The Death Cult

While there has always been an anti-vaccination fringe, ever since there was such a thing as vaccination (and no, I'm not sure why) the Republican party and conservatives have never as a class been hostile to the vaccine mandates that have been in place in every state for decades. Until now. 

 

The ginned up hysteria about Covid-19 vaccine, based on batshit insane conspiracy theories about microchips and alterations to DNA and lizard people, was just one more manufactured outrage to stir up the MAGAts, like Critical Race Theory, the castration of Mr. Potatohead, and of course the Big Steal, better known as the Big Lie.

But the logic of it now compels them to oppose all vaccine mandates. Georgia schoolchildren are required to be immunized against diphtheria, hepatitis B, polio, mumps, measles, rubella, and chickenpox. The Georgia bill, which has 17 co-sponsors, would eliminate all of these. 

The most astonishing achievement of the 20th Century, the biggest news story of all time, is this: prior to the 20th Century, about 40% of all children in the United States died. That's right. Today, the death of a child is an unendurable tragedy, but for all of human history until very recently, it was absolutely commonplace, affecting almost every family. Clean water, pasteurized milk, and antibiotics all have a lot to do with the 20th Century miracle, but so do vaccines. 

In the name of a grotesque caricature of freedom, these evil people want to murder your children.  Human life begins at conception, and ends at birth.