Some evangelicals fear the 'mark of the beast' from a coronavirus vaccine

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Peggy Popham gets her flu shot every year, despite her daughter Laura’s opposition to vaccines.

“I’m 70 and I’ve gotten sick before,” said Popham. “I don’t have a great immune system.”

Popham, who spoke to Yahoo News by phone while quarantining at home in Asheville, N.C., acknowledges that the same factors put her at risk for the coronavirus. “Of course,” she said, she’s worried about contracting COVID-19.

But she’s more worried about a possible vaccine for it.

“Absolutely not,” she said. “I would not take the vaccine.”

That’s a view shared by nearly one in five Americans, according to a recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll, which found that an additional 26 percent weren’t sure if they’d take it. Some of them no doubt have been influenced by the anti-vaccine disinformation that has been spreading for more than a decade on social media — although that has been directed primarily at routine childhood immunizations and their hypothesized link to autism. Popham’s reasons aren’t medical: They are religious and political.

Popham believes that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert on the administration’s coronavirus task force, is part of the “deep state” along with Bill Gates, another prominent villain of coronavirus conspiracy theorists. She believes their interest in developing a coronavirus vaccine is “driven by money” as well as “a socialist agenda” designed to “get control of us.” Based on research she’s done online, Popham thinks it’s likely that the vaccine will include some sort of human tracking device.

https://news.yahoo.com/evangelicals-fear-the-mark-of-the-beast-from-a-coronavirus-vaccine-183249943.html

[cos dem]

1. Okey-dokey, suit yourself

They'll be in limited supply anyway when they come out. More for the rest of us.

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. If mother nature sends us a pandemic once in a century or so as a reaction to overpopulation

Or man's treatment of the planet. As some may theorize,

This could be a sub category of that cleanse. The gun humpers, religion cultists, RW conspiracy theorists, and the rest of the idiocracy.

[COLGATE4]

2. Proven beyond all shadow of a doubt - you can't fix stupid. nt

[eShirl]

3. They're all cuckoo.

[Clash City Rocker]

4. The mark of the beast is that red hat on her head

[SWBTATTReg]

5. They fear that everything is the sign of the beast, etc. It is getting a little ridiculous that

everything seems to tick these people off, no matter what. That's fine. They'll die just like they did during the dark ages, w/ the black plague, small pox and other epidemics. Only problem is that they'll bring down everyone else that doesn't believe as they do, by continuing to go out shopping, attending services by the hundreds still (not online), funerals, birthday parties, etc.

These idiots need to have the oxygen taken out of the room/out of their sails, and I suspect that the CV is doing this already, slowly but surely. All it takes is one point of contact, and BOOM, another CV infection starts ramping up in that community. How long will it take before authorities are brave enough to ignore emotional outbursts and instead, listen to science and reason, based upon real data?

[zak247]

6. Trump is the beast

These religious ignoramuses don't see the fact that there is no beast but Trump and they, the supposed religious give power to the beast when they support Trump, the true beast of the apocalypse.

[jayfish]

7. Not Having The "Mark" Is Its Own Mark.

[Midnight Writer]

8. This is not "a religious belief". This is nonsense propagated by Right Wing lunatics.

Not every crackpot theory gets the protections of religious faith.

[lunasun]

9. " a socialist agenda" designed to "get control of us"

Yes !

[yortsed snacilbuper]

16. A Will Rogers quote,

"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."

[lunasun]

23. I dunno for some reason I don't think Popham is a Democrat but she is doing "vaccine research"!!

[Solly Mack]

10. She can check off stupid on her bucket list

[Downtown Hound]

11. Do you thing Darwin...

[woodsprite]

13. I'd be more concerned about that MAGA hat on their foreheads. nt

[stopbush]

14. Childish fantasies.

[onecaliberal]

15. Words fail.

[Jirel]

17. Cool. Die, then.

We won’t miss the crackpots.

Lost is the irony that they’re worrying about secret tracking devices in the vaccine while tweeting about it on the tracking device in their pocket.

[Brainfodder]

18. I will admit once I hear of a vaccine readily a/v, still waiting a month for it to be "tested" more?

Severe trust issues with anything related to these super crooks.

[lark]

19. If drumpf is involved, and he will try to be, I will wait at least 3-6 months.

I don't trust HIM. He'd kill tens of thousands of us if it profited him even $1, he's so full of hate and greed.

If the vaccine originates in Oxford or some other place that cares about science and people and has ZERO affiliation with any drumpfs' or kushners', & it's covered by Medicare (one huge potential problem) I will sign up quickly. drumpf is continually signalling that the vaccine will be very expensive and I bet he won't have FDA or CDC approve if there's any chance, within a short timeframe, of one made by either his own or a donors' own co.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. I'm not sure that I would get the Trump, Super Rapidly Developed vaccine.

I just wouldn't trust it to be safe or effective. I would at least want to wait for independent scientific verification.

[yellowcanine]

21. I thought the mark of the beast was universal product codes.

This Rapture shit is so confusing.

[GoneOffShore]

22. If there was a vaccine against stupidity, these people wouldn't take it.

[kairos12]

24. Completely correct. Please, never, ever take the vaccine.

[Historic NY]

25. Why does she get a flu shot then?