How Collapsing Social Infrastructure Led to Everyone Becoming an Internet Medical Expert

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18. The larger argument is

anti-vax positions come out of the *same* broader culture of reaching for help and knowledge on the Internet, because public/institutional resources have broken down. Self-help breeds self-confidence, even if that self-confidence is later deemed unwarranted.

The rural vaccination coverage has largely been led by self-interested elites, who have not been leading health care coverage otherwise. I would hardly call that a bottom-up revolution in enlightenment. But the people who are trying to get the vaccinations done are so busy quashing the anti-vaxx conspiracy theories that they don't look at the little illiberalities and unconstitutionalities that go by in the process. If the GOP tried to get away with the same sort of the thing, we'd be pounding them over their hypocrisy.

Vaccination is good. Science is the end of education. We'd like to limit he measles outbreak. I hear you. Now can you hear me? The Vax Attackers have been rude and obnoxious. They make Democrats look bad. Their spam posts on DU make it look like the off chance of measles of IMMEDIATELY turning into a pandemic means more than #blacklivesmatter, which seems to be getting pushed off the forum all together. The eagerness to attack can be noted in the way both of my own posts have been jumpily reacted to as anti-vaxx positions - which they aren't. Vax Attackers need to dial it down because they apparently can't hear anything over the din of their own voices.