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‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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As Ron White says, “you can’t fix stupid”. Seems to be an epidemic of it out there. If only there were a shot you could take…
I think the Ron White comment is pretty stupid, which leaves us with a nice paradox.
You might not be able to fix people who are willfully stupid. You can certainly try to prevent people from being sucked into the whirlpool of misinformation
Then they would not take it!
The sad thing is Ron White fans think he's talking about people who take vaccines. It wouldn't surprise me if he was anti vaccine.
In this case you can only hope stupid is a self correcting course