Re: Switzerland, I didn’t expect otherwise. Anthroposophical teachings are basically borderline mainstream there, and there Swiss have the weirdest of nationalism and culturally ingrained libertarian ideas I encountered in Europe, with true love for authoritarian approaches on the one hand and a massive dislike of everything which remotely can be understood as gouvernmental overreach in regard to your (perceived) rights on the other.
Exactly what antivaxxers grow on like a mould.
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We have tons of Waldorf schools in the US – a good friend of mine started one – but few if any of their medical practitioners. I know Steiner had some really odd ideas about childhood diseases originating from inner struggles of the spirit, but as far as I can tell the modern anthropops are not antivax.
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Lots of them are, over here. Can make for interesting dinner conversations.
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What’s his handicap?
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I fill up a pocket-sized container from larger ones at home. If nothing else, cooking it in a hot car will destroy its effectiveness once the alcohol is gone.
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Criminally negligent parents?
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Friends tried to convince us to send our kid there for preschool. Then we looked up the vaccination rates…
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If you have a Venn diagram of germanophone antivaxxers, flat earthers and electrosensitives, anthroposophics are right in the middle. You can also add preachers of homeopathy, TCM and acupuncture, and they still be right in the middle. Don’t get me wrong, Waldorf schools are very different between each other, and especially in germanophone countries the larger majority of pupils aren’t sent there because their parents are into anthroposophy. But in every school you will find a larger number of people belonging to more than one of the groups above, and I bet a bottle of whisky that both average and median of this number are higher than in any other type of school.
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That was not fair to the president. The NYT cropped the picture in a very unfair way. Here is the original, he was hard at work helping to bury all the bodies.
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Heartlessness? 
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Microcheirusy.
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A reminder of what our means when people like Trump go golfing.
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We don’t have many actual anthroposophists in the the US; the overwhelming majority of the people who send their kids to the Waldorf schools here are not followers of Steiner. However, I can well believe that as a group such parents tend towards antivaxx. Probably more than actual anthropops; I have found this statement from the society:
Vaccines, together with health education, hygiene and adequate nutrition, are essential tools for preventing infectious diseases. Vaccines have saved countless lives over the last century; for example, they allowed the eradication of small pox and are currently allowing the world to approach the elimination of polio. Anthroposophic Medicine fully appreciates the contribution of vaccines to global health and firmly supports vaccination as an important measure to prevent life threatening diseases. Anthroposophic Medicine is not anti-vaccine and does not support anti-vaccine movements.
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Reading that makes me want to share a more positive version of Social Distance Flirting - I was walking home from the store on a warm sunny day recently, and though I was wearing a mask I was also dressed for the weather in a mid-drift cropped tee shirt and some yoga pants.
I passed by a guy parked on a motorcycle with the visor of his helmet up as he fiddled with something. From about 10 feet away he called out ;
“Hey there, beautiful!”
I laughed and joked back “Thanks; How can you tell, though?” pointing to my mask.
I swear his eyes smoldered as he quickly looked me up and down once, then replied languidly, “Oh… I can tell.”
I blushed, laughed again and then kept walking.
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That somehow implies he’s being helpful. He’s not.
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