Reading Time: 4 minutes Anti-vax ideology isn’t a harmless quirk or a side issue. It reflects a worldview unmoored from empirical reality, and that’s an extremely bad sign for a candidate’s ability to make the right choices in a crisis.
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Why anti-vaxxers get in more car crashes
Reading Time: 4 minutes People who reject the COVID vaccine also get in more traffic accidents than vaccinated people. What explains the link between these seemingly unrelated events?
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Did anti-vaxxer deaths from COVID swing elections?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Anti-vaccine conservatives suffered a disproportionate death toll during the COVID pandemic, compared to liberals who got vaccinated in huge numbers. Could this dynamic have affected the outcome of any elections in 2022, and if so, which ones?
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Why didn’t you come to my son’s polio immunity party?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dear Moms Of The Pacific Palisades Group, I am writing this letter because you all have hurt me today. For the past five years, this mommy group has been a haven for me. We’ve all made soap together. We’ve meditated in front of the same positive wave-generating machines together. And we had our immunity parties […]
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An old darkness stirs
Reading Time: 4 minutes Thanks to anti-vaccine ideology, diseases long ago vanquished are creeping back—even polio.
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COVID-19 is Boston’s 1721 smallpox epidemic redux
Reading Time: 5 minutes Although the coronavirus pandemic is clearly starting to ebb, as of March 9, 2022 an average of 35,496 Americans were still be being hospitalized daily with the disease, and it’s still killing 1,451 citizens each day on average, the New York Times reported. So, the current pandemic is far from over in the U.S., which […]
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Anti-vaxxers and ableism: 3 ways we must advocate for people with disabilities
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I saw that the CDC director stated that it’s “encouraging” mostly already-ill people will die from COVID, my ableist spidey senses went up. And, judging by the ensuing outrage on Twitter, I wasn’t the only one mentally going, “What the hell?!” We know that anti-vaxxers do not care about the needs or lives of […]
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Anti-vaxxers are ableist. Full stop.
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you haven’t learned to identify ableism when you see it, looking at the behaviors and beliefs of anti-vaxxers and how those behaviors impact disabled people is a master class. First, let me be clear: I’m not talking about people who have valid reasons to hesitate before getting the COVID vaccine, or those who are […]
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Dennis Prager Gets Covid, and Uses Insane Reasoning
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dennis Prager, also known as a bad human being, has contracted Covid. The potential schadenfreude is compounded by the reasoning he gives. He wanted the disease so he could build up a natural immunity rather than getting artificial immunity from a vaccine. WHAT? He wanted to get the disease so he could get immune…to the […]
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John King’s Admission on CNN
Reading Time: < 1 minute This meant a lot to me, not just because I really like and respect John King but because I have MS as well. This was fascinating as he is evidently very high functioning in his ability to cover it so well. And he’s bang on what he says about vaccination. So many anti-vaxxers don’t recognise […]