Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/04/01/defying-all-logic-anti-vaxxers-hold-a-convention.html
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That sounds like a very unconventional convention.
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in the good old days the grass was greener and the Earth was flatter
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But the entrepreneurs gathered in Vegas
omfg, just also the possible biggest and worst place to hold any kind of convention in the US if you’re not vaccinated.
Just wow.
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Anti-vaxxers are working to pull together a system of services that will take their business, as they are increasingly finding that they are being shut out of systems and places that respect others.
Unfortunate, in a way, that there is insufficient land to send these fine gentlefolk to establish a (likely dooomed) alternative society for themselves. And/or golgafrinchan spaceship. Always the initial (haphazard) feeling of "OK then, why don’t you take your antisocial notions and go waaay over there?
-sigh-
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"They believe that the governments are against them, intellectuals are against them, that science is moving in the opposite direction, that science education is moving in the opposite direction. "
And me!!
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If you reject vaccines then it seems you are rejecting medical science all together. But where do these folks go for help when they get sick?
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They just take colloidal silver and essential oils.
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Holy do they ever. I have people in my social circle that have gone full wacky with this stuff. It was always a hazard, but the last 4 years have really brought out the fear and paranoia.
As with any wacky notion, there is always a kernel of truth. There are plenty of well documented reasons to distrust the various institutions, which have been so horridly corrupted by entities like Pharma companies. But the solution isn’t to make up wild nonsense, it’s to emplace and empower meaningful oversight that has a public health mandate.
Nope, instead it’s turning their children blue and oil of oregano for back pain. Sigh.
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What venue in their right mind would voluntarily host an antivaxxer convention? In addition to the disease risk, they are shunned and disliked by most people, because they deserve to be. That stigma is going to be shared by anyone enabling these human plague rats.
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This seems like a problem that will ultimately solve itself.
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Maybe they could call the ship they sail to this new land, “Mayflower”…
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I’ve been catching up on the podcast Oh No Ross and Carrie after not having listened to it for years, and where i’m at is them discussing antivax homeopathic nonsense they’ve investigated and the various claims are so utterly devoid of logic that it’s honestly hard to listen to. Still making my way through it but it’s upsetting listening to the dumb stuff people peddle that is making other folks’ health worse.
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Hopefully what they spread and catch stays in Vegas.
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Measles, Covid and Influenza had a very good week.
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Can’t spell “conspiracism” without “racism.”
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Unfortunately, with a lot of collateral damage.
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Vegas literally does not give a single fornication.
If people can throw their mortgages into poker hands and bet their life’s savings on puns in horses’ names, this is just another gamble for Vegas to make money from. The only risk to Vegas’ bottom-line is if their employees get sick. And there are always more employees.
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I hope the staff had hazmat suits.
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