Anti-Vaxxer Mother And Daughter Die From Covid

[naomi24]

//An anti-vaxxer mother and her daughter died just days apart in a Belfast hospital after they contracted Covid-19, leaving their family “devastated”.

The BBC reported that Sammie-Jo Forde, 32, died in the Ulster hospital on Saturday, where she had been treated on the same ward as her mother, Heather Maddern, 55, who died on 31 August.//

What a waste of life.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/16/anti-vaxxer-mother-and-daughter-die-from-covid-in-northern-ireland-hospital

[naomi24]

Facebook and the rest of social media has a lot to answer for - but ultimately no one can hold any of it responsible for their own stupidity.

[Gromit]

Talking of astounding leaps…

Anti-vaxxers = The great unwashed.

[Gromit]

Naomi24

People make their decisions based on information they are exposed to. If they are one of Nicki Minaj‘s 23 Million followers, and she sends out ant-vaxxing advice, then some people will be duped.
Social media should show more leadership in stamping out misinformation. But 23 million followers will make the star and FaceBook lots of money, so they ignore the dangerous messages.

[Bobbisox1]

Gromit I say this with tongue in cheek as most people who kick against the system and stop traffic and target schools with their ideals ,are pretty much uniformed in their appearance , they need a cause in their lives to fight for, not all, I admit

[Gromit]

The Great Unwashed

// Definition: The working class
This expression is pejorative and refers to people who do not have much money, or who lack a formal education. It can also be used in a more open sense to mean the general public. //

The examples of anti-vaxxer brigade that I have seen are not poor woking class illiterates.

[Bobbisox1]

Okay, whateva treva
But let’s not detract from the OP eh? :0))

[naomi24]

Gromit, I’m reluctant to say anyone should ‘stamp out misinformation’. That’s the slippery slope to the thought control of the Ministry of Truth.

[New Judge]

//That’s the slippery slope to the thought control of the Ministry of Truth.//

Absolutely spot on. Individuals have a responsibility to sort out the wheat from the chaff. They must be circumspect when reading material upon which they rely to make decisions, particularly when it is written by social media "influencers" and the like. In fact I'd go much further than that. I make no secret of the fact that I disbelieve just about anything any politician tells me. In the majority of instances I am quite wise to do so and I can live with the small number of occasions where I'm not.

"Stamping out misinformation" means that somebody has to decide what falls into that category and what does not. Since, by and large, I only trust myself to do that, I would be unable to take the personal responsibility that I believe is necessary. Yes it's quite true that some people are not so well equipped as others in that task. But that's not my fault and I don't see why the information that is available to me should be censored, possibly to my detriment.

[ToraToraTora]

It always makes me laugh when these are the same people who tell us every day that our governments can't organise a peace up in a brewery but they can manage a clandestine Pan global method to a control us all! PMSL!