My opinion - Anti-vaxxers who weren't alive when polio was rampant should STFU about vaccines

[The Conductor]

92. Every So Often

Tell a MAGAt that the Earth is 93 million miles from the Sun and they look at you blankly, because the sun doesn't seem that far away to them. Tell them that vaccines cure disease, and suddenly they are experts, having "done their own research." Well, so have I. One little bit of research we share is that distinctive scar, most often on the left arm, that was the result of getting a smallpox vaccination when we were infants. To the point that no infant born in the U.S. in this millennium has the scar, because smallpox was wiped out across the entire human population. In the winter of 1924, a smallpox outbreak in Minneapolis alone killed 360 people.

The only good news is that the anti-vax crap seems heavily centered on the Rethuglican gang, and so they will likely follow the precedent of COVID where people in Trump voting counties were twice as likely to die of COVID than those in counties that voted for Biden, on average. Maybe they should learn the lesson of the Shakers, who banned sex because they thought it was "unclean." That has long-term consequences; having more people die than are born. Last I checked, back in 2019, the last Shaker village in America was Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine. At last check, they had a population of just three left. And they aren't reproducing.