Anti-vaxxers are now a modern political force

[LetMyPeopleVote]

These nutcase groups are scary

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/anti-vaxxers-political-power-00116527

For years, groups at the vanguard of the anti-vaccine movement had been operating with relatively small budgets and only a handful of staff.

Now, they’re awash in cash.

The Covid-19 pandemic has produced a remarkable financial windfall for anti-vaccine nonprofits. Revenue more than doubled for the Informed Consent Action Network and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense in 2021 compared to the year prior, according to a POLITICO analysis of tax filings. The nonprofits that survived on operating budgets of around a few million dollars just a few years prior are now raking in more than $10 million each.

“Covid vaccines have been the foot in the door for the more general anti-vaccine movement. And unfortunately, that door is open pretty wide now,” said Dr. Dave Gorski, a Michigan-based oncologist who has been tracking anti-vaccine efforts for two decades.

The funding spike reflects a sea change for once-fringe entities. The anti-vaccine movement has now emerged as a modern political force. In practical terms, greater funds enable anti-vaccine groups to expand their public reach, sue federal agencies and organize like-minded activists at the state level, as well as expand their reach abroad.

[randr]

1. And many of them will be remembered in history only as a statistic confirming science

[Tree Lady]

2. All we can hope for is that republicans

who don't like Trump vote for him not anti vaxer dems.

What we don't need is Trump to win via a third party, republican donors are helping him.

[NowISeetheLight]

3. Have Fun

They should be banned from ANY vaccine then. Have fun with your kid having polio axxholes. Oh.. and no "socialized medicine" either, so no SSI or Medicaid help to pay for their care. IDIOTS!!!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. I agree

Link to tweet

[mike_c]

5. witch and vampire hunters cannot be far behind

Sheesh. How did education fail those people so badly?

[Quixote1818]

6. Next big pandemic is going to be a disaster and a lot of idiots will die. nt

[chowder66]

7. Great. Tea Party with Cooties.

[bigtree]

8. so was the tea party

...people are sanguine now when the threat isn't as visible or prevalent.

We all remember how everyone was looking for protection and salvation when the trucks full of bodies were stacking up outside hospitals.

The day the tea party died
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/23/politics/debt-deal-budget-ceiling/index.html

[AntivaxHunters]

9. Fuck them

[Pinback]

10. "Don't mistake inconvenience for oppression."

[Chakaconcarne]

11. You mean political farce...

if they want to kill off the gop voter base...who's to stop them?

[Johonny]

12. Killing your voter base seems like a bad political

Strategy, but fuck 'em.

[DET]

13. I Never Understood...

…why these idiots were allowed to ruin sane people’s lives during the pandemic. Sick people couldn’t get care because the hospital beds were infested with these loons who brought on their own misery. How vaccinations and masks became a rallying cry for ‘FREEDOM!’ is beyond me. At a minimum, these people should have been forced to pay their own medical bills for their stupidity instead of sticking us with the costs for their insane idea of freedom.

I’ll never forget that my husband was being treated for stage four cancer at the beginning of the pandemic at a hospital whose entrance and waiting room were directly adjacent to the entrance to the emergency room where the Covid patients were brought in. I was sure he was going to get the virus. Amazingly, to this day, neither he nor I have had Covid.

[dalton99a]

14. They want children to suffer and die.

[DemocraticPatriot]

15. I WANT to be exposed to polio, measles and smallpox, FFS

because 'I am a Republican'....


ah, let em. The only good Republican is a DEAD Republican---
but if nature can provide that result without the rest of us
violating our morals--- so much the better!

They all belong on the 'Darwin list' if they are too stupid to protect their own health....