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Anti-vaxxers are bad people, in case that wasn’t clear. I keep waiting for the episode where someone has an adverse reaction or heart inflammation.
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Wife works at a middle school. We both had to have MMR boosters cuz anti-vax peeps have let measles get strong and the vax we had as kids wasn't strong enough. I told her that if she brings me to a school function and anyone mentions how they don't do vaccinations I am just going to start swinging. No words , just fists. I choose violence!
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They're not bad people (usually - that British guy who started all this as a scam to sue pharma companies to get rich probably qualifies as bad even though he claims to be remorseful now), they're just fucking stupid. Somehow "covid shots r bad" morphed into "all vaccines are bad" and you've got dumb fuck parents not inoculating their kids for diseases that will literally kill or maim them
We've got people rejecting pasteurized milk, rejecting vaccines against easily preventable diseases, next up I guess people will decide that untreated water is healthier for you and get infected with parasites, worms, and cholera ("raw water" movement is super fringe, but give it time at this rate)
Anti-vaxxers have been around long before covid. Remember the left started that movement, with Jenny McCarthy most notably.
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I'm not an anti-vaxxer, I and my kids all got MMR, etc. My son recently got the meningococcal vaccine with my blessing.
With that said, if the covid fiasco didn't make you rethink all medical advice from the past century or so, I suspect some kind of debilitating cognitive problems.
As far as I'm concerned, at this point literally every piece of medical consensus needs to be reevaluated, starting from the assumption that its bullshit and requiring evidence to disprove that assumption.
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Oh I know. Anti-vaxxers used to be primarily the essential oils heal everything crew and the Infowars adherents. Covid just turned it into a political thing and you saw a massive shift towards a larger segment of conservatives buying into it as well. Remember when 4chan used to make fun of unvaccinated kids before it became political?
Mumps, measles, polio, etc. One thing to keep in mind is some of the main risks of some diseases isn't always the core disease, but the fact it can cause stuff like meningitis as a severe side effect.