No, the news conglomerates won't stop.

No one I know actually thinks like this, but it's easy to run made up problems 24 hrs a day, than point out actual corruption like every career politician insider trading.

Great, now you just made having partisan issues a partisan issue.

Which part of America.

The fact that you changed “spit on” to “spit up on” was perfect. These are emotional toddlers flailing their arms and kicking their feet and accidentally spitting up on all of us and everything sane. Kudos

I used to agree with that. But then Covid happened and I listened to people on the radio call in saying “we gotta let a few old people go to save the exonomy.” As though human life was an acceptable cost.

I genuinely thought people at least were ignorant to the death tole to then but I was mistaken. It got so bad the host cut off calls.

The vaccine then came out and I watched millions shun it, despite being shown to be safe and effective. Sure, some folks thought they were dangerous (disinformation and all) but that radio show told me, some people want the world to burn.

There are people who saw devastation and don’t get vaccinated because it’s an acceptable loss.

that's one of the side effects of the poor education in the USA... test oriented education focuses on scoring high on tests and general knowledge items such as the history of public health and vaccines are neglected, or if they are discussed, they are discussed in kindergarten terms

Andrew Wakefield was a porn star and started vaccine denial?

But if all science is bad... I'm bringing back the evolution debate!

Oh please don’t. We still have stickers on our textbooks.

It's sadly funny in a way....

Historic documents, photos, studies, documentaires telling about real diseases and how we beat them not that long ago. Fake news I sleep.

Some book tells about some bullshit magic 2000 years ago written by idiots that didn't know germs existed. Real shit!

Sadly, we'll be learning it right alongside them.

It's not "with technology", it's despite technology.

It's a decades long attack on education, public acceptance of low skill low wage unqualified teachers, and a complete lack of critical thinking in most of the population.

They don't understand how vaccines work, they don't understand statistics, they don't understand chemistry, they don't know how to research despite having the total sum of human knowledge at their fingertips. You tell them vaccines are made from fetuses and harms your children and they stop processing beyond that.

Smallpox is probably why we have contemporary anti-vaxxers. Without a lethal, Flood-like disease, people quickly think that it's okay to just be fucking disgusting and let themselves and their kids get everyone sick.

People will learn why we vaccinate against the fucked up, biblical diseases of yestercentury.

I have a coworker who wears a mask almost every day. (We work with small children, AKA sentient petri dishes. Wearing a mask by default isn't a bad idea.)

I'm not that hardcore, but I've found that they help even in non-illness situations. Like when the air is cold and dry, wearing a mask means the air I breathe is warmer. Not only is it more comfortable, but it prevents the post-nasal drip that such conditions usually trigger. Without post-nasal drip, my throat is less likely to become irritated. An irritated throat can lead to laryngitis.

Ergo, wearing a mask on cold, dry days prevents an entire chain of shitty events from taking place. The people stubbornly digging their heels in against masks have no idea what incidental benefits they're missing.

Ummmm, the "education" vaccine is pretty effective with the right ingredients.

Seems like the vaccine for anti-vaxxers is anti-vaxxers.

The vaccine for stupidity is dying of polio and it's about to make an appearance.

Wouldn't THAT vaccine be a paradox though? The half that would take it don't need it, and the half that need it are.....ya know.....listening to Alex Jones conspiracy theories.

We already forgot how Dutch sports fans basically infected all of Europe with omicron variant.

49%. 51% is in favor of vaccinating, at least according to the title.

It's just history man. Most of us in the first world are, for the first time, on the wrong end of it. The Expanse called it the churn.

Some part of me is laughing, "Have y'all not studied history?!" It's our time to witness the fall of the empire. But hey! The 80s and 90s were fucking sweet in America!

Although if we want a more pessimistic view

If we assume that "eligible voters" is a roughly representative sample of the country in general, well over 51 percent of the country either voted for this (directly by voting for trump, or indirectly by voting 3rd party) or didn't care enough to even show up and vote.

Because that's what happened. Something like 3/4 of eligible voters decided that this was an acceptable outcome.

Pretty sure this would violate the constitution which guarantees our rights to travel freely between states unimpeded. I'm sure there's ways to make it where people who decide to stay have to prove they're safe to work with, but that's just by increasing standards across the state rather than profiling outsiders.

Capitalism is the disease. Socialism is the cure.

S-soon??

Do you want people who think they are their god's chosen? Because this is how you get people who think they are their god's chosen...

There are the masses who are truly dumb enough to believe the rhetoric no matter how exhaustively disproven it may be. You can take them at face value for the most part.

Then there are the people manipulating those masses. The politicians, pundits, and puppeteers who convince people to vote against their interests time and time again. They don't generally believe anything they say. They'll say anything it takes to gain more power.

Many of the second group are eugenicists. Some openly admit it, but most aren't quite to the point of saying the quiet part out loud.

None of the right-wing people in power give half a shit if poor people die. Somehow they've convinced a lot of poor people that they only hate poor minorities, and not all poor people. They've even convinced some poor minorities that they only hate poor immigrant minorities.

The reality is that they hate you, they hate me, they hate our neighbors, they hate our families, they hate our friends. They'd sell your soul for a nickel if they could. If you're not a millionaire, you're just cattle to the far right politicians and billionaires who have them in their pockets.

But you can watch it kill itself.

Where do you think vaccines come from?

Horse paste is not made by big pharma.