Yup, I’ve said this for years. To antivaxxers, those old diseases are boogeymen. They legitimately don’t believe the diseases are bad, because “well people survived for thousands of years before” (survivorship bias) and the fact that they’ve never been personally affected by it.
They never lost a childhood friend to measles. They never saw entire hospital wings full of kids in iron lungs because of polio. They never watched a friend or family member go deaf because of a childhood case of mumps. They never had a brother, uncle, etc have to come to terms with being unable to have kids, because a childhood case of mumps left them sterile.
But you know what is real to the antivaxxers? Autism. Everyone knows (or has seen) someone who was severely autistic. It doesn’t matter if the link between autism and vaccines is fake; the imagined threat of autism is a bigger threat in their minds than the very real threat of these diseases.
Oh yeah I could tell so much about autism now (ever since I know). I’ve had so much suffering which is related to people, even now. Being excluded and blamed for being myself.
Being autistic itself never was an issue and even comes with some nice perks. Oh yeah and it’s a development thing. Either you are or not, of course.
Lucky though that I am not in the us, I might be scared there. But since I’m an atypical most people would never notice.
Apologies, went off the rails there. Anyhow lots of these things from the beginning of the thread can be fixed by knowledge, but I’m afraid we’ve peaked and are on the steep decline.
A mother lost her son and said she would still not have vaccinated him. These people are just leftover slop. Oh sorry, did I call them people on accident? Bad habit.
Yup, I’ve said this for years. To antivaxxers, those old diseases are boogeymen. They legitimately don’t believe the diseases are bad, because “well people survived for thousands of years before” (survivorship bias) and the fact that they’ve never been personally affected by it.
They never lost a childhood friend to measles. They never saw entire hospital wings full of kids in iron lungs because of polio. They never watched a friend or family member go deaf because of a childhood case of mumps. They never had a brother, uncle, etc have to come to terms with being unable to have kids, because a childhood case of mumps left them sterile.
But you know what is real to the antivaxxers? Autism. Everyone knows (or has seen) someone who was severely autistic. It doesn’t matter if the link between autism and vaccines is fake; the imagined threat of autism is a bigger threat in their minds than the very real threat of these diseases.
Oh yeah I could tell so much about autism now (ever since I know). I’ve had so much suffering which is related to people, even now. Being excluded and blamed for being myself.
Being autistic itself never was an issue and even comes with some nice perks. Oh yeah and it’s a development thing. Either you are or not, of course.
Lucky though that I am not in the us, I might be scared there. But since I’m an atypical most people would never notice.
Apologies, went off the rails there. Anyhow lots of these things from the beginning of the thread can be fixed by knowledge, but I’m afraid we’ve peaked and are on the steep decline.
A mother lost her son and said she would still not have vaccinated him. These people are just leftover slop. Oh sorry, did I call them people on accident? Bad habit.