Tag Archives: anti-vaxxers

Before Vaccines: Home Burials

By Robin Bates | Published: July 17, 2023

Poems like Frost’s “Home Burial” can bring home the reality of a child’s death.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 10, 2023

Anti-vaxxers should read 19th century novels, which describe high mortality rates

By Robin Bates | Published: December 2, 2021

As the GOP becomes a pro-Covid party, they resemble Satan in “Paradise Lost,” unleashing death upon humankind.

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By Robin Bates | Published: October 21, 2021

A Scott Bates fable captures Trumpist authoritarianism when it comes to vaccine resistance.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2021

Anti-Maskers appear to have been infused by Allecto, the black fury from hell described in “Aeneid.”

By Robin Bates | Published: August 13, 2021

People resisting the Covid vaccines are like the counselors in “Beowulf” worshipping false idols to ward off Grendel’s attacks.