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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear Anti- Vax folks aka Snowflakes (thanks KO)
If you think you know more about Covid than someone with a Medical Degree
and a graduate degree associated with viruses as well as years of research on viruses, you're an even bigger idiot than we thought
If you think you know more than someone with a graduate science degree related to viruses when you never passed a science course at any level in high school, you're a damned fool If you think your research on anything is equal to experts who have been peer reviewed...in plain English, you deserve to be "Cained".
Your ignorance is not equal to knowledge and that word has meaning
Get a vaccine, get out of the way and STFU!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215940497
Ocelot II
(115,570 posts)There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
malaise
(268,637 posts)He was 100% correct
Celerity
(43,057 posts)malaise
(268,637 posts)Ocelot II
(115,570 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,935 posts)OLDMDDEM
(1,568 posts)MissMillie
(38,525 posts)Well, OF COURSE IT DOES! Otherwise we wouldn't be learning anything about this virus.
I'm actually COMFORTED that we're learning enough to change strategy as the pandemic continues.
malaise
(268,637 posts)They are incredibly stupid people pretending to be more knowledgeable than people who spend their lives studying these things.
The Slobfather is their king - an ignorant and proud fool.
NickB79
(19,219 posts)It's why they're drawn to evangelical churches where you believe and don't question. Accept simple answers that require very little critical thought.
That's why science is scary to them. The idea that someone could change their mindset based on new data is incomprehensible.
malaise
(268,637 posts)ten commandments - they are quite selective
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ismnotwasm
(41,955 posts)A family member follows. It posts, among other things, horrific pictures of disabled and dead people, supposedly after being vaccinated. It lacks any credibility at all. Yet here we are.
How do I know about this ? My niece. She also find misinformation from her mothers original country, the Philippines. She doesnt research she blindly looks at gory pictures and decides that is what shes going to believe.
All this would bother me a lot less, except my mother, who my niece loves and helps, is not vaccinated because of this. Shes 83. Its only a matter of time before she is exposed and the only reason it hasnt happened is my niece is not a social person, and I live in a heavily vaccinated area.
Im an RN in Seattle and I work on a heavily immunocompromised floor, so only had to deal with a few covid patients. (I did the dialysis on number of them though) But we have to deal with the fall-out of critical nursing shortage right now. Its getting to the point of complete exhaustion.
malaise
(268,637 posts)Your poor mother -hang in there - you're the good folks
ismnotwasm
(41,955 posts)kairos12
(12,841 posts)surgeon is qualified who can play that game where you take parts of the body out without setting off the buzzer.
So there.