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kpete

(72,895 posts)
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:07 PM Jul 2021

Is NewsMax Host, Rob Schmitt suggesting that his audience should be wiped out by covid?

You ever notice these folks never count themselves among the people God chose to wipe out with disease?

Newsmax host Rob Schmitt suggests vaccines are

“against nature,” and some diseases are “supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people”

“That's just kind of the way evolution goes. Vaccines kind of stand in the way of that”




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raccoon

(31,479 posts)
1. I guess this idiot thinks we should throw out all the vaccines we have,
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:11 PM
Jul 2021

Not just covid.

Oh, and turn loose the smallpox viruses now kept in government labs. of course

Jilly_in_VA

(10,989 posts)
4. Well, he certainly is
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:15 PM
Jul 2021

if he's not vaccinated. And I might just dance (or do something else naughty) on his grave!

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
13. I'd bet a shiny nickel he's been vaccinated
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:49 PM
Jul 2021

But yeah, the prevailing belief among these nincompoops seems to be that the virus will not kill them because of some hidden virtue they possess.

Vogon_Glory

(9,590 posts)
5. This argument reminds me of the arguments certain 19th century American
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:19 PM
Jul 2021

Pundits and MDs made about supplying Native Americans and native Hawaiians with anti-smallpox vaccines. Their reasoning was if the natives got sick and died off, then whoopie doo.

The immorality of such an argument aside, I fail to see why we palefaces and others should assume that our immune systems are superior to this disease’s contragion.

COVID might not be the Plague or Spanish Flu Mark II but I’d rather not risk my health.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
6. Well, now those targeted by nature are going to be
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:19 PM
Jul 2021

Rightwing nutcase.

These people are becoming quite nihilistic. Weirdly, he is accepting the efficacy of vaccines. He's now saying they're just unnatural.

It is amazing how deep they are getting just to support Trump's horrific negligence of the crisis. They've gone from Covid is a hoax to Covid is actually good.

StarryNite

(10,870 posts)
7. That same lack of logic could be applied to all medical treatments then.
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:20 PM
Jul 2021

Apparently he had some brain cells wiped out at some point.

Justice matters.

(7,559 posts)
12. It's his audience he wants to get wiped out...
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:44 PM
Jul 2021
That imbecile thinks he'll stay employed without viewers???

Ocelot II

(121,210 posts)
8. So is all medical treatment for everything "against nature" too?
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:20 PM
Jul 2021

No penicillin, no chemo, no surgery, no aspirin, no bandages? If you get sick or injured you'll either get better or die, just like in the good old days - as nature intended.

Lovie777

(15,128 posts)
10. Survival of the Fittest . . .
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:27 PM
Jul 2021

The only thing tho, the survivors will be combined with Liberals, Progressives, Democrats, LGBT and Transgender.

Many survivors also will be POC as well.

world wide wally

(21,835 posts)
11. In other words, he is saying he supports people getting wiped out by the virus, but not the virus
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:40 PM
Jul 2021

being wiped out by people.
So, he is pro-virus and anti humanity is the ONLY conclusion to be drawn from this logic.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
15. Nature/Natural Selection/Evolution provide the disease but they also provide the intelligence to
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 04:30 PM
Jul 2021

develop the vaccine and enable people to see that getting the vaccine is the smart thing to do. Other
people haven't been provided the proper level of smarts. I think Rob Schmitt is missing some smarts.

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