• undergroundoverground@lemmy.world
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    We need some kind of vaccine to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen to people. Maybe we could combine it with a mumps and rubella inoculation?

    I mean, it won’t bother me. I’m already neurodiverse. So, vaccines only make me stronger.

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    3 months ago

    It used to be patriotic to be vaccinated

    Which really emphasizes how these are actual traitors

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    3 months ago

    A completely preventable disease, and here we are.

    All because we have so many stupid people in this country…if Democrats ever get a decent majority, I hope they bring back vaccination requirements with a vengeance, and for public schools and working in hospitals and things like the military and so on, close the loopholes for people that have “religious” objections to basic science and medicine.

    Don’t like it? Too bad. Citizenship also comes with responsibilities.

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      Five years ago, I felt like ultra-liberal Portland Oregon was awfully vaccine hesitant. I believe it may have shifted as a reaction to Trump 2.0 and Covid, but a lot of what I think of as anti-science still exists. But at least democrats don’t put RFK in charge of vaccines.

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        I definitely do see pockets of this among liberals in my anecdotal experience, going back to the 90s. Prior to that, other than Amish and Mennonites, I never really heard of people being anti-vaxx.

        One thing I did notice is that older liberals (boomer age) would openly mock the younger liberals that were doing the “I’m not vaccinating my kids” thing. I think that is because some of them may have seen or heard things and it stuck. A lived experience/wisdom kind of thing. If you were old enough to see or hear about the situation before vaccines, you were old enough to know better and that younger people were just being morons. Listening to a centerfold when it comes to autism and vaccines instead of, you know, actual experts.

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    Alright, cool. Now lets take a tally of anti-vaxxers among the infected.

    How’s THAT working for ya? Oh, me? I’m fine. I’m sitting over here in public, without measles. You know, on account of how I’m not an idiot?

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      3 months ago

      Herd immunity isn’t for those who won’t get vaccinated, it’s for those who can’t.

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      3 months ago

      Are you lumping yourself in with anti-vax South Carolinans with that “we”? Because I sure as fuck am not.

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          Why pick that border to respect? Do you have political influence in South Carolina? Was your state one of the handful that hasn’t voted the same way in every presidential election of the last forty years? Is your senator a Republican in a district that could have gone either way if you had personally mobilized a couple dozen non-voters?

          Because I sure fucking don’t fit into any of those buckets so leave me out of your “we”.

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            Look man suit yourself, but I’m an American living in America so I’m in the we here.

            The problem of dividing up the states into red and blue America and disassociating with everyone that falls into the other camp is that regionality doesn’t save you from anything. Rhetoric doesn’t save you from anything.

            There are pro-vaccination people in red states and there are anti-vax morons in blue states. Trump is president of all of them and RFK, Jr. runs the department overseeing disease control federally, not just for South Carolina.

            I live in California and there are many Californians that were instrumental in pushing the nonsense that landed us here. Orange county is a hotbed of anti-vax morons. I am a citizen of this country, and this country is full of stupid idiots. We are stupid idiots. Collectively.

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              We’re all humans of Earth too but I can only work on my little pocket of it. I’m no more responsible for what happens in Senegal than I am for Texas or Florida or Pennsylvania.

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                Eh, people that live in Senegal aren’t your compatriots unless you live in Senegal.

                I understand the desire to dissociate. It’s the easiest option. But we as a country are still fucked regardless.

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                  Fuck my “compatriots”, nations are made up and the geopolitical lines do not matter to me. I do not care more for someone because they are born or reside in the same country as me. The country as an entity can also get fucked, it’s too big and built on death and greed.

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    Measles scares the crap out of me. Not only can you die or get serious complications from the initial infection but there’s this super scary disease you can get years later when the virus reawakens. The disease is called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE) and it has a 95% fatality rate. 95! That’s extremely scary and only makes me more relieved I’ve been vaccinated. The fact it’s entirely preventable yet is making the rounds again in the US due to a corrupt and inherently stupid excuse of an administration is infuriating

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    I’m not afraid of measles because I have an immune system!

    That I boosted by getting the fucking MMR shot!