... anti-vaxxer lunatics are snatching covid defeat from the jaws of vaccinated victory ...

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PIERS MORGAN: America's anti-vaxxer lunatics are snatching covid defeat from the jaws of vaccinated victory with their conspiracy-theory garbage and must be stopped from destroying everybody's freedom

Op-Ed in the Daily Fail, which makes the story all the more telling when you think about it.

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Put bluntly, a lot of deluded, ill-informed, shamefully scare-mongered, or simply complacent Americans have got it into their heads that either the covid vaccines are somehow more dangerous than covid itself, or the virus isn't serious enough to warrant protection from it.

Some of these sceptics believe the insane conspiracy-theory that the US Government is using vaccines to plant microchips in their heads to control their minds. (Don't laugh: a recent Economist/YouGov poll revealed that 20% of Americans really do suspect this.)

Many more, tens of millions of people across the United States, are hesitant to get jabbed for all manner of other reasons ranging from doubts about the vaccine's efficacy, to a fear they impair fertility, damage pregnancy, alter DNA, magnetize you, or even actively help transmit the virus.


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1. They call it "their rights"

which cover a lot of reasons they are too afraid to say out loud. They apparently have the right to assure the worst outcome, as in death and disability, for an entire country. This is a fatal flaw in our governing documents.