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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe right's ongoing anti-vaccine propaganda is "literally ritual human sacrifice on a mass scale"
/v1/fit/w_320,h_180,al_c,q_80/file.pngSince last summer, the conservative campaign against vaccination has claimed thousands of lives for no ethically justifiable purpose.
By Kurt Andersen
...That first summer, as Republicans settled into their anti-testing, anti-lockdown, anti-mask, nothing-to-worry-about orthodoxy, Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, said it was like a policy of mass human sacrifice. The anthropology professor Shan-Estelle Brown and the researcher Zoe Pearson wrote that people who continued to do their jobs outside their homes were essentially victims of involuntary human sacrifice, made to look voluntary...
...for more than a year, weve had astoundingly effective vaccines that radically reduce the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. All of which means that for a long time now the rights ongoing propaganda campaign against and organized political resistance to vaccination, among other public-health protocols, has been killing many, many Americans for no reasonable, ethically justifiable social purpose.
In other words, what weve experienced certainly since the middle of 2021 is literally ritual human sacrifice on a mass scalethe real thing, comparable to the innumerable ghastly historical versions
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/human-sacrifice-ritual-mass-vaccination/621355/
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Hotler
(11,422 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,092 posts)as human sacrifices. For the purpose of GOP total permanent power.
KS Toronado
(17,237 posts)What will Qublicans do then?
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)It's their own unvaccinated cult members who are dying. They're fine with it.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,622 posts)DFW
(54,384 posts)I do NOT want them taking a hospital bed away from someone who needs care and tried NOT to get sick.
Other than that, I can't generate any sympathy whatsoever for these people, and can generate a LOT of anger toward those who influence others not to get vaccinated. That's like inviting them to a game of Russian Roulette, convincing them it's fun and no more dangerous than not playing at all.
sop
(10,185 posts)I suspect in the beginning it was an orchestrated effort to cull the old, weak and undesirable; they hoped Covid-19 deaths could be confined to large cities in blue states.
cadoman
(792 posts)And yes, it's beyond certain it's being committed.
They will literally say anything in order to kill you to obtain power from their god. Lies about vaccine safety. Lies about mask efficacy. Lies about the life saving properties of Remdesivir. Lies about lockdowns. Lies about vaccine passports and social credit scores. Lies about horse paste and hydroxychloriscam. All the while they know the truth.
They are fucking sick. Thankfully Trudeau, Morrison, and Ardern are showing people the true way forward.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)She is amazing with my hair but YE GODS the stuff out of her mouth. The world is going to complete hell and its all Bidens fault. Of course she and her husband never got vaccinated - even though her mother, in a nursing home, had Covid (before vaccines) and thankfully recovered. I know I shouldnt go near her but Im vaxxed and boostered and Im too vain to let anyone else near my hair.
So after avoiding Covid all this time, she and her husband got Omicron recently. They recovered and it was just a cold. So we shouldnt have masks or vaccine mandates because its just a cold and its ridiculous *the government* is doing this! I kept my mouth shut, no point trying to say anything. So typical Republican - it didnt really affect me so who cares about anyone else it might affect.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)to stumble on to this YouTube video yesterday. He is taking about the death drive, and why its so important for some people to believe they are right. About ten mins long, if anyone wants to watch it.
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)If this doesn't explain DFG I don't know what does!!
Edit to add: DFG and Jim Jones' cult - how they both need to be idolized.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Yeah, it scared me too. Also explains why I cant reach antiVaxers.