Antivaccine Legislation Is Rising Rapidly in US States, Driven Primarily by GOP Push

1145 points by The_Weekend_Baker a day ago on reddit | 67 comments

Kahnza | a day ago

That's because they're trying to thin out the poor people population

banzaizach | a day ago

Bold strategy to kill off your voters

NosillaWilla | a day ago

they think elections won't be a problem for them in the future

thenikolaka | a day ago

They have said so numerous times. Trump said they won’t lose an election for 100 years. Anyone who thinks they aren’t sabotaging the legitimacy isn’t thinking clearly.

MikBright | 20 hours ago

They're gonna try, but the thing is that they failed to get anything in time. The SAVE act, even if they manage to pass it now, is way too late to implement. They burnt all bridges with Musk and Russia. Israel/AIPAC has shown that they're pathetic bastards and no one likes them. All they have left is intimidation, which is failing because they've shown themselves to be crybaby losers. Even billionaires are already planning to run when the GOP lose power.

It doesn't matter though, if you don't like all this stupidity, you better show up and vote.

thenikolaka | 18 hours ago

They could pass it late and commission part of ICE to be Election Enforcement. That fits into the greater plan.

sureprisim | 6 hours ago

In theory if a state wanted to they could ban federal agents from the elections sites as they are run by the state. Federal law prohibits federal agents from interfering in state and local elections. Local law enforcement could even arrest the ice agents legally.

That’s all said, the governors of each state would have to make a choice… sigh.

redroserequiems | a day ago

Because they want network states and kings.

SmokedAlex | 22 hours ago

Voters don’t matter anymore haha

No-Blueberry-1823 | 21 hours ago

Yeah this is what I'm thinking

MentalDisintegrat1on | 14 hours ago

Yeah that logic doesn't track but it's on par with the GOP they don't think far ahead.

Fun fact covid overwhelmingly killed more Republicans and effected red states more than any other groups.

MisterSanitation | 21 hours ago

There is a strange connection between right wing groups and pseudoscience holistic “cures”. Nazis were all about it too. They participate in the idiocy often so not sure why it always shows up right when salutes start popping up.

aeschenkarnos | 17 hours ago

A big part of being a right-winger is rejecting reality in favour of a fantasy world, and not a cool fantasy world with elves and dragons, a shitty one in which white people are genetically superior somehow, and rich people earned and deserve their wealth, and scientists are stupid actually, and there really is a god (who we stole off the Jews but he’s ours now and he loves us so we’re not giving him back) who is in charge of everything and his plan for us is that we should do exactly what we wanted to do anyway.

00-quanta- | a day ago

Alternative method for the Purge

AnalyticalAlpaca | 22 hours ago

I actually don’t think there’s a conspiracy. They’re just stupid.

karmanman | 14 hours ago

Whether or not that's true, we can not underestimate the effects of their actions.

Bumble_beeFormal | 22 hours ago

Also the sick and the disabled

maywander47 | 20 hours ago

"poor" includes formerly middle class.

FeffyFefernuson | a day ago

I wonder if Republican voters who fall for this crap realize it's just more culture war nonsense. I guarantee you that every Republican politician and every member of their familes are fully vaccinated. RFK Jr. is also fully vaccinated as are his children. All the media pundits who spout anti vaccine rhetoric are also fully vaccinated.

Only the truly stupid in this country avoid vaccines.

BFroog | a day ago

Which is juuuust about 49%. So good luck to all of us.

lunartree | 22 hours ago

More like a third, the others are stupid because they won't vote.

LingonberryHot8521 | a day ago

They don't understand culture war as anything other than something they want to win because it makes liberals cry and they like violence anyway.

0AJ0_ | a day ago

The Republican Party must be destroyed and abolished.

Apprehensive_Error36 | a day ago

It’s a good way to weaken the American populace. Good job GOP.

iamthefluffyyeti | a day ago

The GOP is anti American so it fits

Wayelder | a day ago

As a Canuck, I cannot think of a thing (that isn't just racist), that the GOP has done to benefit Average Americans?

Xannith | a day ago

I'm an American who has been watching closely for 20 years. They haven't.

Wayelder | 18 hours ago

Im so sad this is happening.

bron685 | a day ago

I don’t understand why birth-rate and business obsessed people are against the things that keep the workforce and consumers healthy and alive. I can’t tell if this push is adversary-influenced or if this is just red meat for the base since they don’t have abortion to run on anymore

LingonberryHot8521 | 23 hours ago

A poor and desperate populace makes for a compliant workforce. That's it.

You can make them believe almost anything. You can make them turn on each other for almost anything. And you can then exploit them.

Present-Fly4422 | 23 hours ago

I swear.  Is there any way republicans aren’t shitty?

ProximaCentauriB15 | a day ago

They're trying to kill people. This plus dismantling basically all food safety stuff makes it obvious. We will be left to kill each other the next time we have a pandemic/plague.

holamau | 19 hours ago

“Pro-Life”

Fuck these assholes.

Impossible-Falcon-62 | 14 hours ago

They never said anything about Quality Of Life

Ambitious-Pirate-505 | a day ago

God forbid they focus on things that matter

miklayn | a day ago

These people want you to die as soon as possible. Their policies are a threat against our lives and liberties.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, ***Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.*** Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ***But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.***"

YournuStepdad | a day ago

The people pushing the legislation will still vaccinate their kids. They are trying to kill the poor.

thegooddoktorjones | a day ago

Nothing is too stupid or backwards for Republicans

Known_Attorney_456 | 23 hours ago

I wonder when polio will rear its ugly head.

Jessintheend | 23 hours ago

Meanwhile Florida is having a leprosy outbreak

Wonderful-Ad440 | 23 hours ago

On my feed the post directly above this one is how the US's Measles outbreak is at a 35 year high and has already topped 2025's numbers. So, well, there ya go.

moosejaw296 | 20 hours ago

Anyone against vaccines is an uneducated fool

Cbona | 18 hours ago

Just a reminder that the average life expectancy of a human being born in any particular year increased by roughly 5 years between 10,000BC and roughly the mid to late 1800s.
It didn’t explode to today’s numbers until break throughs in sanitation, the acceptance of the germ theory of disease, and vaccinations took hold.

LaSage | 21 hours ago

This Administration is attempting to undermine the health of Americans. This Administration is not working on behalf of the US. Imagine putting a foreign adversary in charge of America. That is what we are dealing with.

DiscoRabbittTV | 23 hours ago

This is another way Republicans torturously kill people

GOP dark ages

baronesslucy | 22 hours ago

When I was a kid back in the day there was virtually no government officials or those in the state and local government who were opposed to vaccines. None and it's been that way for decades until fairly recently.. In the schools that I attended nearly everyone was vaccinated. A handful of people weren't due to religious exemptions and you had one or two medical exemptions. As many people have stated, these individuals were vaccinated as children and vaccinated their children.

Sudi_Nim | 21 hours ago

We need a vaccine against the plague that is the GOP.

trash-juice | 21 hours ago

Republicans - killing off America, the vote wont matter if we’re all dead

physicistdeluxe | 18 hours ago

very, very strange

dorkyitguy | 18 hours ago

Do whatever you want. I’ll be waiting to say I told you so.

videohtape | 22 hours ago

Let's reinvigorate the Iron Lung manufacturing sector that was once a huge industry right here in the U.S.of A. Bringin' back American jobs. /s

iamthefluffyyeti | a day ago

Primarily? 100%

Kastikar | 21 hours ago

Speed running another plague.

Charming-Dish5120 | 14 hours ago

just start working on removing them from office, how much more of a push do people need?!

SimkinCA | 14 hours ago

It’s a foreign op, just so happens the Treasonous Republican cabal have been working for foreign hostile interests for at least a decade.

ebfortin | 10 hours ago

What's the worst that could happen anyway, explosive diarrhea ?

New-Clock-3795 | a day ago

This tracks with what we’ve seen post-Covid. A lot of the bills aren’t outright bans, they’re about exemptions, mandate and school requirements. Still, epidemiology data is pretty clear that higher exemptions rates correlate with outbreaks. Would be curious to see how many of these actually pass vs just get introduced

amvad555 | a day ago

Ground Zero for the zombie apocalypse.

TherapeuticPsycho | 22 hours ago

Hey, that translates to less stupid people. Fine.

costafilh0 | a day ago

The term "anti-vaccine" refers to direct opposition to vaccines.

Reducing access, relaxing requirements, or expanding exemptions is not anti-vaccine.

And it doesn't matter if they use this to fuel a narrative.

The fact is, it doesn't help their cause, it only generates more polarization and misinformation.

Agnostros | a day ago

Reducing the number of people who get vaccines, actively and deliberately, 100% is anti-vaccine.

If you apply that to anything else it works, so it works here.

Wayelder | a day ago

that last line...is not an accident. Polarization and misinformation are goals for enemies of America.

but then, now...I think that's all you got. You've chased away all allies.

MudkipMonado | 21 hours ago

All of those things are anti-vaccine. Reducing access means less vaccines are used, in opposition to vaccination. Relaxing requirements means less people get vaccinated overall, in opposition to vaccination. Expanding exemptions means less herd immunity, in opposition to vaccination.