I am a doctor. I have just seen the videos of Sarah Palin and Ron DeSantis advocating against vaccination. Here is Sarah Palin from yesterday:
And here is FL Gov. DeSantis being vague about whether or not he got the booster vaccine:
They do not know what they are talking about (or do they?).
I must believe they have no idea what Covid does to human lungs. Above is a photo of the inside of a Covid infected lung. Note the absence of clear, healthy, oxygen containing tissue.
COVID caused such severe inflammation that the tiny air sacs, the alveoli, became clogged with inflammatory cells and serum, letting no air into the lungs. This photo is post Mortem. We can assume that no amount of intubation could force air into the alveoli and into their surrounding delicate blood vessels. It is fair to assume that this patient was not vaccinated.
Below you will see the differences between two X-rays - a healthy, air filled lung, and the X-ray of a lung clogged with inflammatory materials induced by the Covid virus:
I show these pictures because I think that most anti-vaxxers have no idea exactly what Covid does to the human body. Nor do they appreciate the ways in which vaccines work to prevent or diminish these potentially lethal consequences of the disease. And the lungs are not the only organs damaged by COVID. It is a vascular (blood vessel) disease. It goes everywhere. Unvaccinated survivors may suffer damage to other body parts. Blood clots are not unusual sequellae.
If I were organizing a pro-vaccine demonstration, these are the images I would carry to show to the public at large. Only after seeing these can an anti-vaxxer be considered an informed citizen. They raise the ethical question of whether doctors should go unpunished for discouraging vaccinations and promoting dangerous alternatives. Should parents be permitted to deprive their children of vaccines? They must look at the pictures above, then decide.