A growing measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas—24 cases so far in a county that voted 91 percent for Donald Trump—illustrates a grim irony.
Senate Republicans plan to vote today on anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be the secretary of health and human services. If they seat him, it will be Republican families that suffer.
At this point, my response is “good”.
The only time conservatives seem to give a shit about a thing is if it happens to them, so I guess that how it needs to go. I know there will be splash damage. I know people will be hurt and killed. But for fucks sake, I can’t force myself to care about people who so consistently and constantly work against their own interests unless they’re hit in the face by an object lesson on the point in question. So yeah; this’ll suck, but maybe conservatives will slightly pull their heads out of their asses after enough of them die.
Whole towns got wiped out by covid and it didn’t seem to matter.
When they get what they voted for, my heart will go out for them.
I’ll send my prayers
(i’m atheist)