Anti-vaxxers will only get more vicious as they are shut out from everyday life

Anti-vaxxers have reached a new low by stooping to picking on a puppet, but their rabid behaviour is set to get more vicious.

Picking on a puppet is a new low, even for anti-vaxxers.

Big Bird tweeted about getting vaccinated a few days ago, unleashing a torrid torrent of anti-vaccination abuse from people calling him a communist.

That’s anti-vaxxers for you – turning on a six-foot fictional yellow bird.

“I got the COVID-19 vaccine today! My wing is feeling a little sore, but it’ll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy,” Big Bird tweeted on Sunday.

It didn’t take long for Republicans Ted Cruz to attack the yellow fellow for producing “Government propaganda … for your 5 year old”.

Republican Wendy Rogers suggested that kids should be “listening to Jesus, not Big Bird”. “Big Bird is a communist,” Rogers tweeted.

Conservative activist Tom Fitton chimed in, saying: “Leave our kids alone”.

While anti-vaxxers spread deadly misinformation and troll people who are vaccinated, they’re ignoring the fact that many unvaccinated people are getting sick and dying of Covid.

I got the COVID-19 vaccine today! My wing is feeling a little sore, but it'll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy.

Ms. @EricaRHill even said I’ve been getting vaccines since I was a little bird. I had no idea!

— Big Bird (@BigBird) November 6, 2021

Covid-deniers and anti-vaxxers harassing others should stand up for their principles and opt out of the public healthcare system and stop taking up the places of people doing the right thing.

AMA Victoria president, Dr Roderick McRae, rightly pointed out recently that some of these people don’t even believe the virus exists, so they should tell their loved ones to just “let nature run its course”.

In Singapore the government has announced it will no longer cover the cost of Covid treatment for those who choose not to get vaccinated.

I know it will never come to this. Blocking people from lifesaving medical care because of their political views is not the Australian way. But wouldn’t it be nice to see anti-vaxxers and rabid Covid-deniers stand up for their beliefs and leave the hospital beds to those who deserve them?

With new rules every day barring anti-vaxxers from taking part in everyday life, expect the backlash to only get more vicious. Anti-vaxxers have abused and spat on police and health workers and intimidated people getting their vaccinations.

In this country many well-known people who have posted or spoken about getting vaccinated have been targeted for abuse by this disgusting mob.

Sesame Street has used their platform to teach kids about Covid vaccines.

These include Mahalia Barnes, the daughter of rock legend Jimmy Barnes, who posted about getting her 12-year-old daughter jabbed. She was hit with a wave of insults from strangers telling her to let her daughter make up her own mind about getting a “fake jab”.

Former Cats star Cameron Mooney and his wife Seona got the same treatment for posting a photo of them getting vaccinated with their daughter. They were accused of “bowing to coersion (sic)” and getting an “experimental jab”.

Writing about the need for children to be vaccinated on Tuesday, I copped the same abuse, with people telling me my views are “horrendously dangerous”.

“Maybe you should just move to communist China and start reporting,” one wrote.

Another said I should be ashamed for my story “advocating jabbing children with an experimental gene therapy treatment”.

“How many children would you like to kill, render infertile or bring permanent harm to?”

The saddest thing is how dangerous the anti-vaccination message really is.

It’s no coincidence that 98 per cent of people in intensive care wards with Covid right now are not vaccinated.

The big harm is not vaccination, but the virus itself. Even Big Bird knows this.