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  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    This generation has never seen the ravegaes that these preventable diseases can reek.

    These vaccines are the pinnacle of health care research and most were given away for free by those who discovered them… They gave away millions in potential licensing fees for the greater good of humanity… Now that gift is being spit up on by people who have no idea what they are talking about.

    What a disgrace.

    • Cactopuses@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      I used to agree with that. But then Covid happened and I listened to people on the radio call in saying “we gotta let a few old people go to save the exonomy.” As though human life was an acceptable cost.

      I genuinely thought people at least were ignorant to the death tole to then but I was mistaken. It got so bad the host cut off calls.

      The vaccine then came out and I watched millions shun it, despite being shown to be safe and effective. Sure, some folks thought they were dangerous (disinformation and all) but that radio show told me, some people want the world to burn.

      There are people who saw devastation and don’t get vaccinated because it’s an acceptable loss.

    • clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      that’s one of the side effects of the poor education in the USA… test oriented education focuses on scoring high on tests and general knowledge items such as the history of public health and vaccines are neglected, or if they are discussed, they are discussed in kindergarten terms

      • JamBandFan1996@lemmy.ml
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        19 hours ago

        I’m pretty sure the people that did well in school are not the ones who don’t support vaccines though

      • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        I mean if you know about the Tuskegee experiments you might understand why a certain group of people are skeptical about ANY kind of government “vaccine”.

        The TL:DR is that the US CDC injected people with syphilis but told them it was a vaccine, just so they could see what the long term effects of syphilis were when you didn’t get treatment. 100 people died as guinea pigs.

    • TheMinister@sh.itjust.works
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      23 hours ago

      The fact that you changed “spit on” to “spit up on” was perfect. These are emotional toddlers flailing their arms and kicking their feet and accidentally spitting up on all of us and everything sane. Kudos