The rate of parents who refused one or more recommended vaccines increased from 9.1% in 2006 to a staggering 16.7% in 2013 1
What happened between these two time periods?
-CIA faked a vaccination drive to collect DNA from children in Pakistan. (2011) 2
-Beta Israelis were secretly given birth control shots believing that they were flu shots in some cases (2013) 3
Stop screwing around with medicine. Blaming the people doesn’t get at the root of the issue when their governments fomented mistrust in the first place. It takes decades to build up public trust and the antivax movement is a symptom of distrust in institutions, not the cause.
Being a biologist, I was very much against antivaxxers. With the Covid pandemic I started seeing some things their way. You hit the nail on the head. The problem shouldn’t be people asking questions (no matter how “stupid” they may be/seem). The problem is governments and corporations creating an atmosphere of mistrust. The way COVID was handled through fear mongering and demans of blind faith, just so the politicians wouldn’t get blamed for any mishandlings in the future, created way more antivaxxers than any religion/dogma has ever created before.
The questions are usually stupid, but the fear behind them isn’t completely unfounded. The trick is to get people to understand and ask the right questions instead of pointless fearmongering.
Yeah the US is reaping what they sow here. Americans may be politically illiterate, but they do notice the corruption in their country and the exploitation in their lives.
It’s no wonder why so many people are suspicious of something that’s free (what’s ever given to them for free?) that is produced by the private sector (how will they profit from this?) for their benefit (since when do businesses or the government ever help them?). A lot of conspiracy theories are basically updated versions of real historical atrocities, like the Tuskegee syphilis experiments.
The rate of parents who refused one or more recommended vaccines increased from 9.1% in 2006 to a staggering 16.7% in 2013 1
What happened between these two time periods?
-CIA faked a vaccination drive to collect DNA from children in Pakistan. (2011) 2
-Beta Israelis were secretly given birth control shots believing that they were flu shots in some cases (2013) 3
Stop screwing around with medicine. Blaming the people doesn’t get at the root of the issue when their governments fomented mistrust in the first place. It takes decades to build up public trust and the antivax movement is a symptom of distrust in institutions, not the cause.
Being a biologist, I was very much against antivaxxers. With the Covid pandemic I started seeing some things their way. You hit the nail on the head. The problem shouldn’t be people asking questions (no matter how “stupid” they may be/seem). The problem is governments and corporations creating an atmosphere of mistrust. The way COVID was handled through fear mongering and demans of blind faith, just so the politicians wouldn’t get blamed for any mishandlings in the future, created way more antivaxxers than any religion/dogma has ever created before.
The questions are usually stupid, but the fear behind them isn’t completely unfounded. The trick is to get people to understand and ask the right questions instead of pointless fearmongering.
Yeah the US is reaping what they sow here. Americans may be politically illiterate, but they do notice the corruption in their country and the exploitation in their lives.
It’s no wonder why so many people are suspicious of something that’s free (what’s ever given to them for free?) that is produced by the private sector (how will they profit from this?) for their benefit (since when do businesses or the government ever help them?). A lot of conspiracy theories are basically updated versions of real historical atrocities, like the Tuskegee syphilis experiments.
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