Saturday, September 18, 2021

Barry Ritholtz - The Economic Risks from Anti-Vaxxers

States with lots of antivaxxers will feel it in their pockets as their economies dive. 

Fox News mandates vaccines, but this is never mentioned in its broadcasts, or that Rupert Murdoch got vaccinated. 


Vaccinations have become politicized: The AntiVaxxers of the past few decades were founded on a debunked belief linking Vaccines and Autism.

Thanks to Q-Anon, Fox News, OANN, NewsMax (and others), large swaths of the population now believe that Vaccines are problematic.

What was once a bizarre and self-destructive movement has become during the pandemic a full-blown public health threat.

Even worse, every unvaccinated person is a chance for the virus to mutate again. The unvaccinated are “variant factories.” They do more than risk their own health and safety — they put the lives of everyone in the community at greater risk. after vaccine administration. We later learn that Wakefield was funded by litigants against vaccine manufacturers, a detail he failed to disclose.

The modern Anti-Vaxxer movement of recent years traces its origins to a paper published in The Lancet in 1998 by (then Dr.) Andrew Wakefield linking 12 children who developed autism soon after vaccine administration. We later learn that Wakefield was funded by litigants against vaccine manufacturers, a detail he failed to disclose.


Barry Ritholtz - The Economic Risks from Anti-Vaxxers


Rick Newman - How the unvaccinated threaten the economy


New masking rules How the unvaccinated threaten the economy vaccine mandates will intensify the debate over Americans’ right to behave foolishly. But they also highlight the economic cost of refusing vaccinations.


 Rick Newman - How the unvaccinated threaten the economy

7 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Gotta find Kaivey a new hobby horse...

mike norman said...

95% of hospital ICU patients are unvaccinated Covid cases. Stop with the ignorant downplaying of Covid and the misinformation about vaccines.

mike norman said...

"Progressive socialist hysterics."

That's what you think this is? Fucking idiotic comment.

Peter Pan said...

This is hysteria at its finest. We're vaccinating children so that old people can live another year. People who have serious health issues that aren't going away.

It is mainly 'the left' that have lost their minds. They are showing their collectivist, authoritarian mindset.

The 'investigative' vaccines on offer are only good for temporary personal protection. The risk of taking them is more than 100 times greater than proven vaccines.

The coronavirus is endemic, along with the common cold, influenza, and a host of other viruses. Our immune systems have evolved to defend against them, yet they also require these microbes. Immune systems that never get challenged grow weaker.

Matt Franko said...

I had it … it was like at worst an average cold virus we get every year here in the Mid Atlantic…

Matt Franko said...

“ Immune systems that never get challenged grow weaker.”

Well the vaccine challenges your immune system…

Matt Franko said...

Mike, Desantis is reporting in Florida 60% of hospitalized are vaxed…