I've recently been visiting the website sorryantivaxxer.com. I don't do it out of morbid glee, and I take no pleasure over the deaths of people from Covid. It sucks, can confirm.
The reason I read it is to get a picture of why these people refused to get a free vaccine. We've all heard of the people who embrace bizarre conspiracy theories, like Bill Gates put a microchip in it or it makes men sterile (actually, that's Ivermectin).
No, what strikes me about so many of these people who are dying of Covid is that they have an understanding of "god" that is just bonkers. God does not cure Covid. OK. God does not improve your bank account. God does not "do things" to make things better for you. You want to know how I know that? Because childhood cancers exist. God - if they exist - may be a presence you can find psychological or emotional comfort in, but that's mostly you finding grace. It's not God saying, "Well, Suzy is having a bad day, I'd best go sit with her awhile."
Sorry, you aren't that important.
If God does exist, the argument is that they inspired doctors and scientists to invent vaccines. Or steroids. Or Remdesivir. The fact that you won't access the tools given you while waiting for Jesus to heal you suggests, as if we needed more evidence, that Christian fundamentalism is the greatest threat to American self-government. You cannot run a government based on enlightenment principles if a critical mass of citizens reject those principles.
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