I still got family that won’t vax bc Tuskegee is still VIVID in their memories. Shit, I was told that story by my uncle when I was ten. “If they offer you any ‘free’ vaccine, some ‘free’ medicine, anything like that boo-boo, that’s 'cause they TESTING some shit on you.” And really, who am I to argue that point when they lived it, remembered it, and passed it to me? These are fears that go back multiple generations among my blood-- we can’t trust Amerikans to not be pulling dodgy shit with medicine.
It’s kind of telling that two hours into existence, this somehow has the most downvotes-- will the settlers ever not disapprove of the colonized trying to protect themselves from their predators?
Independent local doctors were in on the “experiment” too and lied to the victims when they were reached for a second opinion. So it’s not just free medicine but paid ones as well.
African American men lost 1.5 years of life expectancy because of medical mistrust arising from The Tuskegee Study. 1 Understandable since I won’t be going to the doctors either when they are trying to kill me. On the other hand, I die if I don’t go to the doctors. I sometimes feel that America is specifically designed to maximize damage to the psyche.
I still got family that won’t vax bc Tuskegee is still VIVID in their memories. Shit, I was told that story by my uncle when I was ten. “If they offer you any ‘free’ vaccine, some ‘free’ medicine, anything like that boo-boo, that’s 'cause they TESTING some shit on you.” And really, who am I to argue that point when they lived it, remembered it, and passed it to me? These are fears that go back multiple generations among my blood-- we can’t trust Amerikans to not be pulling dodgy shit with medicine.
It’s kind of telling that two hours into existence, this somehow has the most downvotes-- will the settlers ever not disapprove of the colonized trying to protect themselves from their predators?
Independent local doctors were in on the “experiment” too and lied to the victims when they were reached for a second opinion. So it’s not just free medicine but paid ones as well.
African American men lost 1.5 years of life expectancy because of medical mistrust arising from The Tuskegee Study. 1 Understandable since I won’t be going to the doctors either when they are trying to kill me. On the other hand, I die if I don’t go to the doctors. I sometimes feel that America is specifically designed to maximize damage to the psyche.