We Don't Need No Vaccination

Have you noticed the recent plethora of stories about the deaths of anti-vaxxers from Covid? It's a shame some people have an almost religious fervour about something they know practically zero about.

To all anti-vaxxers - should we listen to the science? Yes, 100% yes! What research is an anti-vaxxer with no qualifications going to do that is will be in any way superior to, or more valuable than, research conducted by universities and government agencies that spend billions a year studying diseases? 

Do they honestly think their Google and YouTube skills are worth more than the billions a year of  research by scientists specialising in that field? You listen to the scientists and statisticians (risk managers) when they say how to handle a pandemic. End of. 

Anti-vaxxer research skills are so pitiful that a bunch of them turned up in the wrong place to protest, thinking they were outside the BBC. I'm sick of them saying they've done their research - where is their data, which laboratories did they use, are their papers (if they produced any - which I doubt) peer-reviewed? Their 'research comprises nothing more than seeking out conspiracy theories on YouTube, spurious nutter blogs and articles by shady think-tanks who refuse to disclose the source of their funding.

Nothing good has come from the far right or the far left - both are comprised of idiots. However, the B word (Brexit) does seem to have a high correlation with anti-vaxxers. They comprise only a small cadre within the B group, but none of them are centrist and sane. In America they're predominantly on the right of the political divide, where one's personal rights seem more important than the responsibilities that go with those rights.

Fine - don't have a vaccine, but the absolute minimum they should put a bloody mask on. It's literally easier for them to put a mask on than to have this argument. That's how easy it is; it's the easiest thing in the world. They need to stop being petulant children and do the easiest thing in the world to help people not die.