Yes, but doesn’t explain similar behavior elsewhere. For example, here’s the latest from London:
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I’m curious to see how these numbers change over the next few months. We’re already seeing more hypocrisy and flip-flopping among GOP leaders, so maybe their followers will also choose to save themselves. Not sure how many have gone full GQP at this point:
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You mean, the country that keeps trying to be like its more successful – yet younger – sibling?
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Sure, but there were also antivaxx protests in other countries – 160k in France, for example. I think it is clear Americans have no lock on this kind of bad behavior. We simply set an example for everyone else.
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His approach of ordering health workers to get vaccinated by Sept. 15, and telling the rest of the French population they will be denied access to most indoor public venues if unvaccinated or without a negative test by Aug. 1, has prompted other countries including Italy to follow suit, even as it has stirred pockets of deep resistance.
Barreling through 1,200 proposed amendments, defying accusations of authoritarianism and chaos from the hard right and left, the lower house voted by 117 to 86 to back President Macron’s attempt to strong-arm the French to get vaccinated by making their lives miserable if they do not.
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Those who wouldn’t eat the carrots are about to get the stick.
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Reminds me of somethiing I once read
“… I favour the carrot and stick approach.”
“Carrot or stick.”
“Nope. I use the stick to ram the carrot up their arses. That generally gets results.” Lamb frowned. “I hope you don’t think I’m using metaphor. This is not a fucking poetry reading.”
It looked like a fucking poetry reading, though, inasmuch as there were few people there, and none of them stylishly dressed.
London Rules, by Mick Herron
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You know things are getting really wacky when the juice has the moral high ground over an anti vaxxer
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B.S.! You don’t have a right to drive at 0.08 alcohol consumption in your blood. You don’t have a right to drive over 80 miles per hour… Those are safety issues. This whole thing is about safety–public safety–it’s not about your rights.”
Well that explains this
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I can get behind that; if you consider that ‘education’ is the vaccine to Trumpism, that sentence works just fine with the substituted wording.
Well it’s not like Elizabeth did every single thing in that entire era.
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When OJ Simpson has become the Voice of Reason we have entered uncharted territory of weirdness. Wow.
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Yeah, and now, for something completely different:
Kidding, of course. Same shit, different day. “But surely it couldn’t affect us!”
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Is that in SAE or metric?
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I got my second Pfizer dose yesterday. Today, I can barely hold my head up (much less use it). The side effects were pretty bad after my first dose too (glad I can still work from home), but that’s how you know it’s working!
I am not looking forward to the third dose, but I imagine that it will become necessary down the line…
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It’s also largely the same (mostly right-wing) conspiracy theories, spread by the internet, only with less obvious Trumpism: Bill Gates and George Soros, depopulation / sterilization via vaccines, the whole pandemic being created for control / for Big Pharma to make money, corona restrictions are meant to ease in a global dictatorship by the elites (read: the Jews), etc.
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Makes you wonder if there’s a suggested course of action from actual experts on the topic (like an injection) that makes the illness so much easier to handle in the future
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First I’ve seen numbers put to the risk of breakthrough infections:
0.098% of fully vaccinated people have had symptomatic breakthrough infections, with much smaller but non-zero percentages leading to hospitalization or death. (0.006% and 0.0015% in MA, at least) Vaccines are very efective, exceptionally so, but perfect is not a thing in medicine. No, the unvaccinated are not putting only themselves at risk, and they are providing the space to develop a more vaccine-avoiding strain. Of course, if you don’t do science, none of that means anything, and that is kind of where we are. SMFH.
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