Perhaps it is because the pro Vaxers will ban anyone questioning the safety or efficacy of the jab and ban anyone who promotes treatment options.
Free Republic is one of the few places on the planet where people are given alternative viewpoints.
There are millions of sites where you can pimp your precious vaccine without having to deal with someone rebutting you. Maybe you should go there. But then you wouldn’t get the attention you get here. There you would just be another echo in the chamber.
Antivax is a religion: and they are busy spreading their religion and don't you dare oppose them, you heretic.
They take numbers and shout them, without mentioning the percentage. They talk about “side effects” and count minor side effects to inflate numbers, as if the side effects are serious. They quote Experts who have fancy degrees but may not be experts in the field of epidemiology or microbiology.
they never specify which vaccine they are hyperventilating about.
Are they against the mRNA vaccine? The vaccines based on adenovirus? the attenuated version? mRNA technology is new, but the adenovirus based vaccines have been around for a few years and are being widely used to stop a very large Ebola epidemic in central Africa (something that isn't in the news). And hey, if you want a really really old fashioned vaccine, just use the China's Sinovax, which uses an attenuated virus: That technology goes back a century.
Yes, there are deaths. but the rate is low. As for “side effects” well, the sore arm and low fever are frequent with other vaccines but not serious, but the anti vaxers list them as if they were. And why are blood clots so frequent in young women, but not older women or men? I can think of a reason but never mind.
The dirty little secret is that a lot of the anti vax propaganda comes out of Russia and China.
The Russians pushed the propaganda when I worked in Africa to undermine the western vaccine program that literally saved children. So then the mullahs pick up the rumors and kill the docs and refuse to let the children be vaccinated: Even though we see children die of measles, tetanus and whooping cough.
And now the Chinese have gotten into the fight: we see them on our social networks here in the Philippines and pro Chinese newspapers complaining about the western vaccines and insisting their vaccine is better. Of course, they lie, but never mind. Most Filipinos know Chinese lie. But no, the anti vax types don't know this is propaganda.
Haha I wish I had the power to ban anyone on FR.
There is no such power pro-vaxxers have.
If they had such power why are they allowing 10 times more posts by anti-vaxxers than pro-vaxxers?
You know well who posts like crazy? The unhinged side.
Anyways, more Americans are already vaxxed than combined vote totals of Trump and Biden (including Biden’s fake votes).
Before the end of this year, the total will exceed 3 times votes cast for Trump -or- Biden.