Got a call from my one brother from back home Appalachia COVID death

[Duncanpup]

Hey so and so we grew up with passed from COVID my brother told me on phone ,he was not vaccinated bro they were all anti vax he told me ,oh well I said dumb fuck he had choice.

So the more anti vaxers the less anti vaxers thing is we’re not top of the food chain as in we are not the most vicious predator. And you’re that stupid to believe the Q crowd over science that’s called thinning the herd.

Yet vaccines and science does give us the advantage of getting through, example I’m 55 and I have that mark on my left shoulder from inoculations as a child and so did this dude that passed he was my age we went school together.

[XanaDUer2]

1. I'm sorry nt

[Duncanpup]

2. I'm not dude had choice

Yet cool thanks

[XanaDUer2]

4. You're welcome nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. You and your brother are the smart ones, my dear Duncanpup.

Our numbers will grow as the anti-vaxxers lose their lives to the preventable virus.

Thinning the herd, indeed!

[Walleye]

5. Vaccination rate is high with the demographic that lived through polio epidemic

Don’t know how somebody our age could reject vaccines

[appalachiablue]

6. Exactly

[LiberalArkie]

18. I went to my MD to check on all my immunizations and see if I was up to date.

I saw the sign on the wall about getting a car HEP vaccination. I ask my doc and she said that all my age group (boomers) is assumed to have it. I asked her why and she said the way the school nurses gave the shots, 1 after another person with the same needle.

In other words if the first person had it, them the whole school had it. Us boomers are so lucky to have gotten old, hell it might be what we get old, we have already had just about every disease known and unknown.

[appalachiablue]

20. I never heard about that, wow and thanks!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Fear subsides over generations

We may remember the terror of polio, may know people who had it, remember the leg braces and iron lungs.

We probably have no memory of the scourges of smallpox or diptheria, since the vaccines/inoculations have been around way longer than even our parents have been alive.

Polio is not much feared, as it seems to be relegated to remote countries where there are worse things to fear.

[True Blue American]

17. Anyone who remembers fears polio.

On the other shots they were mandated for school. Your kids had the shots! No question.
The SupremeCourt we have now did a huge dis service with their ruling.

[SheltieLover]

7. Natural selection includes using one's brain, Dunc.

[viva la]

8. I'm wondering if now that there have been so many antivaxxer deaths...

That they've been culled from the potential targets of the virus, and we'll see a decrease in serious cases.

Often also they've infected others in their family. Not to be brutal-- I want everyone to live long and happy- but this really is the Darwin Effect at work. The stupid and stubborn are stupidly and stubbornly jumping off the covid cliff.

[Walleye]

12. Darwin will win in the end but unfortunately most of these have procreated already

Still it helps to thin the herd of the potential virus hosts

[Jilly_in_VA]

10. This is the kind of person

that the phrase "Sorry not sorry" was invented for. I have a lot of people in my past that are in that category.

[Sherman A1]

11. Well, it is a shame

But , as you said by he had a choice and chose poorly.

Knew a fellow from Nashville area that didn’t think the virus was serious. It is no longer any concern for him as he has no more concerns at all.

[Emile]

13. They think Bill Gates is trying to exterminate them through

the vaccine. Stupidity is alive and well!

[Maru Kitteh]

14. Well in this case, less stupidity is alive and even fewer are well.

[FakeNoose]

15. I hope your brother and family are vaccinated?

Yes I have the same smallpox vaccination scar on my upper arm that you have. Almost all of us received our shots as babies, because that's what the doctors did then. That's what the parents did too, they made sure their kids got shots against measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, smallpox, etc. In school we got the polio vaccine, and I think we drank it in a cup. Nobody asked us, they just vaccinated us and we all did just fine.

[Jon King]

16. 3100 died Thursday, 2800 yesterday....

According to Covidworldmeter. The sheer amount of effort this has taken from the right wing to have that number still dying over a year after a free and readily available became available is mind boggling.

Now if we could convince right wingers that Dems hated the environment and high tech education, we could harness their unstoppable energy into becoming the cleanest country with the best educated kids in the world.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. In the early months of 2021, when the vaccine was harder to get,

I had a lot of sympathy for those who got Covid and died then. But the shortage is long, long over, and I likewise have zero sympathy for the unvaccinated. I have contempt for those who believe the bullshit lies about the vaccine.