Getting mad about anti-vaxxers and the Delta coronavirus surge is one thing. But reveling in the mass death of people who refuse to get shots is a whole new ballgame. One that sites like Sorryantivaxxer. com focus on to the exclusion of everything else. thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
The website is likely the most comprehensive repository of one type of now-familiar COVID story: the one where someone who criticized the vaccine ends up dead or hospitalized due to the virus (a story outlets like The Daily Beast have pubbed). thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
First and last names, and faces of the deceased, are prominent on the site, as is editorializing from the anonymous proprietor. thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
"The goal is to scare the bejeezus out of people on the fence about getting vaccinated against COVID,” the proprietor of SorryAntivaxxer. com told The Daily Beast via an anonymized email service. thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
But reveling in this apparently irresistible daily fact of vaccine-era life is not confined to one site and may be doing more harm than good, according to health experts. thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
Then again, according to psychologist Alison Baren, sites like these might be filling a basic need that has nothing to do with ending the pandemic: joy.

“People could be getting enjoyment from seeing anti-vaxxers have justice served against them." thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
Read the @MikeLeePearl’s full report on these sites: thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…

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