Public sentiment on the importance of safe, lifesaving childhood vaccines has significantly declined in the US since the pandemic—which appears to be solely due to a nosedive in support from people who are Republican or those who lean Republican, according to new polling data from Gallup.

In 2019, 52 percent of Republican-aligned Americans said it was “extremely important” for parents to get their children vaccinated. Now, that figure is 26 percent, falling by half in just five years. In comparison, 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners said it was “extremely important” this year, down slightly from 67 percent in 2019.

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    31% of Republicans also say, “Hunter Biden made the moon trans and now we should nuke the sun as a threat to the moon!”

    Fucking.weirdos.

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      It’s not always political, but it’s always stupidity, and stupidity is worse on one side than the other.
      You know, like facts having a liberal bias.

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      My theory is that it’s a combination of lead poisoning from going to NASCAR races (which still used leaded gas until 2007 or so) and right wing media indoctrination, mainly Fox News.

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        My theory is that it’s a combination of lead poisoning from going to NASCAR races (which still used leaded gas until 2007 or so) and right wing media indoctrination, mainly Fox News.

        FTFY

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        Nah, they might repeat that as a talking point but they’re down with fascism, just like they’ll bitch and moan about the pharmaceutical companies having a profit motive to lie without wanting to remove the profit motive from healthcare.

        They’re just liars and hypocrites who want their team, Team Racists and Bigots, to have total control and never forget it.

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      Total embrace of the paranoid style of politics.

      A couple decades ago, these people would be ranting about how the reds are adding fluoride to the water to make American patriots infertile.

      Previously, the paranoid style was less prominent. By acquiring control of large sectors of the media, a strategically important asset, they have widely propagated conspiratorial thinking at a scale that has never been seen before in the USA.

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        Better just list what isn’t wrong with them, because it’s a much shorter list.

        Here, I’ll show it to you:

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    I suppose it’s good news that this belief hurts them the most, but it’s also a public health problem.

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      Yeah, their children will be wracked with disease complications and the whole country will be on the hook to help care for them.

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        Even worse, it forms a reservoir of disease that the most vulnerable of the population, those who have not/cannot be vaccinated, will suffer tremendously from.

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    These idiots are not only harming themselves and their children, they’re harming and sometimes killing others who are medically prevented from receiving vaccinations. These scumbags are literally spreading disease.

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      Actually it’s worse than that, if you have enough unvaccinated people in an area you’ll increase the viral load received by the local population. Vaccines raise immunity significantly, but don’t make you fully immune. If you experience enough of a viral load despite being vaccinated you can still get sick. This is how outbreaks occur and why we’re seeing them in low vaccination communities. These viruses then spreads to others that shouldn’t normally get the virus. So in short it harms everyone including those vaccinated.

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    31 percent of republicans are a danger to themselves, their families, and others…

    scratch that.

    better make it ‘100 percent’.

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    This is gonna be the real maga legacy. A generation of kids that have to deal with the consequences of horrific, preventable, disease

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        I guess 20 years ago this was a scandal

        Another factor in Obama’s favor at the time that Rogers didn’t mention is that the original Republican candidate, Jack Ryan,[6] had been forced to suspend his candidacy after his divorce and custody records were released to the press, revealing that he had taken his former wife, actress Jeri Ryan,[7] to various sex clubs (including, in at least one case, a bondage club) and tried to have her perform sex acts on him out in the open.[8] Keyes was the GOP’s last-minute replacement on the ticket after the sordid details of Ryan’s divorce came out.

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    Everyone likes to wag the finger when we call these people morons. What else are we supposed to call them?

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    Recently at a doctors visit, this came up. We were discussing the use of AI to design vaccines. Doctor said that it didn’t make any difference because people like his staff nurses wouldn’t take a vaccine in any case. I was shocked. So, he opened the door and asked his nurses. Sure enough, not one nof them would take a new vaccine. I still can’t believe it.

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      Well, to be fair, recently released vaccines are fairly untested, but it’s mostly fine, so I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

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        I suppose this falsehood started with the Covid 19 Vaccine. In early January 2020, labs received the first comprised model of the Covid virus. Due to the current level of science, and smart people, the vaccine was finished in six days. The rest of the year was taken in testing for FDA approval until it was made publicly available in December of 2020. It was well tested.

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      My mother has worked in healthcare most of her life and it’s always blown my mind how many people she’s worked with are anti-vax.

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        It helps to think of healthcare as just another business in the US.

        It’s become such a huge industry. People aren’t necessarily there because they believe in the science, but because of all the typical mundane reasons to get any job - stability, income, prestige or appearance of status.

        But yes, it’s crazy.

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      Lockdown taught me that most nurses receive an inadequate education. There were big antivax nursing groups 3 years ago.

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        Eugenics is when one group of people dictates the reproduction of another group of people.

        Natural selection is when one group of people fails to survive due to inferior decision making, while better decision makers carry on their germlines.

        Refusing vaccinations based on conspiracy theories, and dying of disease because of it is 100% natural selection.

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          Except the comment I replied to says

          Their genes should be prevented from being passed down

          One group (the commenter I’m replying to) dictating the reproduction (‘should be prevented’) of another group (dumb republicans).

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            Yeah, no one said natural selection is kind and fair.

            If you want to talk forced vaccination I’m personally okay with it but that’s the reality of the situation, it won’t be solved otherwise.

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    Lets see here…

    Rabies => nearly 100% death rate, and it’s only pretty recently it’s not 100% with modern non vaccine treatments.

    Rabies Vaccine => 100% effective at preventing death.

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    I sincerely hope that 31% of Republicans contract Polio. Then maybe they’ll shut the fuck up

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      If we had a way to quarantine them all together so they can’t infect their unvaccinated kids, or anyone else who didn’t ask to participate in their bullshit, I’d be fully on board. Unfortunately, we saw what those dipshits did with COVID.

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    Every time I see some of my relatives, I make sure I bring up “oh, by the way shouldn’t I be dead now? You made a pretty big fuss about how everyone who was vaccinated wilouod be dead within a year”

    It’s always met with eye rolls and silence.