A story about vaccines and consequences. :'(

Jul 28, 2026 5:04 PM

VerboseDood61

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#VaccinesWork

#MeaslesComeback

#VaccinateYourKids!!!

Thank you.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I take vaccines because I don't want someone to say..."Did you hear that guy got offed by something he coulda prevented? What a moron!" Or have some new variant kill me off and it gets named after me... all sorts of very silly/selfish reasons!

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What do we expect?

1 month ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

You can almost hear the neurons misfire in the area where the brain worm was crawling around in.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My parents were in their late 70's when covid hit - they both took the vax as soon as it was available. They were around when polio was a thing and "they" didn't ask - they came to the schools, and everyone got the shot, fuck your feelings. They remember what it meant to have something that could save you, so no argument. My brother on the other hand...Maple Maga and probably would've been in Ottawa back when those mothertruckers were faking their misplaced outrage.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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It seems remembering history is an impossible ask for people.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm not annoyed they die. I'm annoyed they are plague rats. I have started calling them Typhoid Mary in online interactions and if I ever hear it in real life I'm wondering how it is going to go over because I will keep saying it.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

To be fair, Typhoid Mary kept working as a cook because she HAD to. There weren't many jobs for an Irish woman at the time. Mary Mallon could have worked in other industries or been provided for - like other asympomatic carriers were. But they failed to do anything for her, so she ended up infecting people while trying to survive.

It's something to think about, in regards to how little was done as far as economic relief for everyone during the lockdown and afterwards.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"My immune system is strong."

You know how immune systems get strong??
By dealing with bullshit. You deal with little bullshit so that later you can deal with bigger bullshit. Vaccines are 'bullshit'. Viruses are even BIGGER bullshit.

1 month ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 0

You can have the best immune system on the planet, but the HIV/AIDs virus is still going to kill you (without big pharma keeping you alive everyday). Sometimes people think they are so smart, that it makes them invincible.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I actually thought about this the other day, about HIV. I remember what Chris Rock said about how they would never cure aids. Too much money in treatment. He was predicting - back in the 1990s - that we'd get to a point where people have HIV and live more or less normally, as long as they keep paying for the medication. "Man, my AIDS is acting up today!"

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I got my COVID vaccine as soon as it was available from the VA, my wife also a vet. refused to get hers but thankfully she agreed to let our kids choose for themselves and they chose to be vaccinated. She had COVID at least 4 times, I got it once, and the kids didn't get sick at all.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

A big part of the problem is that vaccines have been _too_ effective. The vast majority of people have no concept of how fragile life used to be. The "you're not stronger than a virus" doesn't land because they didn't live through a time when 25% of people didn't even survive childhood. They think they're safe from serious disease without actually understanding why.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Notice how his belief about vaccines is based on his estimation of his own "strength" and how (for men) that ties to self worth. You cannot argue against that without also implying he is weak, (immune system and generally). I think you see overlap with MAGA because they are also tying their beliefs into their ego. I think "identity fusion" is the technical term.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I beg anyone who disputes virology and epidemiology to just take a casual stroll in any cemetery. You can literally see the child mortality rate written in stone. Vaccinate. Also, if you're so sure, write a paper, get it peer-reviewed, and collect your Nobel prize. Otherwise, sit down and shut your bitch ass up.

1 month ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

"but AHA, the Nobel committee are part of the conspiracy!!!"

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It was all set up by Big Gravestone to sell more carved granite.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

this guy fake news

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

An attack from team plastic. How predictable.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I stopped arguing and started laughing when these people died.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lost alot of friends because of it. My dad has asthma and during peak covid was told I was being an ass hole for not wanting to hang out. Apparently the whole social distancing and not wanting to potentially put my dad in the hospital wasn't a good enough excuse...

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I honestly don't give a fuck if someone refuses to take a vaccine and they die from a preventable illness anymore.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just don't want to get sick from their monumental fucking arrogance.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I had someone try and explain to me how they think the medical industry killed us instead of refusal to collaborate with people trained to keep us alive.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

'jesus blessed us with a baby after he sent us to that fertility clinic'

1 month ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Lesbian couple had triples after invitro. They were born 4months premature and spent close to a year in the hospital. 1 died at 11 months old. The other 2 are home. 1 needs a heart surgery that only 2 surgeons in the country are skilled at. That baby needs 24hr care. The other one has severe medical problems as well. "They are God's miracles". How do they even remotely get to that conclusion?

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It drove me nuts, my FIL wouldn't get the shot because "I don't go anywhere". Meanwhile, I'm taking my son or myself in and out of hospital multiple times a month and then visiting him because Mrs Barbarian knew he was close to the end as it was. I did NOT want to be the one who gave him COVID y'know?

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The sister of my ex and her husband

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Your ex and her husband share a sister?

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I worked the entirety of covid in the ICU. A little part of me died day by day, month by month. When these people were informed that they were going to need to be intubated - and that it was quite likely that they were not going to survive even with the tube - it was not uncommon for some of their last words to be a request for the vaccine.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I remember here in Coeur D Alene, ID one of our mega pastors was on air during COVID, yelling it was a hoax, faith in Jesus would heal you, Fauci was a terrorist, etc.

The minute that fucker couldn't stop coughing we checked into the hospital, was soon on ICU, in a ventilator, and unfortunately survived. The minute he got out he was back to thanking his faith Jesus, saying masks were a plot to destroy the USA, etc.

I always wonder how many people he killed and profited from.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

My immune system is strong.

And well informed.

Because I get the vaccines.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Two guys I work with in 2021. Their immune system was strong! Both died in the fall regretting everything. Left behind teenage children and wives who were unprepared.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

give them a different argument that they might understand. they have an immune system, sure do. it's like the sheriff or the marshal. they have deputies, all the little cells that go around looking for the threats and try to take them out of action. what's missing? the wanted poster. that's what the vaccine is, the wanted poster telling the marshal and his deputies what to look out for. it doesn't replace the immune system. it warns the immune system what to look out for. try that.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

When I told my dad we were having a baby girl he cried with happiness. Two years later he still hadn't met her because his girlfriend refused to let him get the COVID shot.

He finally got it, and has flown here to meet her a few times, but he won't get the booster. And now he can't fly because of complications from shingles, because he didn't get that vaccination either.

1 month ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

To be fair, the chicken pox vaccine is relatively recent. Wasn't a thing when I was a kid.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And ppl have to pay out the ass for a shingles vaccine because capitalism, even though shingles can happen in young people.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You missed out (in the US) between ppl and have there.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

"In Ontario, the shingles vaccine, including Zostavax and Shingrix, is typically covered by the government for individuals aged 65 and older. **For those under 65 or not eligible for government programs**, costs vary by pharmacy or provider. Private consultations may cost between $50-$100, while the vaccine itself ranges from $150-$300 per dose." https://virtueskinclinics.com/how-much-is-the-shingles-vaccine-in-ontario.html

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Long before covid my nephew died of the flu. He had gotten the flu shot that year. My mom, his grandma, got angry and didn't get the flu shot for years. She was a nurse. She knew the stats on effectiveness. She knew he would have died with or without the shot and possibly faster without it. It wasn't until her hospital started requiring it of nurses that she got it again. I still don't understand her logic. Why blame the shot? It tried.

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

healthcare workers are a mixed bag. sure, they SHOULD know better, but some nurses are dumb, some doctors are dumb, some pharmacists are dumb, etc. sometimes they're smart overall but dumb about certain things. sometimes they're really smart about some things and dumb about others. sometimes the smart parts makes them oblivious to their own dumb parts. i don't think anyone can be smart about everything all the time

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Given the trauma of losing a child? I dunno... I mean, I agree she was logically wrong, but I definitely wouldn't put this in the same basket as morons blindly drinking from the Facebook conspiracy firehose.

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

That's a fair assessment. I never argued with her on it, but i never understood.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I no longer feel sadness or rage against these people, only contempt.

1 month ago | Likes 165 Dislikes 2

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1 month ago (deleted Jul 30, 2026 1:25 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Yeah... I'd assume it's worked at least once, but it's got a "fix conspiracy theorists with this one simple trick!" vibe which doesn't hang together. Misinformation just ain't that easy.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's exhausting, ain't it? 😮‍💨

1 month ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Every one of them that takes themselves out is one less pair of hands holding humanity back.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's one of the reasons they've been working so hard to rehabilitate Russia's image in conservative circles. So morons can pretend Russia is doing it for our own good.

1 month ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

It's not even a medical ethics issue? He just asked her a question about what she'd thought about. She came to her own conclusions.

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1 month ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

The most hilarious thing is that he's not entirely wrong, although they likely do it for different reasons.

1 month ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Ironically, the new theory is probably pretty close to the truth of things.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That story is legendary why I switched to not fighting the conspiracy theory [which is a fruitless task] but of simply adding a deeper layer to the conspiracy "the real truth they tried to hide" that turns the conspiracy theorist against the original goal of their pet conspiracy theory.

Using Planatir and Pete Theil [triggers their homophobia - against Project 2025 !]
to turn MAGA against the Administration
The Deep State infiltrated the gummit, and they'll be the ones coming for your gunz...

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't even think that's a conspiracy. I think that's just plain fact. Someone is funding the tens of thousands of antivax bots.

1 month ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

You might be right. The IRGC has been relying on a social media campaign to distract from its human rights violations and assorted evils. Corporations are CONSTANTLY astroturfing for whatever their latest product is. Though I do have to ask if you have any theories as to who would be funding the antivax bots. Why would they do that; what do they hope to gain?

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It was in the comment I was replying to. Russia or China would be the most likely sources of the anti-vax bots. But it's not impossible it's someone else. But, like your example of the IRGC, generally speaking, mass amounts of bots seem to usually be part of government campaigns.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, my question was: WHY? What would Russia or China hope to gain? The only theory that comes to my mind is that China wanted to deliberately maximize the number of deaths of U.S. civilians.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Anyone who's not in extreme denial knows that Russia has been actively using propaganda against Americans for years, because they want to destabilize us. China is more of an unknown, although they certainly also profit indirectly by taking over markets when the US pisses off other countries too much and their citizens stop buying American goods.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Israel's in the top 3 with the other 2 countries for likely source.

4 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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"My immune system is strong."

Anyone saying this does not know what a vaccine is.
Vaccines don't fight the virus. They teach your immune system how recognize the enemy so your immune system can fight it.

Thats it.

Used to be we killed the enemy virus and showed his dead body to the immune system so they could recognize it next time. Sometimes we needed a live enemy but weakened to a safe level to do the job. That was a bit more dangerous as the enemy was still alive.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

2/3
Covid. We don't even show the immune system a dead enemy body. Not even dead body parts. No virus involved. We are showing blueprints of the virus protein spikes so the immune system can see what they look like without any exposure. The immune system is now ready to recognize it should the real thing show up.

Its the safest a vaccine has ever been.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Just to be clear: the COVID-19 vaccines, ultimately, show the immune system "body parts" of the virus, namely the spike proteins. The "blueprints" we send inside trigger normal cells to produce COVID-19 spike proteins. The immune system then sees these spike proteins and starts mounting a defense, and then remembers. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/different-types-of-covid-19-vaccines/art-20506465

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

3/3
The immune system is strong yes. But it will not fight a virus it does not know is a problem until it becomes a problem. At that point you started the fight late.

A vaccine lets you fight it as soon as it shows up, before it gets a chance to build its numbers in your body. Vaccines don't fight. They just show your body what to fight to give you that very important head start.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Vaccines are the instructional seminar on how to deal with a very real problem before you experience it firsthand and would have to try and figure out what the problem is and how to deal with it while you're panicking and the problem is still doing damage.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

4/4. added.
And yes. I know people who died. Family's of said people still don't believe in vaccines. They lost loved ones for no reason.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My brother had a relative die in his own house, and still sneers at the Covid vaccine.

...Then again, the relative he lost was his mother-in-law, and he HATED her... so... *shrugs*

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought I had a strong immune system. I rarely get sick. Like, a sore throat every 6 months or so. It was my belief.

Then I was presented with the gift of becoming an uncle, and the baby would arrive, sick from kindergarden, sneeze into my eyeballs, and I'd be sick as a dog for two weeks. Two weeks was when the niece would return, so she'd arrive, sneeze into my eyeballs, and I'd be sick for another two weeks. I eventually told my brother I loved him and I loved my niece, but after two months

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I got the Pfizer vaccine after I recovered from Covid. I have a very strong immune system as well... which is WHY I got the vaccine. I was genuinely shocked that Covid hit me that hard. ME, of all people.

When antivaxers called Covid "just like the flu," I would tell them... they're technically not wrong. "It's Superflu. It's flu that left its parents on Krypton. It's flu that got hacked by a character editor and all its stats set to max. You don't want to fight it without the vaccine to help."

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Kids are plague rats. I was on a plane and seated in front of us was a family with a toddler. The kid suckes on her whole hand and coughed that gross open moouth cough they do. Of course I got sick.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

of being sick I needed some me space.

Anyway, it was an effective lesson on how strong my immune system was.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

1 month ago | Likes 246 Dislikes 3

Fighting stupid with stupid.

1 month ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Fuck it, if it gets stupid people to vaccinate im for it

1 month ago | Likes 136 Dislikes 0

Sounds like Big Potato is spreading lies again.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I like this because not only does it get them vaccinated while still feeling they won, it also get them to accept there's a good part to the vaccine.

1 month ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

Plus, they get a potato

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Does it tho?

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They think the vaccine will protect you from getting the illness, but also causes autism.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Need to stick de. magnets in that ther potater and fry up em chips befores thay make in yer body

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Potatoes have great homeopathic benefits, not this but I would accept this since it's harmless and gets the desired task done and becomes superstition. I don't care if you have to stand on your head for a vaccination while chugging hot water if it makes you feel better about science. Potatoes are for eye inflammation btw

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Potatoes are only good at absorbing salt in a stew if you over salted it. It does nothing for shots.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 15

Cool, downvotes for saying something factual. Stay classy Imgur.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

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1 month ago (deleted Aug 6, 2026 1:50 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

I've been around a long time. Ive seen the origins of banana for scale but also know we can also use Juan if its big enough. Guitars for tempature is also a unit of measurement that was once acceptable.

I remember the before times. Times of Secret Santa and Sarah. Imgur camping trip. The sun was brighter then and the sky was a darker blue.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Anti-vax nutjobs will believe magnets cure headaches and garlic cures cancer, so the potato isn't too farfetched.

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The point is there are ways of getting anti vaxxers to take vaccinations that may require some anti stupidity measures.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I'd call it more counter-stupidity. Like lighting a counter-fire.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No shit, Sherlock.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

If a potato works like that, why wouldn't it suck the virus out of you when you get ill?

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

Only works on needle wounds, they say it very clearly.

1 month ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

complicated science reasons, that's why.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's where you EAT FRENCH FRIES.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

American Fries!

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The virus is alive and natural and can fight off the potatans. But unnatural toxins from big pharma react with potatan and become neutralized. This also disables any microchips that big pharma may have slipped in there. Make sure to keep potatoes away from any circuit boards you care about, btw.

1 month ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Be careful with the microchips and potatoes tho. I once met a lady in a deeply bored shaft with much to say on the topic.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The issue is, vaccines work so not a lot of people have actually witnessed what life was like before that. So we get mass amounts of misinformation about how they don't work because they're not actively eradicating anything. They're doing their job perfectly, so we never have to see it.

1 month ago | Likes 360 Dislikes 2

I think some people experienced covid.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Another big part of the issue is, putting your fingers in your ears and going "lalala" is 99% effective.

So most antivaccine nutjobs experience no personal consequence for not vaccinating.

1 month ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

I think there is also a small window from where someone could (not guaranteed) have devastating outcomes and then realize their devastation is their fault. But we we see if someone's kid dies they often double down more, since they didn't die they still dont question

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

An 87-year-old would have seen the effects of polio firsthand, and probably got vaccinated for smallpox when he was a kid.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The issue is we put someone in charge of American’s health that thinks Hollywood pseudoscience and LA fad diets and health crazes are real healthcare.

1 month ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Not to mention an admitted heroin addict with a brain worm.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My family has graves going back to the 1870s in some small almost abandoned cemetery in a field in the Midwest. The place is littered with stones for people, many my family, ages 1-5 with diseases like scarlet fever, measles, and more. I tell anyone who will listen, we have traveled this road of no vaccines before, and its answer is written plainly in stone.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Like the idiots complaining about I.T. It's, "Nothing works. What are you good for?" one day, but the next, "Nothing breaks. What are you good for?" Most people are incredibly arrogant about things they know nothing about. Everything they don't know is easy in their tiny minds.

1 month ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

As the great philosopher Pippi Longstocking once said "I've never done this before, so I think I can do it".

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We are starting to see what not getting the measles vaccine is causing in the USA (and sometimes on a much smaller scale in religious communities in the Netherlands). We just have to get those numbers up. Maybe half a dozen dead newborns isn't waking people up yet. Those are rookie numbers, but we'll get there. (obligatory /s)

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was also having the head of a Country actively promoting conspiratorial and contrarian thinking during the start of a pandemic.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Fun fact, India did not eradicate polio until 2016. It's a shame the anti vaxxers can't just look at other countries for real time results. I know history is hard, but this happened in their lifetime.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just like working in IT

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This is one of those things that sounds right but I suspect is somehow complete horseshit.

We all have the same resources (mostly, I know there's socioeconomic disparities). It didn't take my SIL ending up on oxygen (She did cause she was "my immune system is strong" stupid) to know vaccines work. And we have experts informing us as well.

The issue is, some people are just fucking dumb and others are manipulative. And these same people remain dumb in the face of experience.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Well, people are going to learn going forward. And they'll pay a lot of money for those lessons. Baby coffins aren't cheap!

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

But at least you can get them in Frog Green, or Fire Engine Red.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Even worse, vaccines work amazingly well, but you need to understand some pretty subtle statistics to really appreciate this fully. Some vaccinated people will get ill and die, and many unvaccinated people don't get ill, or get ill and survive. That's the anecdotal evidence people see in their immediate surroundings.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This!!!! My cousin got polio as a child (remote area); while he survived, it seriously disabled him for the rest of his life and although he did his best to keep trying it has been fucking rough dude. The fucked up thing is the vaccine had been around for some while, at his time of birth, just not available there due to it being a low income, remote area. Nowadays when i see anti vax stuff i get so triggered. "No public health safety for me, hope youre not immuno compromised"- cunts

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Like, you dont even realise how much cuz and fam wished it had been available to them. And these people now just ignornantly turn their nose up at medical care, unaware of how much privilege theyve experienced to simply be in a position where they can a) decide to reject this care, b) know that if they get "the disease" theyll still have access to care, and c) be so far removed from any of the diseases, that no one theyve ever come across has has any of them. As a species were so fkn cooked

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah, the whole "Go look at an old cemetery and see all the children's graves" thing. This shit WORKS, and the evidence is quite literally written in stone.

1 month ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 0

Man. As an archaeologist who occasionally has to document older cemeteries, including disused historic cemeteries, smaller family plots and such, The amount of child graves I see.

Nothing sobers you up more than walking into some rural cemetery that hasn't been on a map in the last 100 years and seeing almost a quarter of the headstones having little lambs on them.

1 month ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

Assuming you’re trying to explain your point to rational people sure

1 month ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

...? We did this in school. School trip to the cemeteries and reading children's headstones. Died of measles. Dies at birth. Teacher told us to look for a headstone that shared our name. Literally people need to go look at cemeteries

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah but my point being folks don’t believe physical evidence anymore. Especially the maga/anyi-vax circles

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Anti-vax. Stupid fat fingers

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To mangle an expression, "You can lead a conservative to college. But you can't make him think."

1 month ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

I met that guy. Got a bachelors in environmental science. Works in hazmat cleanup. Thinks the earth is flat and global warming is a hoax

1 month ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

The things some of the oncology nurses I worked around believed...

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There's a quote I remember from futurama. Goes something like this "If you do things right, people may not know you've done anything at all." And I think about that a lot.

1 month ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

That's evidenced with the hookworm thing too I think

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

See also: the Y2K bug which turned out to be “a non-event” (because of all of the work done during the late 1990’s).

1 month ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

The guy in Office Space, that was his job, fixing the 2 digit year place holder. If I remember correctly

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

See also: the hole in the ozone layer

1 month ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

See also: acid rain and forests dying (lead-free gasoline)

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Dont forget the Vaccines cause Autism movement got a massive kick because a corrupt British doctor was paid to invent a link....

1 month ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

And people ignore the context. Wakefield was paid to discredit one method of vaccines in order to push for a different, more expensive method! He wasn't even antivax!

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lets make sure we have all the context though... a different more expensive method he was working on and would have profited from! Oh and his business partner was a discredited doctor who stole medications and Injected children wirh blood products

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As an autistic person, my takeaway from that whole thing as a reason for vax hesitancy is that even before we get into the whole Obviously It's Bullshit thing, even if it wasn't, the overall message is "I'd rather my children die than be like YOU." and like first of all WOW, and second of all, fuck you Karen.

1 month ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

What might play into this was how autism was perceived. In media, it was mostly screaming children who bashed their heads against walls and were nonverbal. Others were just deemed "they are the way they are".

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

These days we have "high-functioning", but before that they had "he was fuckin weird but I kept on thrashin him until he acted right."

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I just think of that one scientist on tiktok whose married to a historian and she posted a vid that said "if my kids are autistic it's not cause of aspirin or vaccines .. it's cause he's the father" pan to him explaining to a stranger why German helmets had the spike on top (for the plume to be attached btw)

Yeah. My wife uses that video all the time with me (pan to me explaining this video, why tech security is bad, why coding is good, why AI is bad - I'm a dev btw ..)

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Computer sciences with "fox" in the name... Hmmmmmmmmm ;)

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah lol. It's a so true statement about the tech world but I, despite the name (and often a fox on my avatar on most sites) I'm not. You can tell cause I never take PTO during the cons lol

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Right! As an autistic person, I sit at home some evenings in the home I own, paid for with the Job I have, Planning my weekend D&D sessions with my Nerdy friends thinking... and youd rather dead kids over me?

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I'm autistic and a major financial and likely emotional drain on family. But god damn it. I deserve to live just as much as anyone else.

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That just highlights how society itself is so hardwired to think of Neuro divergence was "being broken / wrong" that rather than building systems to help we instead do nothing.

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But, the thing is, you are still valid, you are worthy of love, and you are an awesome person. The problem is with society, not you.

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