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(6,435 posts)seen 'em a couple a times. Here's a good track by them...
K&R
Sentath
(2,243 posts).. good gosh that is a lot of notes
IronLionZion
(45,262 posts)the fewer anti-vaxxers we will have soon enough. Why argue with these idiots when we can just wait?
malaise
(267,837 posts)If they choose to cull their herd, who the fuck am I to stop them. If people are so fucking ignorant that they choose to reject knowledge, let then "Cain" themselves.
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onenote
(42,383 posts)It's not just anti-vaxxers that are getting sick and dying.
Does that not bother you?
IronLionZion
(45,262 posts)onenote
(42,383 posts)What am I not doing? Shrugging my shoulders and saying let the anti-vaxxers do whatever they want, no matter what the cost tot he rest of us.
IronLionZion
(45,262 posts)I'll support good candidates but I am done arguing with conservatives on social media.
Dorian Gray
(13,469 posts)on average, the risk to children is less than many other risks that we live through and don't think about much. As parents we can mitigate that risk by reducing their exposure to the anti-vaxxers. I know in some states that is A LOT harder and difficult for the parents, and even in this state, I'm counting down the days until we can get my ten year old vaccinated.
Wear masks, be safe, and try to do activities where vaccines are mandated if possible.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)The death rate from Covid simply isn't very high. Not at all enough to cull the herd.
Plus, apparently an awful lot of them totally deny they have Covid even when in the hospital and getting ready to be put on a ventilator. Some of them see the light shortly before they day and admit they were wrong. Others, those who recover, simply dismiss the seriousness of it.
So no, thinking that any significant percentage of them will soon be gone is not going to happen.
IronLionZion
(45,262 posts)disproportionately in some big swing states like Florida, Texas, Georgia, Michigan, etc.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)So, depending on exactly where we start with those deaths, and I'll go with January, 2020, more than 6.3 million babies were born in the same time. As bad as Covid is, it's just not killing a population impacting number. So please stop hoping that the anti-vaxxers will eliminate themselves. They won't. All they'll succeed in doing is getting a lot of others sick, and killing some of them.
To keep the numbers in perspective, the Black Death in the 14th Century did briefly kill more people than were being born. But the 1918 flu pandemic barely killed as many people as were otherwise being born.
IronLionZion
(45,262 posts)and young people are more liberal, then we might see some electoral implications and policy changes from a generation who grew up with this pandemic and doesn't want to repeat it.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)Yeah, the babies being born are just babies, but meanwhile how many millions and millions of people are Trumpers, or anti-vaxxers, or just in any other way have gone to the dark side?
Vastly more than are dying from Covid.
Now, if a new variant appeared that was even more infectious than Delta and killed at least half of those who got it, then you could hope the conservatives would lose significant numbers.
Karma13612
(4,527 posts)More deaths than births
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[link:https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-pandemic-caused-deaths-to-outpace-births-in-alabama-2021-9|]
Just sayin
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)halfulglas
(1,654 posts)I also laughed at the "I cant wait to not give a shit" line
robbob
(3,514 posts)I like the one that said dont know when common sense became political.
Initech
(99,915 posts)And if you want society to function again? There's only one thing you need to do - get the damn vaccine! Otherwise, stay home and shut up.
pandr32
(11,447 posts)mjvpi
(1,384 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,571 posts)(Minnesota Public Radio station that plays awesome music.)
Always loved Trampled By Turtles.
dalton99a
(81,077 posts)Karma13612
(4,527 posts)People straight out what the story is.
Well done! Not sure who the band is, but glad to hear they are practical, and support the vaccine and masks, etc. Tell people how it is.
And I am still pissed at my Guitar hero Eric Clapton for being such an idiot with his anti-vax stance a couple months ago. Does he not realize he can be an influencer? OK, so not anymore. But at one time he was a household name.