Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

The Off-Topic forum for anything non-LDS related, such as sports or politics. Rated PG through PG-13.
Brookside
Nursery
Posts: 17
Joined: Sun Dec 26, 2021 8:23 am

Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

Post by Brookside »

https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
The purpose of this site is educational, except for a few exceptions, everyone listed on this site was/is an anti-vaxxer activist who helped spread COVID-19 misinformation on social media. Share to stop others from making the same mistake. GET VACCINATED! https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
Gunnar
God
Posts: 2338
Joined: Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:32 pm
Location: California

Re: Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

Post by Gunnar »

Brookside wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:00 am
https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
The purpose of this site is educational, except for a few exceptions, everyone listed on this site was/is an anti-vaxxer activist who helped spread COVID-19 misinformation on social media. Share to stop others from making the same mistake. GET VACCINATED! https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
Requested URL not found.

This is one site that works: Anti-Vax Radio Hosts Keep Dying From COVID
But only the first viewing of it is free.
Last edited by Gunnar on Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:16 am, edited 1 time in total.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
drumdude
God
Posts: 5213
Joined: Thu Oct 29, 2020 5:29 am

Re: Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

Post by drumdude »

Looks just like a revenge porn website. Let's dox a bunch of people!

They're dead, so it's ok right? How about a website that lists all the women that have had an abortion?
Gunnar
God
Posts: 2338
Joined: Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:32 pm
Location: California

Re: Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

Post by Gunnar »

At Least 7 Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Mask Conservative Activists Have Died of COVID-19 in Recent Weeks
Sadly, this evidence doesn't faze most anti-vaxxers. It only causes some of them to generate ever more extreme conspiracy theories and plots. I read of at least one Q-anon group threatening to murder doctors who failed to save the lives of anti-vaxxers who were under their care at the time they died of covid, accusing them of deliberate murder in order to permanently silence the anti-vaxxer skeptics.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
Chap
God
Posts: 2308
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:42 am
Location: On the imaginary axis

Re: Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

Post by Chap »

drumdude wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:13 am
Looks just like a revenge porn website. Let's dox a bunch of people!

They're dead, so it's ok right? How about a website that lists all the women that have had an abortion?
Not really. Women who have had an abortion are not advocating that others should refrain from taking measures that would greatly reduce the risk of serious (possibly long-term disabling) illness or death on the part of the people they are trying to persuade.

Antivax promoters are doing just that. When they get ill and die after following their own misleading advice,It is appropriate to publicise that fact, since so doing may may dissuade others from following their advice.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Mayan Elephant:
Not only have I denounced the Big Lie, I have denounced the Big lie big lie.
drumdude
God
Posts: 5213
Joined: Thu Oct 29, 2020 5:29 am

Re: Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

Post by drumdude »

Chap wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:04 am
since so doing may may dissuade others from following their advice.
Yeah, it's equally as likely to do exactly the opposite.

It would be like posting photos of what rape victims were wearing to make women wear something different. The problem is the rapists. The problem is COVID disinformation. Don't blame the victims.
User avatar
MeDotOrg
2nd Quorum of 70
Posts: 686
Joined: Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:55 pm
Location: San Francisco

Re: Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

Post by MeDotOrg »

You want to communicate to Anti-Vaxxers that their position is not based in fact about the dangers of vaccines. Here are 2 strategies:
  • Mock them and tell them how stupid they are.
  • Explain how the tragedy has happened because of false information.
After 2 years of pandemic, most people feel frustration that Covid is being aided and abetted by anti-vaxxers. I get it. But the object should be to change behavior. Mocking people makes them feel defensive and angry. It's counter-productive.
The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization.
- Will Durant
"Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist."
- Edwin Land
K Graham
God
Posts: 1676
Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2021 6:25 am

Re: Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

Post by K Graham »

How is it mocking them?

These people made themselves public figures. They loved the attention they got from helping COVID kill more people. Why should attention on them disappear after COVID kills them too?
"I am not an American ... In my view premarital sex should be illegal" - Ajax18
Chap
God
Posts: 2308
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:42 am
Location: On the imaginary axis

Re: Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

Post by Chap »

Chap wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:04 am
drumdude wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:13 am
Looks just like a revenge porn website. Let's dox a bunch of people!

They're dead, so it's ok right? How about a website that lists all the women that have had an abortion?
Not really. Women who have had an abortion are not advocating that others should refrain from taking measures that would greatly reduce the risk of serious (possibly long-term disabling) illness or death on the part of the people they are trying to persuade.

Antivax promoters are doing just that. When they get ill and die after following their own misleading advice,It is appropriate to publicise that fact, since so doing may may dissuade others from following their advice.
drumdude wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:08 pm
Yeah, it's equally as likely to do exactly the opposite.

It would be like posting photos of what rape victims were wearing to make women wear something different. The problem is the rapists. The problem is COVID disinformation. Don't blame the victims.
Active antivaxxers who set out to influence others to resist vaccination and then fall ill and die (and these, I understand, are who we are talking about here) are not victims. They are perpetrators.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Mayan Elephant:
Not only have I denounced the Big Lie, I have denounced the Big lie big lie.
K Graham
God
Posts: 1676
Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2021 6:25 am

Re: Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

Post by K Graham »

I wish I had seen this thread before starting one on the same topic. You must have watched the same CNN segment I did which provided the link to sorryantivaxxers.com
"I am not an American ... In my view premarital sex should be illegal" - Ajax18
Post Reply