Remember when giving a shit about others was touted as a virtue?
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When was that? Surely you don't mean the 50's?
Generally, when we were kids, whenever that may have been. We were taught that sharing and compassion were good things.
That's fair, and in that case I'm glad that it never stopped being touted as a virtue.
Even if there have always been selfish idiots who fail to learn that lesson ruining it for the rest of us.
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I don’t think it ever was actually. At least I don’t remember anything like that. Do you remember something?
My fringe theory is all antivaxxers are just terrified of needles and playing the long con. They act like wimps so it tracks.
i genuinely think this plays a major factor. vaccines are unpleasant to get and you receive a subset of the symptoms of the actual disease for your trouble (because the symptoms are your immune reaction to having a disease, and the vaccine is like a scrimmage practice). a lot of these chucklefucks simply don't understand that while the vaccine isn't fun, it's far more enjoyable than dying of the disease. they'll even plan on just avoiding sick people or justify they have strong healthy bodies and don't need to worry (even though a strong healthy vaccinated body is the ideal place to stop a spread)
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that is 100% the case.
But what, and hear me out, hear me out hear, what if that shot all those years ago was actually part of a plot spanning across all political parties and involving millions of government employees and the plot was to give us a shot to minimize unnecessary death BUT that shot hurt a little bit and I don't like ouchies so, and hear me out, what if we don't get the shit and protest it but come up with a better excuse than disliking ouchies?
Or it was part of a plot to put oligarchs with vested financial interests in control of the US government?
...Oh, right, we got that already.
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If these losers family from the early 20th century were still alive they would curb stomp everyone of them.
Goin to get my MMR tomorrow because I’m not fuckin with these antivaxx inbreds
I just hold a crystal these days.. no money hold a crystal.. cat's fucked hold a crystal. Measles.. hold a crystal. Do I need to add the /s tag?
When I was a kid, they had developed the oral variant already. I still remember my mom taking me to a place where I had to eat a lump of sugar a couple of times. I didn't complain even though it tasted a bit odd.
Apparently oral one is less effective. I got the shot even as an adult because the gov said it's back now and is mandatory for certain things.
The oral vaccine used a live, attenuated virus. It was slightly contagious: For a short time after vaccination, you could actually pass the vaccine virus to other people, conferring immunity even among unvaccinated people.
It also had a slight risk of causing polio. The attenuated virus could mutate, either in the vaccinated person, or in people subsequently infected. The risk was a tiny fraction that of the wild virus, so it was considered to be acceptable.
But then we (nearly) eradicated the wild variant.
Because fewer and fewer people were exposed to it in the wild, the risk of contracting paralytic polio from the virus fell below the risk of contracting it from the oral vaccine. We abandoned the oral vaccine about 20 years ago in the US.
AFAIK, an improved, more genetically stable oral vaccine is still used in certain regions with lower vaccination rates.
The polio vaccine was extremely effective and polio was very nasty. It also affected kids.
Jonas Salk was a man who understood the point of science and life
Smallpox is gone, there's still polio in three countries. But if it were eradicated like smallpox then we wouldn't have to vaccinate for it. Like a bunch of other diseases only found in humans...
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