It may be a window into how our world ends. Death by right-wing conspiracy meme. Rates of vaccinations of measles and polio and other deadly afflictions have been falling in the U.S. since COVID, a result of misinformation surrounding that vaccination campaign. In some areas of the U.S., rates of some vaccinations are for the first time in years falling under the 95% threshold for group efficacy. Darwin will sort out the offenders and, unfortunately, their children. The problem is the rest of who can actually use our brains will go down with them, victims of more right-wing, hair-on-fire nonsense. It used to be that even the most ignorant among us understood that we are all in this together. That is no longer true.
— Allen Jorgenson, Willow
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