about, so …”

We can’t make antivaxers go away. They’ll always be there, acting as a reservoir for infection and a breeding ground for new strains. Sure, they’ll die at a much higher rate, but more of them will live, largely thanks to the heroic efforts of the science they reject. What we can do, to a degree, is work around them.

Back to the personal.

I’ve lost a few friends, and I know many people who have lost family, to #antimask / #antivax lunacy. I understand the pain and anger and confusion. Stay strong. Maybe one day before we’re all dead, this will be over and reconciliation will be possible, if we choose to extend such grace. Not today, and not for a long time to come.

Any person, any family, any circle of friends, any gathering, any business, any government … all are more than justified in exiling these traitors forever. When they are those we love, grief is inevitable. But the people we loved are already dead. Our job is to avoid joining them.

Let’s be careful out there.

«Died suddenly»: sur les réseaux sociaux, la mort récupérée par les antivaccins.

Sur les réseaux sociaux, le mot-clé «died suddenly» (mort subitement) apparaît dès qu'une célébrité meurt, attribuant son décès au vaccin. Malgré l'absence totale de fondement scientifique, la rumeur connaît un franc succès.

#antivax #désinformation #infox #fakenews #antivaxers

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2023/01/19/died-suddenly-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-la-mort-recuperee-par-les-antivaccins

@jordinn @shrinkthinks I wonder what percentage of those workers who died of #COVID19 were Republican #antivaxers.

The Demar Hamlin incident is a devastating thing, and the insidious attempt by the 'died suddenly' conspiracy crowd to exploit it is on brand for this right wing, snake oil selling human trash. Force trauma to the chest is a common cause of cardiac arrest. I know someone who died from a punch to the chest in a schoolyard fight.
Let's hope Hamlin battles his way out of it and these vax conspiracy ghouls will be shut down at any opportunity.
#DemarHamlin #NFL #antivaxers

This turned up on my Facebook feed. My response: "Here's to all the #antivaxers who didn't make it to 2023, and best wishes to the others for 2024."

@ChrisMayLA6

👆 That's ok - #Covid disproportionately kills stupid people (#AntiVaxers, #Libertarian #Right_Wing #Tories, #Mask_Deniers et al...) and, overall, reducing the number of stupid people has to be a good thing, right? 😂

I am trying to find something to explain to anti-vaxers why SARS-CoV2 produces more spike proteins than the vaccine does and how the virus itself causes more damage than the one piece of it. I am tired of explaining it over and over, and forgot to bookmark the one link I really liked when I saw it.

Any help would be appreciated!
#COVID19 #AntiVaxers #SARSCoV2

@Cheesebiscuits

This will do exactly what Ronnie wants:

Appease the Florida #MAGA & #AntiVaxers with sham investigation - you can expect venomous attacks on #Fauci

Deflect from his hypocrisy. That is the only point and waste of taxpayers money.