This is a horrifying but illuminating microcosm of #antivax in action: https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-trump-science-autism-9b99621b01f11b7f0bdc81e5a0b82d2b
#Vaccination is quite possibly the most heavily studied kind of #healthcare in existence. We have more data about the #safety and #efficacy of #vaccines than *anything else* we do to keep people alive and healthy. The conclusions from that data are overwhelming and inescapable: vaccines work.
Antivaxers will never, ever accept any amount of evidence. Nothing will ever satisfy them. You will never change their minds. They have chosen the side of lethal #pathogens over the side of their fellow human beings, and they are fixed in their #treason.
Thanks to current politics, they now have the power to propagate their lunacy via the law. We can no longer, on a national level, protect ourselves from them by #publichealth means. So what can you do to stay alive?
First, cut them out of your life. They may be your parents or siblings or children, your spouses or lovers, your oldest and closest friends. Doesn't matter. The people you thought you knew and loved are dead—as dead as they want to make you. Cast out the walking corpses wearing their skin.
Second, stop wasting time. Don't try to reason with them. They will happily goad you into presenting a long, carefully reasoned argument, and then laugh at you, gleefully spraying infectious spittle across your face. The space between their ears is nothing but disease.
Third, do what you can locally. States and cities and businesses can, at least for now, deny services to the walking dead. Every school, every office, every store, *especially* every clinic and hospital, can and must make them pariahs.
And frankly, even if this kind of self-defense becomes illegal, it's probably still worth the risk. Consider the alternative.
In short, stop treating them like they're people. Maybe they used to be, and it's natural to remember that. But they're not now, and they never will be again.
Mourn them and move on. Do what you can to keep yourself safe, and those still worthy of your love. Survive.
