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What are your specific fears about it hitting an antivax community? It’s not like they have any ad- or disadvantage compared to the rest of the population wrt.
by robbiep 7y ago
What are your specific fears about it hitting an antivax community? It’s not like they have any ad- or disadvantage compared to the rest of the population wrt. Immunity at the current time
- anigbrowl 7y agoEven if they have no direct medical vulnerabilities, anti-vaxxers are prone to rejecting or subverting public health recommendations, eg voluntarily bringing their kids to measles parties to 'get it over with'. As recently as 2 days ago Rush Limbaugh (a conservative talk radio host) was saying that Covid-19 is essentially just the common cold and the health scare was misplaced.
- robbiep 7y agoThere are a lot of other groups this applies to. For example, the current Korean outbreak was started by a religious member who refused to be quarantined. The US’s response is being lead by someone that doesn’t believe in science. If you want to get worried about something, there are a lot of other places to start