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Peggy Popham gets her flu shot every year, despite her daughter Lauras opposition to vaccines.
Im 70 and Ive gotten sick before, said Popham. I dont have a great immune system.
Popham, who spoke to Yahoo News by phone while quarantining at home in Asheville, N.C., acknowledges that the same factors put her at risk for the coronavirus. Of course, she said, shes worried about contracting COVID-19.
But shes more worried about a possible vaccine for it.
Absolutely not, she said. I would not take the vaccine.
Thats a view shared by nearly one in five Americans, according to a recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll, which found that an additional 26 percent werent sure if theyd take it. Some of them no doubt have been influenced by the anti-vaccine disinformation that has been spreading for more than a decade on social media although that has been directed primarily at routine childhood immunizations and their hypothesized link to autism. Pophams reasons arent medical: They are religious and political.
Popham believes that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert on the administrations coronavirus task force, is part of the deep state along with Bill Gates, another prominent villain of coronavirus conspiracy theorists. She believes their interest in developing a coronavirus vaccine is driven by money as well as a socialist agenda designed to get control of us. Based on research shes done online, Popham thinks its likely that the vaccine will include some sort of human tracking device.
https://news.yahoo.com/evangelicals-fear-the-mark-of-the-beast-from-a-coronavirus-vaccine-183249943.html
cos dem
(902 posts)They'll be in limited supply anyway when they come out. More for the rest of us.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,165 posts)Or man's treatment of the planet. As some may theorize,
This could be a sub category of that cleanse. The gun humpers, religion cultists, RW conspiracy theorists, and the rest of the idiocracy.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)eShirl
(18,480 posts)Clash City Rocker
(3,390 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,077 posts)everything seems to tick these people off, no matter what. That's fine. They'll die just like they did during the dark ages, w/ the black plague, small pox and other epidemics. Only problem is that they'll bring down everyone else that doesn't believe as they do, by continuing to go out shopping, attending services by the hundreds still (not online), funerals, birthday parties, etc.
These idiots need to have the oxygen taken out of the room/out of their sails, and I suspect that the CV is doing this already, slowly but surely. All it takes is one point of contact, and BOOM, another CV infection starts ramping up in that community. How long will it take before authorities are brave enough to ignore emotional outbursts and instead, listen to science and reason, based upon real data?
zak247
(251 posts)These religious ignoramuses don't see the fact that there is no beast but Trump and they, the supposed religious give power to the beast when they support Trump, the true beast of the apocalypse.
jayfish
(10,037 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,719 posts)Not every crackpot theory gets the protections of religious faith.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Yes !
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)woodsprite
(11,905 posts)stopbush
(24,393 posts)onecaliberal
(32,786 posts)Jirel
(2,014 posts)We wont miss the crackpots.
Lost is the irony that theyre worrying about secret tracking devices in the vaccine while tweeting about it on the tracking device in their pocket.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Severe trust issues with anything related to these super crooks.
lark
(23,065 posts)I don't trust HIM. He'd kill tens of thousands of us if it profited him even $1, he's so full of hate and greed.
If the vaccine originates in Oxford or some other place that cares about science and people and has ZERO affiliation with any drumpfs' or kushners', & it's covered by Medicare (one huge potential problem) I will sign up quickly. drumpf is continually signalling that the vaccine will be very expensive and I bet he won't have FDA or CDC approve if there's any chance, within a short timeframe, of one made by either his own or a donors' own co.
Crunchy Frog
(26,578 posts)I just wouldn't trust it to be safe or effective. I would at least want to wait for independent scientific verification.
yellowcanine
(35,694 posts)This Rapture shit is so confusing.