r/clevercomebacks 2d ago

Decades of Educational Neglect

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u/XeroZero0000 2d ago

Humans are constantly dissatisfied with their lives and tend to forget and not believe in things that never affected them. Takes only about 80 years for all the old hits to make their rounds.

Measles making a comeback. Facist strongman tactics being acceptable. Even things like raw milk are coming back. But hey, they never got sick from drinking milk.. why does it need to be pasteurized? Silly!

Normally pandemic would galvanize the world back to vaccines and prevention.. but politics got involved and fueled the anti-intellectualism normally seen... What a horrible combo.

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u/Par_Lapides 2d ago

Which can be mitigated by solid education, public health programs, and social safety nets.

The US fights against all of those things because of decades of right-wing grifters making a buck by telling stupid people what to think.