"This is at the heart of MAHA, and why RFK and co find themselves now on the Right— they are Nazis. They believe that the weak should be culled, that you should "trust your immune system" because physical strength and health is equivalent to moral strength"

The basic idea here, uniting vaccine hostility, ending PEPFAR, skepticism of GLP-1 drugs, pasteurization, etc, is that the Right believes The Strong do not need these protections or cheats, and they reward the undisciplined/ deviant/weak when they ought to suffer or die
To summarize, the metaphor of Moral Strength is a set of correspondences between the moral and physical domains:
• Being Good Is Being Upright.
• Being Bad Is Being Low.
• Doing Evil Is Falling.
• Evil Is a Force (either internal or external).
• Morality Is Strength.
One consequence of this metaphor is that punishment can be good for you, since going through hardships builds moral strength. Hence, the homily "Spare theThey believe that medical science has constructed a whole order which increasingly protects people from what we do not need to be protected from; sure, maybe some fat disabled homosexual needs pasteurization because their body can't handle Natural Raw Milk-but not me, I'm Strong
174This is at the heart of MAHA, and why RFK and co find themselves now on the Right— they are Nazis. They believe that the weak should be culled, that you should "trust your immune system" because physical strength and health is equivalent to moral strengthBy suffering all these individuals with weak bodies to live, we have weakened the national body as a whole. We have become fallen, soft, ripe for predation. We can only restore our strength and natural position at the top of the hierarchy by purging weakness through struggle
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Chickenpox infests the body after "immunity" is achieved, becoming shingles as soon as the immune system is compromised. Measles does to the immune system what magnets do to a hard drive. COVID fucks up your nerves.

The reward for surviving disease is not strength, it's weakness.

Would that work?

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