It doesn’t work if doctors, nurses, and the rest of healthcare get sick too. If their kids are sick, they’re typically home with them. Hospitals don’t make money without staff.

These guys don’t appear to be thinking even one step away from the immediate impact.

Vaccines are good as long as they are proven to work, and as long as they are effective enough to be worth the side effects and risks. Big pharma needs to be held accountable and kept honest, because they would definitely try to sell you vaccines that are not necessary or not effective if they could get away with it. It shouldn't be an all or nothing question.

Yup.

The Republican party are enemies of the people of the United States of America.

that's the point.

More sabotage.

The way you think of the US, the US thinks of Florida.

It's okay. A surge of viral and bacterial diseases will turn FL into toxic soup.

Honestly states should halt flights from Florida

They're not even smart fascists they're like crazy, ignorant, stupid fascists

There is a ton of fear about vaccines in some areas. I have a feeling some parents are about to learn some lessons in a really terrible way.

It started out as mostly pandering to their uneducated anti-vax base, but with fascists being in all levels of government now there are more conspiracy theorist true believers in office. So the dumber ones actually believe it, while the less dumb ones use it as a wedge issue to keep support (while being vaccinated themselves).

Even the fucking Nazis and Imperial Japanese understood that vaccines worked.

The Japanese in particular with Unite 731 even developed vaccines for the plague, then tested it by deliberating getting one unvaccinated group infected and another vaccinated group infected. The vaccinated group fared far better than the vaccinated group and had a much higher survivability rating.

The ideal model of the Fascist economy is get poors to pay taxes and then die when they can't work any more.

I seriously think they want to reduce the population. And if you use disease and only allow the richest people to have access to vaccines, the poors and "undesirables" go first.

I truly think that it's that sinister.

Trump and his friends have hidden agenda.

Donald Trump isn't a smart man and he has some very concerning beliefs. I mean we know for a fact that Trump slept/sleeps with a copy of Hitler's Speeches in his bedside drawer. He admitted that himself. He also has some very strange views on exercise, claiming the human body is like a battery and too much exercise can kill you. He tweeted that he believes vaccines cause Autism.

A lot of political positions have some weird fucking ideas on health and science, even the "normal" ones (Look up Posadism, right now, drop whatever you are doing and look it up right now, it's ducktits bonkers), but the Right are the ones who are most infamous for them. I mean the basis for OG Nazism involved Supermen with high technology coming to Earth on an Ice Ball (no seriously), but you also have ideas popular on the right like:

• Socioeconomic factors for health are overblown or non existent (popular with conservatives and libertarians).
• HIV doesn't cause AIDS/HIV-AIDS doesn't exist/Was made in a lab (Founder of GB news and Epistein book alum Andrew Neil believes this).
• Immuno-comprimised people deserve to die as to not inconvenience them, personally (popular during Covid).
• Vaccines cause Autism.
• Gender identity doesn't exist and trans and nonbinary people are sexual perverts who should be killed (if AMAB or Intersex) or "Brought back to woman hood to save their wombs" (if AFAB, yes, sounds like a handmaid's tale).
• Intersex people don't exist/don't deserve to live.
• Contraception is wrong/doesn't work and should be banned.
• Fertilised Human Eggs are instantly Sentient and Sapient.
• Menstruation is a disorder (yes, you heard that) caused by toxins.
• Faith Healing.
• That certain races have superpowers.
• That the world is ~6000 years old and the bible is right.
• That Mobile Phones or phone masts cause Cancer/Autism/Covid.
• That chemical reactions in people's guts cause Autism.
• That Autism can be cured.
• That Queerness can be cured.
• That eating raw meat or dairy products is good for you.

And many more.

Now I am going to also say that alongside insanity, there's a more "rational"/Machiavellian reason for them doing things like getting rid of vaccines and that is the following:

1. They don't pay anything to help anyone. Generally they believe the state is there to keep the underlings in line, not help them.
2. They think that actual healthcare should only be accessible to those who can pay for it, especially if it's out of reach for the average person and thus is for the "elite".
3. If people are sick, they will have to spend large amounts of money, meaning they can extract even more labour from them to enrich themselves. If they can't, well, they die and aren't a "problem" for them.

The reason why Trump and his ilk having these beliefs are the following:

1. They're sociopaths who love the idea of NeoFeudalism more than a British MP enjoys Cocaine.
2. They're not very bright.

It's part of Project 2025. They need to cull social security recipients. Half of people in Florida are over 42, oldest state in the US. Kids are great at spreading viruses. It's just a version of smallpox blankets used to kill off natives.

People are dumb in groups

Group membership and beliefs carry way more weigh than anything else.

It's just a shame that leopards don't respect borders.

What do you expect? The media bowed down to Trump. I didn't think fear of lawsuit would lead to this but here we are.

Well on the plus side it's not like they'll ever be able to afford to travel internationally.

MILGA? it doesn't have the same ring to it, but with some work ...

He and Kanye probably have a lot in common

The last time I was visiting my parents in South Carolina we went to a local art faire thing, and one of the stands was a dude selling art of Confederates. Not just any Confederates, Black Confederates. And the dude selling this art, was a older black man in full fucking Confederate uniform. The best part was the massive bread boards he had full of tiny font Confederate apologia that read like a SovCit manifesto.

Don't think the color of a person's skin naturally dictates their opinions on matters that you think it should, people will surprise you every time.

That is genuinely a terrible thing to do as a person of color. Seriously though, people suffered extreme abuse and he is out here saying that getting vaccinated is basically the same.

My take is upvote for visibility.

Well yeah, he's next to a person of color. Any racist would be livid if they had to share the same air with someone that is isn't white.

Certainly sounds like it

Encourage, no. Just preparing for the inevitable.