The conspiracy joins a list of other claims by the presidential candidate, including the suggestion at an anti-COVID-19 vaccine demo that life was more difficult today than it was for those attempting to flee Nazi Germany
The conspiracy joins a list of other claims by the presidential candidate, including the suggestion at an anti-COVID-19 vaccine demo that life was more difficult today than it was for those attempting to flee Nazi Germany
Who, Israel? I didn’t know that but sounds right, Israeli tech and education is world class. I meant jewish populations in general around the world though, who tend to be educated and affluent.
It’s worth pointing out this isn’t true for all jews, the hassidic population of New York for example is famously anti-vax. Thanks to them, things like measles and polio are coming back in NY. They tend to be isolated though so hopefully it’ll stay in their communities. I hate plague rats, religious and secular, so fuck 'em.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/nyregion/measles-jewish-community.html
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6819a4.htm
Yes, Israel. They started vaccinations very early.
Having spent some time around Orthodox groups (my parents belonged to the synagogue so it was free for me to belong there also), many Orthodox are as anti-science as evangelical Christians.
One rabbi would regularly give sermons talking about how science was wrong and the Torah was right. He’d point to science “changing their story” and how the Torah always said the same thing. Nevermind that science “changes its story” based on new evidence and interpretations of the Torah have definitely changed over the centuries.
So it saddened me, but didn’t surprise me when Chasidic groups acted as though COVID wasn’t a threat and all that was needed was for everyone to get together (unmasked) in a small space and pray really hard.
One of the last nails in the coffin for me before I went 100% atheist was when I was at a Jewish “youth group” religious gathering where they brainwash kids. They were trying to tell us earth and the universe etc is ~5000 years old. I was old enough to know that is absurd but naive enough to not know there’s a lot of evil or delusional people out there that would lie to you about such things. I was so frustrated and confused, almost to the point of tears. Looking back, that was a major loss of innocence for me. Ever since then I view any religious nutjob with suspicion and fear tbh because they are unhinged and willing to believe anything without a shred of evidence; indeed they hold their beliefs despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Terrifying. Bunch of plague rats, the lot of them.