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Do you know anyone who is a Democrat who is also anti-vax?
I do not.
Response to DURHAM D (Original post)
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RockRaven
(14,985 posts)There's a big antivax contingent amongst self-identified liberals/progressives/democrats who arrive at their antivax position (or justify it thusly, anyway) via naturalistic fallacy.
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(52,288 posts)DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Are you actual friends with JFK Jr?
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(52,288 posts)But I do know a few democrats who are anti-vax. That said, I know more democrats who are merelyvaccine-hesitant from not knowing enough to ignore the nutjobs.
And the democratic anti-vaxxers I know are quiet about it. Only the Republican ones are militant and aggressive
róisín_dubh
(11,797 posts)I know a couple who were slow to GET the shots, but ultimately they did get them
2naSalit
(86,749 posts)All the antivaxers I know are people I avoid but have to deal with and they are either Rs or they don't participate. I have one relative, by marriage, who isn't even a US citizen but bitches about our politics through the lens of the Q crowd.
The people I call my friends are all vaxxed to the max and follow protocols.
rampartc
(5,433 posts)1. blacks who are reminded of the tuskegee experiments and
2. "mr natural"
i was a little suspicious of anything approved by the trump appointees at fda, but once the great exaggerator was defeated i became a little more confident.
Emile
(22,871 posts)eom