• GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 days ago

    Same thing could be said for anti-vaxxers. Never had to live through polio, measles, or other diseases running rampant and wreaking havoc on the population so they don’t have the perspective to immediately see the benefits that vaccines have afforded us.

    Edit: before anyone points it out, yes I’m aware there was a pandemic a few years back and anti-vaxxers were coming out of the woodwork. But by that point there were politically manufactured anti-science movements with troublingly eugenicist undertones in full force. COVID was most lethal towards the sick and elderly, which a lot of conservatives wrote off as “acceptable losses,” measles and polio affected children who were otherwise healthy.