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Rich Colbert's avatar

and these same anti-vaxxers fully support our country careening toward financial calamity - you know their mantra "freedom"....freedom to infect others, freedom to storm the Capitol and assault police officers, freedom to watch America devolve into a banana republic!

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I don't understand OR like them.

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Joan Sheehan's avatar

Frankly I have no patience for them anymore. They are taking not only other’s lives, but resources and time that vaccinated people need. Hearing that vaccinated people are not getting cancer treatments or surgeries because of shortened resources hurts my heart more than I can say.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

The idea that some surgeries are put on hold because people refuse to do the right thing absolutely slays me.

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Sharon Foster (CT)'s avatar

They're dying to prove their point. Literally. The current rate of death from Covid graph probably looks about the same. That'll own the libs! If Vladimir Putin himself isn't behind the disinformation campaign about the safety and efficacy of the vaccines versus the risks of contracting and spreading Covid, I'll bet he wishes he'd thought of it first. The pandemic has exposed and stressed the internal faultlines that have always been here.

Side note. This billboard briefly appeared in Georgia a few days ago. https://www.wjcl.com/article/georgia-billboard-trump-jesus/37704104#

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Oh, FFS. Baby Jesus is crying.

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Paul Ashton's avatar

I’ve said it before. It’s like a slow motion Jonestown.

Only difference is Trump will go golfing after everybody is dead.

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Sharon Foster (CT)'s avatar

Jonestown, exactly. Only now it's not just 900 people, it's 72 million. And I was baffled for years when it was just 900.

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

Yeah, I'm out of patience with the tender, tender pride about their "dogmatic position."

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Same here. Done talking to them. Done.

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

To the best of my knowledge there aren't any anti-vaxxers with whom I'm in the sort of relationship that would give me any leverage, anyway.

So far as I can tell, unless you do have that sort of relationship (and only possibly and with the greatest daintiness then), any conversation any whichaway just strengthens their stubbornness by platforming their performance art.

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