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Anti-Vaccination Activists Are Growing Force at Virus Protests
NY Times ^ | 5/2/2020 | Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

Posted on 05/03/2020 7:01:18 PM PDT by wastedyears

The protest on Friday in Sacramento urging California’s governor to reopen the state resembled the rallies that have appeared elsewhere in the country, with crowds flocking to the State Capitol, pressing leaders to undo restrictions on businesses and daily life.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antivaxxers; covid; newyorkslimes; vaccine
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1 posted on 05/03/2020 7:01:18 PM PDT by wastedyears
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To: wastedyears

That you. Bill?


2 posted on 05/03/2020 7:03:03 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: wastedyears

Their bodies....their choice, eh, lefties?

I forgot...that only applies to abortion. /s


3 posted on 05/03/2020 7:04:40 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Tase ‘em and vaccinate ‘em.


4 posted on 05/03/2020 7:07:08 PM PDT by damper99
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To: wastedyears

Good. Only a fascist would be ok with mandatory vaccination.


5 posted on 05/03/2020 7:08:44 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: wastedyears
(Trump) - "Take 2 of these Hydrochlorquine and Zinc and call me in the morning."

(Leftists) - "You're not a doctor! Screw you Drumpf!"

(Bill Gates) - "Take this unproven vaccine shot that has killed hundreds in 3rd world countries and call me in the morning."

(Leftists) - "Oh boy! Where do I sign up?"

6 posted on 05/03/2020 7:12:37 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: damper99

And if the same sort of mortality arises as with the disastrous polio vaccine in India, round up every single forced vaccinator and publically hang them.

No exceptions.


7 posted on 05/03/2020 7:12:43 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: wastedyears

Mis-direction.

NYT trying to distort the event with buzzwords intended evoke knee-jerk reactions.

They truly are fake news.


8 posted on 05/03/2020 7:16:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: wastedyears

There are a few existing viruses in the corona family. None have a successful vaccine so far!


9 posted on 05/03/2020 7:19:25 PM PDT by entropy12 (covid-19 separates the fearful from the freedom loving! If I am not afraid, no one should be.)
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To: wastedyears
If a doctor or nurse says your one-day old baby must get a vaccine for Hepatitis B, which is effectively only transmitted by infected needles or infected anal sex, it’s because they expect one of those things to happen to them before they ever get the flu.
10 posted on 05/03/2020 7:19:50 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: wastedyears

They don’t want to let people have the option to control what goes into their bodies.

Especially because they are exempt from legal lawsuits for death and damages.


11 posted on 05/03/2020 7:21:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: wastedyears

“For example, an adherent of QAnon, a group of conspiracy theorists, was among the first to spread the canard that Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, was behind the creation and spreading of the virus as a means to grab control over the global health system. People opposing mandatory vaccinations quickly picked up on that theme, and Mr. Gates has become a new boogeyman of the far right.”

Ah. QAnon no less. :-)


12 posted on 05/03/2020 7:23:11 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

naturally, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs is not the sole writer. at bottom, Shawn Hubler and Neil MacFarquhar contributed reporting.

FakeNewsMSM is determined to frame the protesters as anti-vaxxer, gun-toting, Tea Party, conspiracy theorist types.

meanwhile, NYT has spent years promoting one conspiracy theory after another - Russia hoax, Ukraine hoax, Impeachment hoax, Covid biggest pandemic since 1918 hoax.

bunch of wa**ers.


13 posted on 05/03/2020 7:42:57 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Bill Gates) - "Take this unproven vaccine shot that has killed hundreds in 3rd world countries and call me in the morning."

(Leftists) - "Oh boy! Where do I sign up?"


If that were the case, I would have no problem with it. Everyone has the right to be stupid with their own health and welfare. However, the REAL leftist response is this:

Leftist: "Bill Gates says we should take his unproven vaccine? Oh boy! Let's make it mandatory for everyone! And shame and harass those who refuse!"
14 posted on 05/03/2020 7:45:46 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: MAGAthon

at the very least the headline and text should have said:

Activists known for their opposition to SOME vaccines, or MANDATORY, NOT PROPERLY TESTED vaccines.


15 posted on 05/03/2020 7:46:05 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: damper99
Tase ‘em and vaccinate ‘em.

So you're in favor of the government using force to inject something into someone against their will? Do you support the police enforcing tyrannical edicts that have no basis in law?

16 posted on 05/03/2020 7:47:37 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: ConservativeMind

I don’t have kids and will happily live a child-free life.

That said, I would have a kid vaccinated, but fewer at one time spread out over a longer period of time.


17 posted on 05/03/2020 7:50:17 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: wastedyears

Media: play up most extreme of the conservatives. Play up the most moderate of the anti-conservatives.

We’ve got a meme to support!


18 posted on 05/03/2020 7:54:23 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: entropy12

Aren’t some strains of the common cold coronaviruses? And don’t these often mutate?

How do you create a vaccine for something that’s mutating, and for which several strains may be going around?

I’ve only taken the ‘regular’ flu vaccine twice. Got the flu one year despite it, and one year felt bad for months after the shot. In the several years since I decided to stop getting the shot, I’ve caught nothing.

I think there are vaccines that actually work; but vaccines for things like this seem like a crapshoot.

I hope I’m wrong; maybe all the testing will result in knowledge at least of the main strain we’re seeing here. I guess we’ll find out the first season a new vaccine for Covid-19 is used.


19 posted on 05/03/2020 7:55:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: entropy12

True.

Would be great if this mess ends up with a coronavirus treatment/cur/vaccinee.


20 posted on 05/03/2020 7:57:19 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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