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Color Me Skeptical's avatar

With respect to the anti-vaccine stance of DeSantis and the current Republican party, I say please let them continue their natural experiment. In Arizona, the margin of victory in several of the close state-wide races is small enough that one of the contributing factors is likely the higher number of deaths of MAGA voters due to COVID.

100 years ago, people who made stupid choices frequently experienced the consequences of those choices, good and hard. Maybe we're seeing a repeat of that?

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Eric Fry's avatar

It starts with covid and eventually maga brings polio back to life.

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Bridget Collins's avatar

My motto.

"Evolution works best when we let stupidity be fatal."

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knowltok's avatar

We probably can't stop them, but there are consequences outside of the fully stupid. There are kids. There are those who can't take a particular vaccine for some reason. There are those for whom the vaccine doesn't work (99.5% effective means 1.65M people who will be unprotected even if they get the vaccine in question.

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