“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.

This is apparently the point where the “moderate” Republicans are willing to start pushing back — where they’ve got personal experience with just how evil a policy is.

    • @somtwo
      9•8 hours ago

      Jesus fucking Christ

      • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
        18•9 hours ago

        Yeah, my personal theory on antivaxxers is that they’re actually more afraid of autism.

        Because autism is a very visible thing; Everyone knew that one autistic kid growing up. But there are no crunchy moms who remember life before the polio vaccine, because they’re all too young. They literally can’t even comprehend how bad some of these diseases are, because they’ve never seen the effects of them. They never lost a childhood friend to measles, or had a sibling end up infertile due to the mumps. They never saw the entire hospital wings full of iron lungs for polio patients.

        To them, these diseases are boogeymen. But autism is very real, because they have seen it.

        • Irremarkable
          4•4 hours ago

          Which is the only response to those morons is “so you’d rather your kid die than be autistic?”

          Make them admit it. Preferably in front of the kid.

        • Poplar?
          2•4 hours ago

          If “crunchy moms” wasnt a typo whats it mean