Stupid is as stupid dies- Anti-vaxxers "solve" yet another medical mystery

And you thought it took years to become a doctor? Nope, all it takes is about 30 minutes, a few Google searches, and a bunch of YouTube videos.

“I am fully vaccinated. Not sure why others do what they do.”

I couldn’t agree more. I don’t know why Alice Stewart died a few weeks ago; no one does yet. All anyone knew is that the former CNN commentator expired from an apparent “medical event.” She was 58 and died far too young. It’s a tragedy that her friends, loved ones, and coworkers are struggling to come to grips with. That should be it; no one should be imputing sinister motives.

Right?

Not for members of the anti-vaccine community, instant medical experts who are convinced every bad thing in the world happens because of the COVID-19 vaccines. Never mind the research behind the vaccines, which shows them to be overwhelmingly safe and effective.

Yes, the COVID-19 vaccines are harmful, at least according to these intellectual and moral non-entities, but dying from COVID-19? Now, there’s a noble undertaking.

Are the COVID-19 vaccines absolutely 110% guaranteed to be safe for every human being, NO MATTER WHAT? Of course not; what in life is? But they’re a damned sight safer than taking a chance on getting the virus—and possibly dying from it.

Republican political strategist and CNN commentator Alice Stewart passed away this weekend at the age of 58. No specific cause of death has been given, yet, but she was found dead outside her home Saturday morning, as a result of some kind of medical emergency that is none of anyone’s business.

No foul play is suspected by anyone — well, except for the ghoulish anti-vaccine QAnon weirdos who have gone balls-to-the-wall spreading the word that she died from the Covid-19 vaccine.

As you are likely aware by now, these brilliant researchers have figured out that every person who dies for an unnamed reason, or whose obituary lists them as having “died suddenly” and every person who dies for a heart-related reason these days … was actually killed by the Covid vaccine. This makes it very easy to claim that millions of deaths were caused by the vaccine, especially if people are willing to accept the premise that people never died for unnamed reasons or died suddenly or died from heart problems before it was invented.

People die for all sorts of reasons, from the mundane to the natural to the ridiculous to the sublime—and none of these reasons may have anything at all to do with the COVID-19 vaccines.

I’m fully vaccinated and plan to remain that way. Since I have two arterial stents, I’m in a high-risk group, so when a new vaccine comes out, you’re going to have to fight me for a place at the front of the line. That’s how much I believe in and trust the science behind them. Of course, I’m married to a nurse practitioner who works for a pharmaceutical company, so I get my information from a good source. Even absent that, though, I’d still do the same thing.

The only reaction I’ve ever had to any of the numerous vaccines (I’ve lost track of the number) was a slight soreness at one of the injection sites. So it took a few MPH off my fastball. NBD—24 hours, and I was as good as new (and I’ve never had a fastball).

So, you think it reasonable to assume that COVID-19 vaccines probably didn’t contribute to Ms. Stewart’s death—right?

Not so fast, my friend. It seems the anti-vaccine community has something to say about that. Nothing intelligent or valuable, to be sure, but something:

The always wacky Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News tweeted a video of people who said they got the vaccine and then died, writing, “This one goes out to CNN’s Alice Stewart, who pushed the shot onto millions of people, got the shots herself posting selfies getting them w her mask. Besides working at CNN she was an athlete in phenomenal shape. So Young beautiful and just #DiedSuddenly.”

"People that administered and pushed this on innocent people while not knowing what was in that [shot emoji] and had no possibility of knowing the side effects are really evil people,” she continued. “I suppose you can forgive them, but never forget what they did to innocent people.”

Of course, whoever’s behind the Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News hasn’t examined Ms. Stewart’s body, doesn’t know her health history, and they almost certainly don't have anything approaching an MD. I’d be shocked if that person has a BS in anything remotely scientific. So, their credibility, in this case, hovers at or just slightly below zero.

“RIP Alice Stewart,” wrote one social media user. “Unfortunately for her, she was absolutely and utterly wrong….she would have been better off ignoring everyone she put her blind faith in, and instead listening to us.”

“CNN's Alice Stewart got some Sudden Karma today and #DiedSuddenly,” wrote another. “When the millions of regular folks who just fell for the scam die from the jab, it's sad. But, when politicians or CIA propaganda media die from it, it's justice.”

There are more. They all more or less say the same thing. “She mocked us, and now she’s #DiedSuddenly!” is the general refrain.

It’s fairly obvious what’s going on here. It started with the masks. As soon as it was announced that masks don’t protect you as much as they protect others from you, they freaked the fuck out and stopped wearing masks (actually, if you recall, they wanted masks when everyone was saying not to buy them because we didn’t want health workers to run out). They didn’t like being told, however, that they were putting people’s lives in danger. They wanted to be able to put people’s lives in danger without anyone commenting on it. Then they didn’t like being told not to drink or inject bleach or not to drink colloidal silver until they turned blue. They didn’t like being told not to go out or not to have big parties, they didn’t like watching other people follow the rules, either, because they knew it made them look like jerks.

These assholes, who live for the moment they can scream, “I TOLD YOU SO!” would try anything—Ivermectin, colloidal silver, bleach, Whopper Jrs., you name it—except what the scientific community recommended. Why? Who knows why stupid people do anything? They’d take their car to a mechanic and trust what that person says, but they don’t trust a doctor, scientist, or medical researcher.

That’s why they’re stupid.

I might call it “natural selection” because I’m just that cynical, knowhutimean? If science presents people with solutions that could save their lives, yet those people refuse to avail themselves of those solutions, that’s on them. If they then die in large part from their own stupidity, the medical community bears no responsibility. No one can force anyone to accept a vaccine that may save their life.

Stupid is as stupid dies.

And there’s a whole boatload of stupidity within the anti-vaccine community. That was true in 2020 and 2021, and it remains true today. These folks possess the collective brainpower of Bic lighter.

Then, when the vaccine happened and everyone else was excited to be able to live a little again without being scared of catching a dangerous virus, they didn’t like being told that the people who followed the rules and got their vaccine passports could start going places again and that they couldn’t. They didn’t like being told to take a vaccine instead of horse antibiotics or whatever other nonsense they came up with.

They didn’t like being told that they’d need a vaccine to go to work or to get on a plane and they didn’t like being treated as if they were dangerous just because, well, they were.

But they wanted so badly to be right. They wanted so badly to live out the dream of actually being smarter than all of the scientists who thought they knew everything.

So, in retaliation, they started coming up with a narrative about how the Covid vaccine was dangerous — and, almost more importantly, how those who took it were dangerous to “purebloods” like them. You know, because of how we could surely murder them with our spike proteins.

They want this so badly to be true. They need it to be true. They want that Schadenfreude and since they’re not getting it in reality, they just have to LARP it the hell out. They now all pretend that they live in a world where they really did turn out to be right, that everyone now agrees that they were right all along and people are dropping like flies from the vaccine, because that is a world that feels good to them.

The bottom line is that stupid people don’t like being told that they’re stupid, and they especially don’t like paying the consequences of their stupidity. Since most of them are “victims” of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, they don’t recognize the depth, breadth, and/or consequences of their ignorance. They’ve convinced themselves that they’re fucking brilliant when, in fact, precisely the opposite is true.

They’re so self-centered and self-absorbed that they fail to understand that their decisions and actions can impact the lives of others. This selfishness is especially true in a pandemic, where one can find oneself in a crowd and face the possibility of either passing or contracting a highly communicable disease. Stupid people don’t care; it’s not their problem, and they don’t think they should suffer for the “greater good.”

Until they do suffer, and then they demand that all the stops be pulled out for them.

The only “greater good” is their self-interest. There is no “community” or “shared responsibility.” There’s only “me,” “myself,” and “I.” Looking out for others doesn’t occur to them because looking out for #1 is all they care about.

Selfishness isn’t just an attitude for people like this; it’s a way of life.

On some level, we all have feelings like this. When I was a kid, one of the things that kept me going to school every day, despite more or less being Carrie without the telekinetic powers, was my plan to someday be a world famous star of stage and screen, so that everyone who made my life hell would think “Boy, I guess maybe we should have been nicer to that girl after all!” I don’t think that’s all that unusual, but I also know that I felt that way because I wasn’t happy and because I felt hurt. I’m okay now. I’m not hurting anymore and I don’t really have any desire whatsoever to give an Academy Award acceptance speech in which I rake my elementary/middle school archnemesis over the coals. I’m good.

I’m not saying any of this this because we should empathize with these people and their weird pain, but because I just think it’s worth being aware of how this happens. Because I do know that part of the reason we handled their anti-science nonsense with such snark and vitriol at the height of the pandemic was because we were angry that they were putting our health at risk and didn’t care, and so it felt really good sometimes to call them stupid, and it sometimes even felt good when we saw Covid-deniers get Covid.

There is something to be said for Karma. While I can only speak for myself, I suspect most of us felt something of a sense of justification when COVID-deniers got COVID-19 or, worse, died from it.

I’ve never wished death on anyone, no matter how intellectually and/or morally vacant they may have been, but sometimes Karma serves up precisely what one deserves, no?

I hope that the anti-vaccines freaks will someday find something to quench their rage and find a degree of the peace they lack now. Why else would they choose to piss on the death of a woman they don’t even know? What purpose is served by such smallness and mean-spiritedness?

How does disrespecting someone who died suddenly and so young serve any purpose? Are they so petty that it makes them feel better about themselves?

We may never know why Alice Stewart died, but guess what? It’s none of our damned business. We should be offering our condolences to her friends, loved ones, and coworkers, who are struggling to come to grips with the loss of someone taken far too soon.

That’s the real tragedy.

The anti-vaxxers can hop on the Hell Expressway for all I care. With any luck, they’ll discover it’s a one-way trip.

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