As anti-vax movement gets weirder--and dumber--Facebook announces crackdown

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4. This nonsense is being amplified by chaos agents and fits into . . .

distrusting anything the government, science community and/or experts in the field say. It didn't just start with the Trumpster era. If you recall, Sarah Palin made snide remarks about intellectuals and experts, how everyone and anyone could simply trust their common sense. Or the Trumpster trusting his gut. This whole alternative medicine craze has picked up steam over the last few decades, exploited by right-wing radio and witch doctors claiming miraculous benefits from beneficial oils, magic stones, copper bracelets. They keep it up, we'll be deciding questions of war and peace by throwing chicken bones on the ground.

Anyone willing to trust their common sense neighbor to perform your heart surgery or fly you cross-country on a plane?

I don't think so.

Yet we have the likes of Rand Paul admitting he and his family have been vaccinated while saying he understands the problem mass vaccination poses to 'personal liberty.'

The liberty to die an unnecessary death or better yet infect someone with a low immune response, as in infants, the elderly or the medically compromised.

It's a selfish and stupid philosophy, a dog-eat-dog position.

These nitwits would to take us backwards. Maybe The Dark Ages. That was a roaring good time.

We need to stop the stupid. Before it kills us all.