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The triage experts of r/politics begin their circlejerk about letting horse medicine people die but one free thinker brings up an interesting point.

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/phjs25/opinion_doctors_should_be_allowed_to_give/hbjawvv?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

OP comment:

Triage should prioritize children and the vaccinated. I don’t believe medical resources should be wasted on people who have made a commitment to ignore science, but rely on science, reject medicine but imbibe chemicals. It is beyond foolish and is now truly dangerous.

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I feel the same way about the obese, chronic drinkers and smokers as well. They did it to themselves.

Nooo not like that:

There’s a distinction to be made about being addicted to addictive substances and being unwilling to take easy actions to prevent yourself from getting ill.

Often obese, alcoholics, and smokers get addicted when they’re children (before 18) and it carries on through adulthood.

There’s also the fact that obese, smokers, and alcoholics aren’t advocating that others join them as their lifestyle is actually the healthier one.

Ya'll know what to do.

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Anti-vaxxers are a much larger threat to most of the world than anything you just listed.

Even small anti-vaccine campaigns have managed to kill 40+ children. The real number globally is probably much higher as they've learned they can target poor countries and the population will be more willing to ignore vaccines completly.

Do not try to downplay what anti-vaxxers are.

And the anti-vaccine movement is not simply after the covid vaccine, they're using covid to convert people to full on anti-vaxxers period, they literally have meetings discussing this:

https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DCF/Agency/JIC-Resources/The_Anti-Vaxx_Playbook.pdf

Anti-vaxxers were on life support before covid, they're now stronger than they ever were.

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even small anti-vaccine campaigns have managed to kill 40+ children

What’s the source in this and how do you prove it was the anti vaccine campaign that killed them?

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Do you live under a rock?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/measles-outbreak-spurred-by-anti-vaxxers-shuts-down-samoan-government/

A nurse made a mistake and killed a kid. The anti-vaxxers then pounced and over 70 people have died.

The king anti-vaxxer shill himself showed up there:

Still, news of the heartbreaking deaths shook the island nation’s confidence in the healthcare system. And anti-vaccination groups pounced on the circumstances. Most notably, the deaths were picked up by the Children’s Health Defense, run by the prominent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As The Washington Post noted, Kennedy’s organization spent months highlighting the deaths on Facebook while questioning the safety of the MMR vaccines. But the organization did not correct the posts or update its audience with information regarding the nurses’ error and convictions.

Kennedy visited Samoa in June, appearing alongside local anti-vaccine advocates and even a staff member of the US embassy. In November, Kennedy’s organization sent a letter to the Samoan prime minister, encouraging officials to question the MMR vaccine. Kennedy peddles the false and dangerous claim that vaccines are linked to autism, despite the fact that numerous scientific studies have robustly debunked the baseless claim.

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I don’t see any proof that the anti vaccine campaign caused those deaths.

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Ok dude.

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If there was proof, you would have quoted it. Instead you quoted about how the anti vaccine campaign started.

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I'm not entertaining your mental illness.

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So there is no proof? You just made that up? And I’m the mentally ill one?

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Not entertaining your blatant mental illness.

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And, furthermore, why was this actually a good thing?

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Lol im not reading that

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