Who among us hasn’t met people whom we’d prefer were they to be potted plants?

Right.

But we have yet to encounter a medicine or vaccine that turns people into potted plants because those types of mistakes tend to get weeded out (pun absolutely intended) in the research process, like the first time it is injected experimentally into a mouse. But that type of thinking requires a lot of appreciation for the scientific method and the modern Republican party just isn’t that into science. They prefer paranoid conspiracy theories even when those conspiracy theories are of the most dangerous type, like the fact that the government is hiding evidence that the vaccine turns people into potted plants, unless the vaccine just kills them first.

An elected official in Arizona, Corporation Commissioner Jim O’Connor, said just that in an interview:

“I’m also aware through other information that many people who have taken the shot, many thousands of people here in the U.S., are deceased,” said O’Connor in the interview. “And the deceased part is the good news. And please don’t take that out of context. But the alternative to being deceased after the shot, there are something like 40,000 plus recorded cases of people that are now potted plants. They are human vegetables. They’ve lost their ability to function.”

As noted by Crooks and Liars, perhaps the scariest part of all this is that Jim O’Connor is charged with securing the safety of water and electrical plants. The other scary part is that COVID actually does kill people. It will not turn people into “potted plants,” but – especially with the long haulers, it can make their lives a living hell, being unable to go out and do much more than someone in a pot.

It is tragic that this critical point has escaped many Republicans’ notice.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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