The right's ongoing anti-vaccine propaganda is "literally ritual human sacrifice on a mass scale"
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Since last summer, the conservative campaign against vaccination has claimed thousands of lives for no ethically justifiable purpose.
By Kurt Andersen
...That first summer, as Republicans settled into their anti-testing, anti-lockdown, anti-mask, nothing-to-worry-about orthodoxy, Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, said it was “like a policy of mass human sacrifice.” The anthropology professor Shan-Estelle Brown and the researcher Zoe Pearson wrote that people who continued to do their jobs outside their homes were essentially victims of “involuntary human sacrifice, made to look voluntary...”
...for more than a year, we’ve had astoundingly effective vaccines that radically reduce the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. All of which means that for a long time now the right’s ongoing propaganda campaign against and organized political resistance to vaccination, among other public-health protocols, has been killing many, many Americans for no reasonable, ethically justifiable social purpose.
In other words, what we’ve experienced certainly since the middle of 2021 is literally ritual human sacrifice on a mass scale—the real thing, comparable to the innumerable ghastly historical versions…
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/human-sacrifice-ritual-mass-vaccination/621355/
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What will Qublicans do then? 
She is amazing with my hair but YE GODS the stuff out of her mouth. The world is going to complete hell and it’s all Biden’s fault. Of course she and her husband never got vaccinated - even though her mother, in a nursing home, had Covid (before vaccines) and thankfully recovered. I know I shouldn’t go near her but I’m vaxxed and boostered and I’m too vain to let anyone else near my hair.
So after avoiding Covid all this time, she and her husband got Omicron recently. They recovered and it was “just a cold.” So we shouldn’t have masks or vaccine mandates because it’s just a cold and it’s ridiculous *the government* is doing this! I kept my mouth shut, no point trying to say anything. So typical Republican - “it didn’t really affect me so who cares about anyone else it might affect.” 
