Plenty of people not vaccinating that are not republicans...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/u...americans.html
A lot of self-righteous judgement in this thread. Having lived in the south for a time I'm always saddened by the way people think it's ok to look down on others who live and believe differently than they do. If I was as dedicated to making northerners or democrats look stupid I'm sure I could give you example after example as well.
Everyone makes varying degrees of bad judgements about different things based on their values. Everyone. Most of us make at least one stupid choice a month that could get us killed--many of them much more dangerous than not getting vaccinated. The American left propaganda machine has been running on full steam for awhile spreading hatred and intolerance for people who don't fall in line with their version of "right-think". Talk to some southerners, get to know republicans. They represent real people, many of them living quite amazing lives most of us couldn't survive in, not just "ha ha stupid rednecks". This is the same mentality embedded in anti-black/jewish/insert minority here. If you're talking about "dumb southerners" or "dumb republicans", you are just as prejudiced as if you said "dumb africans" "dumb indians" etc, you've just chosen a different criteria for your prejudice.
Not trying to call anyone out, it's a very popular way of thinking, but it doesn't bring any happiness, it won't change anyone's behavior, and prejudices like this certainly don't bring about a more peaceful or joyful world. Just some food for thought. Happy Sunday.
Divide to conquer, the same applies to many countries. Like in the UK with North/South divide, France with Paris and the rest of the plebs in the province. The bi-party system is simply stupid but it's been nailed down in people's mind via the Hollywood propaganda machine. You always have the good good guy fighting the bad bad guy. In comparison European movies are more subtle.
The thing is, half of the population has an IQ below 90-80, which is barely enough to think critically. The retarded things I hear in my family about the virus, it's like they all have a phd in virology.
In the end tools like Facebook and Twitter are the catalyst of misinformation and should be regulated. But no you can't touch the FAANG!
And another far-right anti-vaxxer media personality has died from Covid:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...covid-n1276304