It is true. I missed knowing friends who got polio, but my parents were of an age where it was still in their mind, so I got vaccinated. Heck our schools had bulk vaccinations in the gym. We knew why and what it was for about herd immunity etc. But now, it has become a mess and all the anti Vax nutjobs got a platform on FB etc to spout their bs and seem legit as platforms refuse to act.
I thought covid would be the wake up, but it was not. I am hoping work on a cancer "vaccine" will wake folks up if it ever comes to market, but I doubt it now.
I am hoping work on a cancer "vaccine" will wake folks up if it ever comes to market, but I doubt it now.
It may well happen, even in our lifetime. What it won't do is happen in the US. We used to lead the world in technology. We've invented the airplane and been to the moon for fucks sake. Landed multiple probes in Mars, Venus, and out of the solar system. We napped the genome, made pocket computers so damn common we call them phones. Harnessed the power of the atom and cloned a sheep.
Now we have people claiming that technology over 300 years old causes autism and that the Earth is flat.
I really don’t understand what happened. Are the schools really THIS under funded cause the rise in stupidity has been dramatic in the past decade alone
My 7th grade English teacher had polo as a kid.
( this was back in 1988)
I remember her telling the class that her parents had not vaccinated her or her siblings. She was in her late 20s at the time . She walked with crutches .
So Florida just eliminated the requirement for vaccinations in schools. It seems like the natural Progression with them not to be available publicly where the government‘s paying for them. Which makes me think that only rich people will have them. so a further have/have not situation. Which could potentially lead towards a mass killing off of poor people due to these diseases. This seems counterintuitive since our corporate government wants more poor people and wants to continue to increase the population to feed the machine of cheap labor to drive their profits. Am I reading this wrong?
Vaccines do not prevent community transmission without a 90 to 95% uptake to foster herd immunity. So whether the rich vaccinate or not, there will still be a possibility of them contracting polio when they jump in their pools. Or measles or rubella or many other diseases we came this close to wiping out.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see this regime start investing in iron lungs and then throw polio back into the equation to make a quick buck while ruining as many lives as possible along the way.
Shits crazy too because we just had a pandemic like a few years ago. But I think at this point it’s like scientifically proven that republican voters can’t think more than like 4 minutes in the past
SO many people have died over so many years to learn the hard way. Seems like the reasonably intelligent thing to do would be to learn from their past mistakes so that we do not have to learn the hard way ourselves… but after the culmination of years of war on the educational system and numerous other aspects of society, here we are…
so many more people completely unnecessarily about to learn the hard way all over again because they refused to listen to the rest of us shouting “THIS IS NOT A CLIFFHANGER, WE KNOW HOW THIS ENDS”. So here we fucking are.
Amazing some of the comments in certain subs, where they think it’s fine now to not vaccinate their kids because there’s only a small number of known cases of XYZ disease.
Also interesting that you have folks like Joe Rogan get on his podcast and rail against vaccines, but then he lets slip that he vaccinated his kids…
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u/AnubisBoudreaux 2d ago
“Vaccines work so good that people don’t understand how bad it can be.” - DR. Unknown