The stupidity of the anti-vaxx nutcases

[rekil]

Czech folk singer dies after deliberately contracting Covid

Hana Horka wanted to prove recovery from Covid so she could obtain a health pass

www.theguardian.com

Rek blamed the death on a local anti-vax movement, saying its leaders had convinced his mother against vaccination and thus had “blood on their hands”.

“I know exactly who influenced her … It makes me sad that she believed strangers more than her proper family,” Rek said.

“It wasn’t just total disinformation but also views on natural immunity and antibodies acquired through infection,” he added.

The net result of quackery.

 

[existentialist]

Czech folk singer dies after deliberately contracting Covid

Hana Horka wanted to prove recovery from Covid so she could obtain a health pass

www.theguardian.com

The net result of quackery.

'twas ever thus

 

[gentlegreen]

Scumbags have descended on her Facebook page.
She never published any conspiracies that I can see - just some rather naively optimistic writings suggesting she thought she was in recovery

 

[LDC]

Oh what a surprise... Djokovic-backed ‘biotech’ firm’s approach likened to homeopathy

 

[gentlegreen]

That makes Theranos seem almost sensible ...

 

[Maggot]

 

[NoXion]

Because of course the virus is going to oblige by taking a holiday just when the PM needs to throw a bone to the more swivel-eyed of his disgruntled MPs.

 

[existentialist]

Because of course the virus is going to oblige by taking a holiday just when the PM needs to throw a bone to the more swivel-eyed of his disgruntled MPs.

Part of me hopes that there is a vicious uptick, soon after the requirements are lifted. The other part of me feels depressed at how transparently politically this whole thing has been handled.

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Czech folk singer dies after deliberately contracting Covid

Hana Horka wanted to prove recovery from Covid so she could obtain a health pass

www.theguardian.com

The net result of quackery.

Poor woman and her family. Rabid antivaxxers are preying on the fear of people like her, and it's evil.

 

[Dystopiary]

I wonder how many people will actually attend this. It's pretty scary imho. Grifters is the word.



"NEW from me: Big Ivermectin is headed to DC to march on Sunday. They've sold out hotels, shared directions on forging vaxx cards, and they're expecting 10,000+. It's an antivaxx Super Bowl, a "who’s who of grifters," and it was organized on... Facebook."

Organized on Facebook, a ‘who’s who’ of anti-vaccine activists head to D.C.

"Among the scheduled speakers is Dr. Robert Malone, a virologist who has recently emerged as a new leader of the anti-vaccination movement after appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast in December. Malone, who is president of the Pandemic Health Alliance, the organization soliciting donations for the rally, has pushed anti-Covid vaccine talking points, including tweeting a retracted study falsely claiming Covid vaccines caused a substantial number of deaths."

 

[ddraig]

Great reply to that tweet

 

[Dystopiary]

Great reply to that tweet
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also....

 

[petee]

this isn't right. before he became an antivaxxer he was the single person most responsible for cleaning up the Hudson and the waterways around NYC in general. he established a program at a local law school which has produced a cadre of environmental litigators. he's dangerous not because he's a Kennedy but because he had done enough good to finish as a legend and has squandered his name on antivaxxism. it's a fucking tragedy.

welp, he's lost his brain completely.

 

[gentlegreen]

Damn I'm slow ...
I've only just realised where the "vaccinated will drop dead in two years" crap comes from ...
It's the two years the FDA would normally take to approve a vaccine - not because of possible harm, but in order to ensure the immunity lasts long enough to call the vaccine effective ...

 

[elbows]

Damn I'm slow ...
I've only just realised where the "vaccinated will drop dead in two years" crap comes from ...
It's the two years the FDA would normally take to approve a vaccine - not because of possible harm, but in order to ensure the immunity lasts long enough to call the vaccine effective ...

That sounds like a massive oversimplification to me.

 

[elbows]

The whole film is on youtube but I'm guessing nobody could bare to sit through a hour and a half of this crap so here's the trailer

I only just watched the trailer but I was please that the 'communism is all over the place' line made it into the voiceover.

 

[gentlegreen]

That sounds like a massive oversimplification to me.

I had pretty well figured out that the two year approval time was more to do with trades descriptions than safety ...
I don't usually watch the likes of Jillian Michaels but she had Victor Racaniello on and he happened to expressly suggest that ...I'm forever asking antivaxxers to explain what possible mechanism they have in mind for longish-term issues (yes I've heard about the narcolepsy issues in Pandemrix - my minimal reading suggests the same people might well have got that from actual infection)

 

[elbows]

The normal timescales are down to a combination of factors, I dont know why you want to whittle it down to one. Safety and how well it works are two of the biggest, along with a bunch of procedural stuff, panels meeting to weigh up the different factors, data continuing to accrue etc. Plus manufacturing facilities getting the right certification and so on.

 

[RainbowTown]

welp, he's lost his brain completely.

Yep, he's totally lost the plot alright. Disappeared right down into that rabbit hole, never to return. What an odious and deplorable thing to say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invokes Nazi Germany in offensive anti-vaccine speech

At a rally against vaccine mandates in Washington, DC, on Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likened vaccine policies in the US to the actions of a totalitarian state, even suggesting Anne Frank was in a better situation when she was hiding from the Nazis.

edition.cnn.com

 

[LeytonCatLady]

The minute someone invokes Anne Frank, Sophie Scholl or another victim of the Nazis, you know they're an idiot whom you shouldn't bother arguing with, because they'll drag you down to their moronic level and beat you with experience.

 

[krtek a houby]

The minute someone invokes Anne Frank, Sophie Scholl or another victim of the Nazis, you know they're an idiot whom you shouldn't bother arguing with, because they'll drag you down to their moronic level and beat you with experience.

He's lost his brain, not unlike his uncle

 

[Dogsauce]

Impressive amount of loonery in one person here:

Christopher Key, Anti-Vax Leader Driving to Arrest Dem Governors, Says He Doesn’t Need a Driver’s License

The anti-COVID-19 vaccine leader, who drinks his own urine, says he can drive without a license because of his “constitutional rights.”

www.thedailybeast.com

piss-drinking, freeman, vaccine bioweapon. Need a bingo card for this shit.

 

[Dogsauce]

I also can’t not add the picture of the loon with their car because it’s a bit special.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I also can’t not add the picture of the loon with their car because it’s a bit special.

But, it's not a car, it's a wagon, with chocolate biscuit wheels.

“My car is not a car. My car is my wagon, with wagon wheels,” he continued, insisting he doesn’t need a driver’s license to operate his car, which is currently wrapped with graphics claiming the COVID-19 vaccine a “bio-weapon.”

 

[LeytonCatLady]

But, it's not a car, it's a wagon, with chocolate biscuit wheels.

Cheers, that's my bedtime snack sorted. Think my corner shop sells the ones with jam in them.

 

[two sheds]

Looks like Reddit mods are pissed off with antivaxxers, too. The response from a mod:

We ban anti-vaxxers and reality deniers.
You'll have some time to delete that comment about your Nobel prize winning horse paste and your DNA altering experimental vaccine before I get to it.
If I have to see it and remove it however, then you may not appeal your ban.
Delete Facebook, turn off Fox News, yadda yadda. After two years we've all had enough of your nonsense, you disease spreading ignoramus.
You may now scream and tantrum about your holy Free Speechtm that you don't know the meaning of either.

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Oh and if you reply to this comment with "It's not horse paste/ my free speech/ nao it's CNN that's bad reeee!" then congratulations, you took the bait and you're too dumb not to get banned.

It's a search term count

 

[gentlegreen]

I may have to persevere and give Reddit a serious go ....

 

[Casaubon]

Faultless logic.

 

[two sheds]

I may have to persevere and give Reddit a serious go ....

It's quite entertaining. I avoid any of the subreddits (well I don't actually know how to join any) - I just look at the highlights they provide. I'd like to turn off things like the celebs and stock market posts

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Faultless logic.

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Surely satire?