Fogdog
Well-Known Member
It's a completely predictable cycle. Ignorant people gather and become a large breeding ground for the virus. The virus adapts and variants emerge that are more efficient at reproducing in people. More infected people spread the disease and the virus gets better at infecting people. As infection rates go up with new variants, areas with low vaccination rates will be hit the hardest.Large numbers of people believing bullshit will have many costs, economic, as well as lives lost and ruined by maiming. Many of these people are in denial and spouting the bullshit that fills their brains until they are intubated. I imagine some will continue to deny covid exists even after they recover or are maimed by it. The courts better make sure the first amendment doesn't become a suicide pact, because right now it's being wielded as a weapon against the stupid and will be killing them in large numbers. Perhaps spreading lethal public health disinformation should be a crime for individuals and especially for media companies. Lies kill and this has been repeatedly demonstrated with this pandemic, from the fact that there is one, to masks, to public health measures and now with vaccines.
I wonder what threshold of pain in a community of antivaxxers is needed to change enough minds?