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In reply to the discussion: Can you put down your pitchfork long enough to discuss the root causes of the anti-vax problem? [View all]whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)you lose interest and votes. You have a picture of Joe Biden. He will know that there was a massive public campaign to vaccinate in the 1960s. It was everywhere, posters, tv radio. And there were plenty of anti-vax people around back then.
Many of us remember some very bad outcomes - live vaccines that sickened thousands, many people died or became crippled. There were also ineffective ones.
Yet we still did it. But that was a very socialized medicine campaign. Something even many Democrats would object to.
Today - Democrats would insist PhARMA have incentives for running the same sort of campaign, we would insist that PhARMA get maximum profit and give them tax credits. Nevermind that it is just the right thing to do.
While vaccines were virtually free, now many clinics do not give them.
The costs have increased by thousands of percent - mostly because drug companies only want high margin pills which are just minor tweaks to old drugs only for the purposes of maintaining patent control.
Now the thing that I find hilarious is the self-righteous, pitch forkers spouting off like they are biochemists who are probably under immunized.
From 1957 to 1971 the measles vaccine was largely ineffective. Millions are at risk.
Yet here they are - spouting off like they know some shit.
I'd love to go one on one with an immune/antibody test and I have no doubt that the biggest hippie punchers in the crowd are the most vulnerable.
But you fail to understand this isn't about who is right or wrong. Of course vaccination is the right thing to do. This is an effort to understand what the fear is and conquer it with logic rather than hippie punching.
lol - all the big, tough, strong holier than thou types screaming "burn the witch".