Activists who dispute safety of vaccines are pushing to limit immunization requirements in schools
As South Carolina grapples with a measles outbreak that has infected nearly 1,000 people, groups with ties to the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, are pushing to eliminate immunization requirements that protect children.
Activists are targeting vaccine mandates in states trying to tamp down measles as communities across the country struggle to stop the worst spread of the illness since the early 1990s. The Guardian found anti-vaccine groups are encouraging their followers to organize opposition to vaccine mandates in more than 20 states, including at least six with current measles outbreaks.
Leaders of this campaign include the anti-vaccine organization Kennedy led for years, a group run by his longtime book publisher, and Leslie Manookian, an Idaho film-maker, homeopath and activist whom Kennedy has called his friend.
Is this anti vaccine movement just based solely on stupidity? Or is there something else behind it like maybe it will disproportionately affect certain people?
See Project 2025. The old and vulnerable need to be culled. Nazis did the same thing, saving costs in care institutions. Viruses conveniently kill off old and health vulnerable, allowing the theft of social security.
Stupidity, anti-intellectualism, sticking it to the man, blend all of that in an echochamber and you get this mess
Better question is who has the most to gain from this? Insurance companies. More hospital stays, more free money.
Not really, they save money on old people, where most money is claimed eventually. A virus kills them off fast and cheap.
I’m inclined to think these people wouldn’t necessarily go to the hospital until it was absolutely too late. Or they’re too suspicious of the system to have insurance. Once you go anti-vaxx, the conspiracy ball is rolling.
People need to feel special. Scientists telling them that they need to get a vaccine makes them feel not-special, because these sorts of people chew on lead. Homeopath bloggers tells them that they are special, so they choose to believe the internet people. They now form groups, so that they can make each other feel special.
Now South Carolina is having the day they voted for—and children get to pay the price.
Stupidity and ignorant feelings
While there are many true believers, I’d guess the majority of the actual real political influence behind this movement is cynical, like most other wedge issues.
That is all speculative, and I could be wrong, but that is historically how these things operate.
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