Anti-Gay Anti-vaxxer Christians: An ongoing opportunity for Gays & Atheists to fight back. (3rd in a series)
As long as anti-Gay Christians are anti-vax we have an ongoing significant advantage over them which we can exploit.
This is going to be on ongoing issue with anti-Gay Christians and we need to take advantage of this opportunity.
The opposition against vaccines by anti-Gay Christians appears to be that it is going to continue for a long time into the future with disastrous consequences to them.
Zimbabwe Christian anti-vaxxers and the mounting death toll.
This Sept. 3, 2022 article talks about a death toll that is almost 700 people due to measles. (Note, the Europeans have a different notation for dates, it is date, month, year.) Exact count reported was 698.
Buried in the article is that the outbreak is occurring because of opposition by religious groups to vaccination.
The death toll has climbed fairly fast. This DW article of 8/16/2022 reports more than 150 children dead. The article reports that the number of deaths “has doubled in four days.”
https://www.dw.com/en/zimbabwe-measles-outbreak-leaves-more-than-150-children-dead/a-62829593
The exact count was 157 in this article dated 8/15/2022 and the 9/3/2022 DW article reports 698 deaths. In about two weeks the death toll has more than quadrupled despite a major vaccination campaign.
The fact that the problem is anti-vaxxer Christians, in most of the current reporting, is not in the headline, but somewhere in the article.
This Oct. 13, 2021 article has the problem of anti-vax Christians in the headlines. “‘It’s not Satanism’: Zimbabwe church leaders preach vaccines.” Below is the link.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/zimbabwe-covid-satanism-african-christian-b1937478.html
Some religious leaders are trying to convince their followers to get vaccinated and not believe in anti-vaxxer Christianity espoused by other religious leaders.
Disease outbreaks cause by anti-vaxxer Christians is likely to be an ongoing issue.
There is developing opposition to vaccine requirements for students going to school.
https://khn.org/news/article/anti-vaccine-state-lawmakers-gain-ground-childhood-shots/
Measles and other disease outbreaks are NOT just going to be in Zimbabwe.
There was this measles outbreak at Disneyland, Dec. 2014 to Feb. 2015 necessitating it being shutdown for cleaning.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6406a5.htm
http://infectiousdiseases.edc.org/content/article/measles
It seems that for any disease there is an anti-vaxxer contingent ready to oppose vaccination for that disease. This article is about the developing anti-vaxxer opposition to monkeypox vaccines.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vazy/anti-vaxxers-vow-not-to-protect-themselves-from-monkeypox
We have an outbreak of polio now.
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/is-polio-making-a-comeback/
Below is a link to a Bloomberg article, “Why Polio, Once Nearly Eradicated, Is Rebounding.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-02/why-polio-once-nearly-eradicated-is-rebounding-quicktake#xj4y7vzkg The answer is the anti-vaxxers.
As the rate of vaccination falls there will be more outbreaks for things that for decades weren’t an issue.
The next pandemic. There will be one.
There are other diseases out there. As this Foreign Policy article points out the next pandemic might be a plane flight away.
This is an article in Nature magazine, one of the two most authoritative magazines in the English-speaking world on the lack of preparedness to prevent or respond to the next pandemic.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01918-9
This page shows there are a lot of possibilities out there for the next pandemic.
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/tag/next-pandemic
It turns out that Moderna is making a lot of mRNA vaccines for deadly diseases, starting out with 15 of them.
So, we will be safe if we can get a vaccination.
Action plan for Gay atheists
First the basics
1. Be vaccinated: When the pandemic comes you should already be vaccinated for all the currently available vaccines and any vaccine that are developed. Given that we have increasing anti-vaxxer sentiment, you might want to not depend on that vaccination you go when you were a child 20, 30 or 40 years ago.
It sets an example for other Gays to get vaccinated and you are protecting yourself and the health of the community. There is the off chance you could get two viruses at the same time and probably the outcome isn’t good.
2. Get vaccinated when there is a pandemic. getting vaccinated again set an example. It has the added bonus that you reduce your risk of dropping dead.
3. Get vaccinated in a hurry: Don’t waste time, get vaccinated as soon as possible. Even with Covid in Texas we had to wait, and there were opportunities to jump the line when a hospital would have extras they had to use up and opened up vaccinations for everyone.
Consider that the death toll was 1% on average for Covid. This meant that a lot of anti-vaxxers have continued their anti-vaccination nonsense even to the present day (9/7/2022).
The fatality rate for Marburg is 90%. Suppose some disease, not necessarily Marburg or Ebola, shows up and the fatality rate is 20%. When the members of the First Hysterical Baptist Church start dropping dead all over the place and more importantly, they can’t tithe, they are going to be suddenly having some revelation, and the pastor will urge them with a sermon, and they are going to rush off to get vaccinated.
You want to be already vaccinated or ahead of them in the vaccination line before they wise up. Further if Gays having been vaccinated or signed up for vaccination means the anti-vax Christians are further down the line waiting for vaccination and they have a risk that they will get the pandemic virus before they get the vaccination.
Further, when they get the pandemic vaccine, they might wise up enough to decide to get all the vaccines they should have. There could be a shortage of the usual vaccines. If you are generally vaccinated already, you won’t be affected by the shortage.
4. Follow pandemic safety. You set an example for other Gays. The anti-vaxxer Christians during the Covid pandemic were anti-mask and against pandemic safety. Being that they are also against vaccination, they were really making themselves subject to the risk of getting Covid. They refused to get vaccinated, but they also engaged in activities greatly increasing their risk of getting Covid.
5. Make sure you have pandemic supplies: During the initial phases of Covid it was hard to get alcohol, peroxide, bleach cleaners, Lysol, face masks, and gloves. You don’t have to have a huge supply, but somewhere you need a box with supplies. Also, you should have a basic First Aid Kit. The local health system might be overwhelmed, and you should have one anyways.
Advanced
1. All cases of an outbreak or pandemic caused by anti-vaxxer Christians needs to be widely shared on online social platforms. This is an easy thing to do. Letting people know about delusional anti-vax anti-Gay Christians reported on the
https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
website gets a strong response. There are likely other opportunities to look at.
2. Consider referring to their theology as covid theology, or in Zimbabwe I suppose you can call it measles theology.
3. Push the rate of vaccination of Gays to as close to 100% as possible. Every percentage point we drive increases our advantages. I have a meme for this at the very end of the newsletter after the subscribe button. Do this by two things:
(1) Point out that a Gay anti-vaxxer is an STD disease risk and is likely to not have gotten vaccinated for hepatitis A &B, monkeypox, or HPV or other STD vaccines.
(2) Be very vocal and clear that the LGBT position is pro-vaccine to apply peer pressure for Gays to get vaccinated. If that drives some anti-Gay Christians to be anti-vaccine, it isn’t our problem, we are not accountable for their hysterical homophobia or the irresponsible thinking of others.
4. Support vaccine research. We won’t have an advantage over anti-vax anti-Gay Christians if there isn’t a vaccine.
5. Support having vaccine stockpiles. If there aren’t vaccines for pro-vax people there is again not advantage for Gays over anti-vax anti-Gay Christians. The current debacle regarding the shortage of monkeypox vaccines must not repeat with the next virus pandemic.
6. Support mandatory vaccination: This does two things. One, we can’t be accused of discouraging vaccination. Two, if some anti-vax anti-Gay Christian loses their position in the government or private business, they have less influence and less opportunity to hurt us through discrimination.
Unethical things NOT to do.
1. You must NOT discourage vaccination. Despite all the facts and the record of anti-vax activity, likely the anti-Gay Christians will want to make it our fault. It might seem completely reasonable, but the anti-Gay Christians don’t seem to use cognitive processes that you could called “reason.” Plus, they would use it as a justification to attack Gays in general while posing as the victim like they usually do. Also, it is absolutely unnecessary, they seem to be really committed to being anti-vax all on their own.
Summary
1. This is going to be an ongoing issue and opportunity for Gays. It doesn’t have to be a pandemic caused by a new disease. Anti-vax Christians are causing a huge measles outbreak in Zimbabwe with a death toll having reached 700. There is an ongoing fight against school vaccinations. There currently is a polio outbreak in the United States. Disneyland had an outbreak in Dec. 2014 to 2015.
2. We can demolish the credibility of anti-Gay Christians with by publicizing their anti-vax views and their refusal to follow pandemic safety. In Korea, anti-vax Christian really negatively impacted the public view of them, as reported in the 2nd installment of this series. (Links to installments 1 and 2 below.)
3. If we make sure we are vaccinated, follow pandemic safety, and are prepared for the next pandemic, we can watch the anti-vax anti-Gay Christians continue to destroy themselves with Covid, measles or other diseases. We must make sure that we are absolutely not considered as having encouraged their self-destruction.
Earlier installments on vaccines.