Originally published at: DeSantis administration tells Floridians under 65 not to get Covid shots | Boing Boing
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And some qnut is going to exclaim “you can’t tell me what not to do, I’m getting the shot”
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If only DeathSantis had stock in Covid vax pharma. (sigh)
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I don’t think Turnip identifies with anyone, that would require caring about someone besides himself.
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So if I understand correctly, the problem here is that Republicans who get their information from Ladapo and DeSantis and refuse the vaccine will then get sick in statistically higher numbers than Dems? And if they get Covid, they will stand a higher chance of experiencing severe illness or death?
And all they would have to do to avoid these bad outcomes is seek accurate vaccine info from non-political health professionals?
Not seeing the downside…
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It’s a frickin’ contagious disease!
People getting it means people spreading it which means the rest of us living in a world where covid remains a constant problem
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True! Contagious disease is bad.
But I’m not the one telling my constituents to ignore legitimate health experts, am I?
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So is he trying to kill off everyone under 65? Or, if he’s actually an antivaxx believer, everyone over 65? It’s DeSantis, so it’s a given he’s trying to kill someone.
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These people in power with a death fetish are just scary.
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Assuming DeSantis actually thinks he can beat Trump in the primary, his plan seems to be to out-Trump Trump. That’s all well and good for the primary, but if he wins the nomination (which he almost certainly won’t), what does he think his plan will be for the general? The culture war nonsense and Extremely Online rhetoric he’s peddling send independent voters running for the hills. Does he really think he’s going to make a hard pívot back to the world of reality and no one is going to notice? Or is this all a vanity campaign for the Senate run he’s planning when his term as governor expires?
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I’m guessing FL people over 65 vote overwhelmingly for Republicans.
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So is it that he doesn’t trust the science of the matter… or is he looking to save money by not having all these booster clinics setup around the state? Has anyone gone into the short-term economics of this (long-term of course a no-brainer, 1/10th of the population will be dead and not paying taxes).
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This is a pretty amusing (laugh->cry.gif) nutshell of the Republican pretzel move of telling their older racist voters that they deserve health care, safety nets and other “socialist” interventions while it’s a horrid crime if anyone else gets them. Allowing over 65s to do what’s good for their health, while still allowing them to sneer and throw conspiracies at younger vaxxers taking precautions is almost too tidy a “get the government out of my medicare” analogy.
I must say, I wouldn’t have imagined they could pull off that level of internal inconsistency, so hat’s off to them.
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Tr*mpism single-handedly killed irony. It’s officially dead.
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what makes you think it’s just going to kill certain people? It’s not like that’s what happened at the height of the pandemic. Or that the impacts will only “hurt” right wingers? Or that even if right wingers die, that no one who isn’t right wing won’t be hurt in other ways…
Let’s just not…
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Then you’re not looking very hard.
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