Anti-vaxers: Another little exercise in natural selection?

[skip fox]

It's easy to write them off (esp. with a joke) but a number of these people are being manipulated by Trump, Mike Lindell, Fox News, etc.

Should gullibility cam at such a high price, or should we waste our breath and risk animosity to try to set them straight?

If so, what is the best message?

The one I think would be most effective is the data on the Delta variant: that you only need to be exposed for seconds as opposed to 10 minutes like the others.

Any better ones?

[lagomorph777]

1. MAGATS are choosing to die.

I say, "Let them."

All the more votes for us.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. They need to figure it out.

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This Delta version might ultimately be the teaching moment. It will be difficult to explain why vaccinated people aren't dying like the un-vaccinated. Most likely they or their loved ones will contract a more virulent version of Covid. Some will lilkely die. Maybe then they will start to question all of the lies they have been told. Seems to me that people who "come into the light" will become "the tip of the spear" to lead this country back from the partisan divide.

Or maybe I'm being an optimist....

[PortTack]

10. Nothing wrong with being an optimist.

[greymattermom]

3. So do insurance companies have to pay the hospital bills

for vaccine refusers with no medical excuse?

[fescuerescue]

7. Yes. To do otherwise would violate the ACA law

Preconditions.

[Pobeka]

13. Unfortunately, that means *my* premium will go up too.

Even though I did all the right things. This is beyond random event driven illness, this is self-caused illness. I hope insurance companies can make a new grouping for people who get vaccinated, and those who don't.

[fescuerescue]

15. Yes. That's the nature of risk pools

ACA will not allow that. ACA is very specific on how insurance companies can create their risk pools.

There is no provisions in ACA to allow for separate risk pools for vaccination status.

https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/risk-pools/

[Diamond_Dog]

4. They apparently would rather die

Than follow policy recommended by scientists and liberals.

[Notek]

8. I think

You hit the nail on the head, Diamond Dog.

[-misanthroptimist]

5. We might see an interesting thing in 2022

What might (and I'm saying "might", not "will&quot happen is that the Delta variant may kill and disable enough Republicans that all their attempted game fixing wrt voting turns out to be for naught. They might very well come to rue the restrictions they are placing on mail-in voting and "ballot harvesting."

[fescuerescue]

6. I had never heard the 10 minute exposure before

That's quite interesting.

[roamer65]

9. ..

Enjoy the show!

[Sherman A1]

11. The information is readily available

Has been so and will continue to be just as are the vaccines. That some choose to ignore the information and vaccines is their doing and if the then contract the disease that is just too bad.

[Faux pas]

12. ...

Dying trying to prove science and medicine wrong? They're only proving themselves unfit for survival IMHO

[OnDoutside]

14. Masks.

Hit them with the reality that the dropping of the mask mandate will mean that they won't know who has Covid and who doesn't. The burden of wearing masks has actually turned onto them. They now need to protect themselves from their fellow assholes.