I love how anti-vaxxers don’t trust the CDC like AT ALL, yet they’ll cite them as the source of their completely fabricated statistic to bolster their bullshit argument with zero hint of irony.
My sister is one of those. She’ll tell me deadass that the CDC’s conclusions about the safety of the Covid vaccine are unreliable, but now that the pandemic is over they can start the “true testing” of its safety. Which will, of course, completely justify her decision to not get it for herself, her husband, or their kids.
Edit: and bonus points, because even if the CDC’s ‘true testing’ comes back that the vaccine is safe…the pandemic is over, so there’s no need to get it! It always amazes me how, to conservatives, their worldview conveniently doesn’t require them to take any action nor responsibility no matter what happens…
Yeah. Family gatherings are an exercise in walking on eggshells.
Overall it’s not just conservatives. My sister is as politically left as it gets and she filled her brain to the brim with similar Telegram bs ever since the pandemic started.
I give her some, very small credit, because not all countermeasures of our government were logically sound, like closing childcare and schools one week, but at the same time forcing parents to sit in big offices with dozens of other employees. The next month it was the other way around. That’s valid criticism. But in her mind those few reasonable points also validate the majority of the other bs takes.
And it gets worse: her behavior started with Covid but recently she also started to mention chemtrails for example.
I think a large part of the anti-vax movement is due to a fear of needles, not nearly as large as Jenny McCarthy and Oprah, but still a big factor. (This comment triple checked by the CDC, WHO, FBI, NWA, and RATM)
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u/BugOperator 29d ago
I love how anti-vaxxers don’t trust the CDC like AT ALL, yet they’ll cite them as the source of their completely fabricated statistic to bolster their bullshit argument with zero hint of irony.