The photo is of a hardcore antivaxer who took ivermectin and then died.

The drawing is a picture of a horse by the immortal artist Lisa Frank.

  • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    Being antivax turns you into a plague rat. They value their pride more than the lives of everyone around them. Not gonna waste tears over someone that wants me dead.

    If his shit decisions only affected him, then fine, but it doesn’t. It hurts everyone trying to get through this safely.

    • WranglesGammon [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Fair enough if this was just a small handful of people, but given that the anti-vax movement is tens to hundreds of millions strong it makes it far more of a structural failing than a personal one. Not to mention that many anti-vaxxers are trying to spread information they genuinely believe is for the wellbeing of their communities.

      Yeah they're obviously wrong, but it's pretty fucking lib to ignore the structural reasons for their misinformed position and make it about personal responsibility

      :president-parrot-naked:

      • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        Not to mention that many anti-vaxxers are trying to spread information they genuinely believe is for the wellbeing of their communities.

        So are nazis. That makes it worse.

        the anti-vax movement is tens to hundreds of millions strong

        Probably won’t be for much longer.

        :doomer:

        ignore the structural reasons for their misinformed position and make it about personal responsibility

        It’s both. We live in a society and that society is unfortunately structured around personal responsibility.

        Every single elected official with the power to fix this systemically who isn’t doing anything is also to blame.