Superspreader event.
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That would be a great place for a measles outbreak to start.
I thought about that. Unfortunately, aside from getting the tickets and the infectious persons, those attending are all beneficiaries of the past vaccination programs.
Probably the will be several different infections passed on at that event. smh.
"Sponsored by Lorelei Funeral Homes, where anti-vaxxers get a 10% discount. Ask about our family plan."
"Sold Out Anti-Vax Conference Becomes A Trending Investment For Gravediggers"
...FTFY
I fucking hate them both with a burning passion
Obviously, Trump as well, and anyone who has supported him
Sold out? Please tell me it's a community college rented classroom for like 25 people
RFK and Wakefield each made >$500K a year courting to antivax simp groups.
There's good money in rallying idiots. Flat earthers, aliens, antivax, etc.
A conference. For anti vax.
So, a room full of nut jobs stroking each other.
Would be a shame if the venue caught fire, and all those pesky fire doors got stuck because OSHA got deregulated...
Absolutely amazing that they have Wakefield as their poster boy
For those who don't know Wakefield's name:
Lancet retracts 12-year-old article linking autism to MMR vaccines https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2831678/
"In a statement published on Feb. 2, the British medical journal said that it is now clear that “several elements” of a 1998 paper it published by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues (Lancet 1998;351[9103]:637–41) “are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation.” "
Most of what I think I know about Wakefield, I learned from hbomberguy (YouTube).
I had skimmed some mass-media stories about Wakefield back when he was making himself infamous. The one very big point that those stories didn't seem to want to spell out, the critical conclusion that I didn't understand until hbomberguy highlighted it, was that Wakefield's scandal wasn't the result of incompetence, bad luck, differences of opinion, or the kind of ordinary dead ends that happen in real science inquiry. Wakefield undertook a deliberate campaign of misinformation, one that he'd planned and stood to profit from.
And they weren't merely incorrect, they were fraudulent. Wakefield fraudulently and purposefully manipulated data to obtain the incorrect outcome. To me it's like... the instance of scientific fraud and academic dishonesty - I can't think of any case more infamous, which is why I think rolling him out is so amazing.
I bet these some money laundering organizations buying up the tickets as a bribe, and it's not all actual people. Just like they do with books
Reminder that Andrew Wakefield lost his medical license for falsifying vaccine data
Well, if they don't like vaccines, I have a just as good alternative for disease control specifically designed for these folks.
NAPALM. Sticks to Anti-Vaxxers.

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