If you planned to attend the \u201cUnjected\u201d singles mixer at Recess Beer Garden in Denver later this week, it\u2019s been canceled due to community opposition.<\/p>\n
Denver was the first stop on the anti-vaccination dating app four-state tour to give those opposed to vaccination a chance to meet and fall in love with others who do not understand science. Although the app founders oppose all vaccinations, those who have received the COVID-19 vaccination are explicitly forbidden to join. Shucks.<\/p>\n
Unjected was started by two women in Hawaii back in 2021. The organization initially invited anti-vaxxers to \u201cfind love with mRNA free partners.\u201d Pickings were worse than on other dating apps, however, since all living creatures naturally have mRNA in their cells.<\/p>\n
Unjected has since scrubbed the line from the website. For a good laugh, you\u2019ll need to visit their Facebook page instead. After being uninvited by the Denver beer garden, the app spokeswoman aired her vexation on the social media platform by claiming the COVID shot killed millions as part of a mass depopulation agenda.<\/p>\n
Apparently, the \u201cWorld\u2019s First Unvaccinated Platform\u201d has lined up another location, the Grizzly Rose. They should have booked the massive secret underground bunker under the Denver International Airport, where unvaccinated extraterrestrials are looking to hook up.<\/p>\n
The Grizzly Rose is likely to regret hosting the event. The first venue bore the brunt of the Denver community\u2019s hostility to Unjected despite their lack of involvement in the event. Recess Beer Garden was chosen at random and wisely backed out. Can\u2019t blame them for taking a pass.<\/p>\n
Although COVID infections are down, thanks in part to widespread vaccination, other communicable diseases are on the up and up, thanks to increasing vaccination rejection promoted by the likes of Unjected.<\/p>\n
Colorado public health officials just announced the 17th case of measles this year. A child who had not been vaccinated ended up in the hospital, but not before exposing others at school and at a restaurant. Measles can linger in the air on suspended droplets for up to two hours. Even after an infected person leaves the building, people remain exposed to the virus.<\/p>\n
Babies too young to be vaccinated and those who cannot be vaccinated for a legitimate health reason, such as a vaccine allergy, as well as those who have not been vaccinated for no good reason, are vulnerable to infection.<\/p>\n
The disease is so contagious that before 1963, when the vaccine became available, most children got measles. Up to 4 million people contract the disease each year. Of these about 48,000 are hospitalized, and 400 to 500 people die every year. Some patients who experienced encephalitis (swelling of the brain) face lifelong effects such as epilepsy, intellectual disability, vision loss, and deafness. Others develop an immunological deficiency or lung damage from pneumonia contracted while the body was trying to fight off the measles virus.<\/p>\n
Since 1963, the vaccine has saved thousands of people from disease, disability, and death. It is so effective that in the year 2000, the disease was considered eliminated from the United States. Now, thanks to the anti-vaxx movement, organizations like Unjected, and disinformation super spreaders like the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK, Jr., measles and other communicable diseases are once again putting people in harm\u2019s way. Colorado, like other states, is on track to exceed the number of cases contracted last year.<\/p>\n
Denver singles would be wise to reject Unjected.<\/p>\n
Krista Kafer is a Sunday Denver Post columnist.<\/p>\n
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