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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 06:35 PM Jul 2021

Newsmax Host Says Vaccines 'Go Against Nature'

Newsmax Host Says Vaccines ‘Go Against Nature’

July 12, 2021 at 2:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 228 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/07/12/newsmax-host-says-vaccines-get-in-the-way-of-nature/

"SNIP.....

A Newsmax host suggested that coronavirus vaccines may be “against nature,” and asked a university professor if some deadly diseases are “supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people,” The Hill reports.

Said host Rob Schmitt: “Obviously, I’m not a doctor. But I’ve always thought about vaccines, and I always think about just nature and the way everything works. And I feel like a vaccination in a weird way is just generally kind of going against nature.”

He added: “Like, I mean, if there is some disease out there — maybe there’s just an ebb and flow to life where something’s supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people, and that’s just kind of the way evolution goes. Vaccines kind of stand in the way of that.”

......SNIP"

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Newsmax Host Says Vaccines 'Go Against Nature' (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2021 OP
so does Viagra ZonkerHarris Jul 2021 #1
I called it last year. Said you don't see Republican policies spelled out applegrove Jul 2021 #2
It's Opposite Day, Corgigal Jul 2021 #3
So does driving a car, air conditioning and pretty much everything modern. nt Quixote1818 Jul 2021 #4
I dare say he is correct, Big Blue Marble Jul 2021 #5
My thought as well PatSeg Jul 2021 #9
Sadly, it is pure irrationally gone mad! N/T Big Blue Marble Jul 2021 #11
So true, no rhyme or reason whatsoever PatSeg Jul 2021 #16
Don't forget indoor plumbing and HVAC. Hugin Jul 2021 #19
Just burn down all the hospitals and be done with it. NickB79 Jul 2021 #23
The Black Death was natural Sympthsical Jul 2021 #6
Lying is anti American. The Wizard Jul 2021 #7
Future Newsmax staff meeting: "Where did all our viewers go?' tanyev Jul 2021 #8
This Argument Was Seriously Raised Even Into The Nineteenth Century, Sir The Magistrate Jul 2021 #10
It's not God, whatever it is Calculating Jul 2021 #13
Algos Klaralven Jul 2021 #18
I Assume "Nature Boy" Was Doing His Show Butt Nekkid nt smb Jul 2021 #12
All medicine goes against God's will. Run with it conservatives. meadowlander Jul 2021 #14
He's not wrong ... Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2021 #15
The moron probably has gotten all the major vaccines 40-50 years ago. madinmaryland Jul 2021 #17
Watching Newmax on television ... IggleDuer Jul 2021 #20
The Trump cult is a Jim Jones cult. area51 Jul 2021 #21
Someone needs to stroll through an 18th century cemetery NickB79 Jul 2021 #22
Eyeglasses are unnatural NickB79 Jul 2021 #24
"and that's just kind of the way evolution goes." Prof. Toru Tanaka Jul 2021 #25
So do casts. Break a leg, pal. JHB Jul 2021 #26
It is sad that people this illiterate are actually paid to speak so poorly. Quite apart from niyad Jul 2021 #27

applegrove

(118,622 posts)
2. I called it last year. Said you don't see Republican policies spelled out
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 06:36 PM
Jul 2021

anymore because they all result in more americans, or others, dying.

Big Blue Marble

(5,067 posts)
5. I dare say he is correct,
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 06:44 PM
Jul 2021

so do antibiotics, anesthesia, and aspirin, not to mention most modern conveniences and technologies.
Perhaps he would like to be handed a spear for hunting and move into a cave.

Is that not the intent of modern life, to blunt the impact of nature, like say when 4 million humans
have died?

PatSeg

(47,405 posts)
9. My thought as well
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 06:52 PM
Jul 2021

The whole idea behind vaccines is to "go against nature".

It's funny, all these people who don't believe in evolution, sure do believe in survival of the fittest when it suits them.

PatSeg

(47,405 posts)
16. So true, no rhyme or reason whatsoever
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 07:06 PM
Jul 2021

They just adjust "facts" to fit their narrative and they can just as easily change them again tomorrow. After all, that's what Trump did for four years.

Sympthsical

(9,072 posts)
6. The Black Death was natural
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 06:45 PM
Jul 2021

I thought flinging bodies over walls during a siege was a nice touch.

Humans be like that.

The Magistrate

(95,244 posts)
10. This Argument Was Seriously Raised Even Into The Nineteenth Century, Sir
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 06:53 PM
Jul 2021

Against anesthesia, against control of sepsis.

It is hard to escape the conclusion whatever these people worship, it eats human pain.

Calculating

(2,955 posts)
13. It's not God, whatever it is
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 07:02 PM
Jul 2021

It's like these freaks are against any improvement to the human condition, and want us all to suffer.

 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
18. Algos
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 07:19 PM
Jul 2021
In Greek mythology, Algea (Ancient Greek: Ἄ????; singular: Ἄ???? Algos) is used by Hesiod in the plural as the personification of pain, both physical and mental. They were the bringers of weeping and tears. Their Roman counterpart was Dolor.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algos
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
15. He's not wrong ...
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 07:06 PM
Jul 2021

But so does ripping many millions of pounds of fossil fuels out of the ground DAILY and using them to fuel the existence of 6M+ people on this planet, when really the earth should support 1/3 that, at most.

As do all kinds of other things humans have/use/do, like antibiotics, dental care, Rx drugs, and surgeries.

Picking out vaccines to whinge about specifically is a bit perverse, but these are weird people we're talking about.

madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
17. The moron probably has gotten all the major vaccines 40-50 years ago.
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 07:13 PM
Jul 2021

The asshole needs to shut the fuck up!

NickB79

(19,233 posts)
22. Someone needs to stroll through an 18th century cemetery
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 08:38 PM
Jul 2021

And pay close attention to all the headstones of dead children and women who died birthing them. Or the clusters of family that died within weeks of each other from disease outbreaks

There's a reason people had so many kids. Half wouldn't survive to their 10th birthday.

Thank God for our unnatural modern medicine.

NickB79

(19,233 posts)
24. Eyeglasses are unnatural
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 08:41 PM
Jul 2021

Anyone with bad eyesight was meant to walk off a cliff and die. It's what Nature wants!

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(1,952 posts)
25. "and that's just kind of the way evolution goes."
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 12:13 PM
Jul 2021

Hey Schmitt- you right-wing wacko, anti-science religious nuts AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION!

"Vaccines kind of stand in the way of that."

Without vaccines, diseases like smallpox and polio would still be running rampant and the average life span would be less than 50 years. Is that what you want?

These people are stupid beyond belief.

niyad

(113,265 posts)
27. It is sad that people this illiterate are actually paid to speak so poorly. Quite apart from
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 05:14 PM
Jul 2021

the sheer stupidity.

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