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Public sentiment on the importance of safe, lifesaving childhood vaccines has significantly declined in the US since the pandemic—which appears to be solely due to a nosedive in support from people who are Republican or those who lean Republican, according to new polling data from Gallup.
In 2019, 52 percent of Republican-aligned Americans said it was “extremely important” for parents to get their children vaccinated. Now, that figure is 26 percent, falling by half in just five years. In comparison, 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners said it was “extremely important” this year, down slightly from 67 percent in 2019.
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This is gonna be the real maga legacy. A generation of kids that have to deal with the consequences of horrific, preventable, disease
Wait until tetanus starts being a real issue again. It’s actually pretty scary shit. In advanced stages it can make your muscles contract and spasm so hard your bones can fracture.
At least tetanus isn’t really person-to-person transmissible
That’s true, but I figure it’s common enough and an entirely preventable illness.
It’s one of those examples of the vaccine working so well that the population completely forgot how bad it can be and that it’s a very slow and terrible way to die.Yeah, my only point was more that at least the antivaxxers will only be hurting themselves and (unfortunately) their children, not risking other people like with covid
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In comparison, 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners said it was “extremely important” this year, down slightly from 67 percent in 2019.
Well, that’s disappointing. As someone who has spend many years in Europe, it’s no wonder the rest of the developed world sees the US as dumb as a bag of rocks. It’s just an unreal circus looking from the outside.
We’ve seen a bonanza of quack medicine in the US over the last few decades. Homeopathy, chiropractory, ivermectin, gay conversion therapy, MyPillow, sci-fi style medbeds… All this shit getting pushed hard by con-artists who suffer little to no pushback and reap enormous financial returns from a gullible audience. And that sets off a vicious cycle of more nefarious advertisements, more hoaxes, more political enablement, and more people lured to their deaths for the profit of others.
Americans aren’t simply stupid by their nature. They’re deliberately and systematically misinformed over entire lifetimes by a well-financed propaganda machine.
The anti-vaccine movement is easily the biggest tragedy of our time. The consequences have not yet hit in earnest.
follow guidance on COVID-19 provided by medical authorities
My, what a gentle way to retell events. It was just guidance. That’s all. Just guidance.
Unrelated story: I know somebody who went to a private christian school. He tells me that he probably would have remained fairly neutral on religion …if not for the experience of having Jesus rammed into his cranium on a daily basis. He is now a rather staunch athiest. A few of his classmates have a similar experience. It’s as though forcing shit onto people can lead to them closing off from whatever it is that you’re trying to force onto them. Totally unrelated to what I said above though. Don’t overthink it.
So you’re basically saying you’re an anti-vaxxer and you think taking vaccines is a religion?
Not really, and not really. But my views have shifted in ways I never would have expected over the last four years.
If lemmy sees this and wants to use me as a punching bag, I’d understand.
I’ve considered many times initiating the topic, but each time I just don’t envision the conversation being productive.
We know what “guidance” meant here to non-anti-vaxxers. So yeah, taking the opportunity to turn it into a weird cryptic statement will get you this kind of reaction.
“About 15% of registered voters are stupid” isn’t exactly news.
These idiots are not only harming themselves and their children, they’re harming and sometimes killing others who are medically prevented from receiving vaccinations. These scumbags are literally spreading disease.
Actually it’s worse than that, if you have enough unvaccinated people in an area you’ll increase the viral load received by the local population. Vaccines raise immunity significantly, but don’t make you fully immune. If you experience enough of a viral load despite being vaccinated you can still get sick. This is how outbreaks occur and why we’re seeing them in low vaccination communities. These viruses then spreads to others that shouldn’t normally get the virus. So in short it harms everyone including those vaccinated.
Plague rats.
Always hearing about ~30 of GOP, followed by the dumbest shit.
Lets see here…
Rabies => nearly 100% death rate, and it’s only pretty recently it’s not 100% with modern non vaccine treatments.
Rabies Vaccine => 100% effective at preventing death.
That number is… eerily close to the percentage population estimated to be hardcore unshakeable Trumpers.
I guess 20 years ago this was a scandal
Another factor in Obama’s favor at the time that Rogers didn’t mention is that the original Republican candidate, Jack Ryan,[6] had been forced to suspend his candidacy after his divorce and custody records were released to the press, revealing that he had taken his former wife, actress Jeri Ryan,[7] to various sex clubs (including, in at least one case, a bondage club) and tried to have her perform sex acts on him out in the open.[8] Keyes was the GOP’s last-minute replacement on the ticket after the sordid details of Ryan’s divorce came out.
I suppose it’s good news that this belief hurts them the most, but it’s also a public health problem.
Yeah, their children will be wracked with disease complications and the whole country will be on the hook to help care for them.
Even worse, it forms a reservoir of disease that the most vulnerable of the population, those who have not/cannot be vaccinated, will suffer tremendously from.
Great and terrible example of the power that the right wing media bubble has on people and the damage it can cause. This isn’t a political issue or a matter of opinion. This is objective and scientific, with extensive real world evidence of vaccines eradicating contagious diseases.
Vaccines are perhaps the single greatest public health breakthrough next to basic sanitation. People have been convinced of an objective, scientific falsehood that puts their own children and the public at large at risk of disease and death. This is brainwashing, full stop.
Antivaxxers existed before COVID, but they were the fringe. It’s now a mainstream Republican belief manufactured out of thin air because COVID was bad for Trump politically and any improvement in the pandemic post-election was good for Biden. The stark partisan split proves it.
Vaccines shouldn’t be political. What is wrong with some Republicans?
They’re weird.
My theory is that it’s a combination of lead poisoning from going to NASCAR races (which still used leaded gas until 2007 or so) and right wing media indoctrination, mainly Fox News.
My theory is that it’s a combination of lead poisoning from going to NASCAR races (which still used leaded gas until 2007 or so) and right wing media indoctrination, mainlyFox News.FTFY
They figured out how to weaponize science-illiteracy like many authoritarians before them.
It’s the group with the least information. They’re morons.
I can start but I think there’s a character limit
Better just list what isn’t wrong with them, because it’s a much shorter list.
Here, I’ll show it to you:
Total embrace of the paranoid style of politics.
A couple decades ago, these people would be ranting about how the reds are adding fluoride to the water to make American patriots infertile.
Previously, the paranoid style was less prominent. By acquiring control of large sectors of the media, a strategically important asset, they have widely propagated conspiratorial thinking at a scale that has never been seen before in the USA.
It’s not always political, but it’s always stupidity, and stupidity is worse on one side than the other.
You know, like facts having a liberal bias.It’s part of “don’t trust gubment”.
Nah, they might repeat that as a talking point but they’re down with fascism, just like they’ll bitch and moan about the pharmaceutical companies having a profit motive to lie without wanting to remove the profit motive from healthcare.
They’re just liars and hypocrites who want their team, Team Racists and Bigots, to have total control and never forget it.
The good news is that number will go down over time.
Make Polio Great Again.
Owning the libs with Mumps.
This one can actually work though. Vaccines don’t make you 100% immune from diseases (it also depends on the individual as well).
There’s this constant 30-35% of America. Get better lower third god damn.
15-20%, since less than half of the US votes republican.
Considering the number of unregistered and independent voters… Very well could be less than that.
