RFK Jr. calls Covid safety protocols “turnkey totalitarianism”

  • pumpchilienthusiast [comrade/them, any]
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    3 years ago

    anyone else have a morbid curiosity about how bad a virus would have to be to get antivaxxers to renounce their views?

    "hey man, there's a highly transmissible virus out is guaranteed to make your genitals literally explode but we have this vaccine that is 99.98% effective with no side effects, you in?"

    "nah, im pureblood"

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I've asked some of my anti-vax Qanon demented family directly this very question. I'll summarize.

      The virus would need something like a 90% fatality rate, would need to spread from person to person instantaneously, and you'd need higher than a 50% chance of getting it. They would also want other forms of mitigation to be ineffective. Masks would have to not work. Then they say they'd get the vaccine. As it currently is, they say the virus either doesn't exist or is exaggerated to make Trump look bad.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          A lot of them already have. I've lost nearly two dozen family members to covid between 2019 and now. The survivors except a rare few are still adamantly anti-vax and only getting more insane by the day. It's like a cold stillness is overcoming my family and I'm still waiting to get a call that my parents are going to die, even though they're vaccinated.

          I don't expect to have any relatives over the age of 60 this time next year.

          • SaniFlush [any, any]
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            3 years ago

            There's a hole in the center of everything. Shit's fucked. All we can do is survive long enough to see the end.

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      3 years ago

      Covid literally destroys your sperm and makes your dick shrink because of vascular damage. I doubt anything would get them to change their mind unless it made them black.