In case it’s not painfully obvious, this is a parody account.
The weirdest thing about this whole antivaxx movement is that it has spread to Europe too. Greece has conscription, so 90%+ of greek males have served in the greek military. And almost all of them got vaccinated with a trillion vaccines, including ones against gozzila(you can never be too safe). And thats on top of whatever vaccines babies usually receive.
Noone complained about it. There was some antivaxx movement before but with covid, everyone went crazy with the vaccines. Suddenly vaccines were evil, noone knew what they had in them, it’s a global conspiracy. Everyone became a vaccine expert.
America needs to stop exporting their brain rot, we already have enough on our own.
You say it spread to Europe from the U.S., but it’s kind of the other way around. The whole anti-vaxx movement was—although not started—heavily popularized by Andrew Wakefield, a medical scientist who very publicly brought criticism against the MMR vaccine (with an unethical study which lied about the condition of many of his patients) about it potentially causing autism. Remember, not too many years ago being autistic was seen as something so much worse than it is. In the meantime, he was being very privately paid off to produce a study for a lawyer who wanted proof that a certain vaccine could have caused medical complications, so he could win a law suit. There was a huge vaccine scare in Europe about MMR, and eventually it spread to America. However, as the anti-MMR-vaccine idea spread, it grew to become anti-vaccine. Wakefield, now rejected from the scientific community, had little other way to stay afloat financially than by pandering to his audience, shifting his message from anti-MMR to anti-vaxx.
Relevant video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc (seriously, great vid, please watch if you have the time)
Relevant book: https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Fooled-World-Deception/dp/1421438003 (seriously, great book, please read if you have the time)
Although if you’re talking about COVID vaccine fears, I know much less, it absolutely could have started in the U.S.
Stupidity, ignorance, and hysteria aren’t unique to America. The USA just has the loudest voice in traditional/social media.
No one complained about it because there wasn’t a national, or global, effort telling people to blindly rebel against it.
It’s the hive mind hardcore right mindset these days. Drum up something for the pawns to run around screaming and they will willingly volunteer their time, money, freedom, and lives so the elites running the movement can retain wealth and power
Don’t blame america, blame the media moguls
not all of them are american, in fact the worst of them is aussie
Nah mate, he’s been American longer than he was ever Aussie, he gave up our citizenship for the greater opportunities he’d have to exploit everyone from the US.
yeah, so rich people from other countries come to the us to make us look bad
see: elon musk
Of course they do, the US makes it so easy for them to be a piece of shit and successful.
For sure instead of having your child scarred for life from a vaccine like the picture shows, a mild case of death is preferable.
Stay safe out there, vaccines contain stuff with long words that sound dangerous. There are also many rumors that vaccines can cause all sorts of weird things you wouldn’t believe.
In case you wonder, this is sarcasm.
Reporting you for implying that I am willing to tolerate reading long words. Stop scaring me!
/S cuz I’ve had dumber posts of mine taken seriously.
No I report you! Look at the smart guy here, using fancy pantsy words like “implying”, as if that’s even a real word. ;)
Punctuation is for snobs! I hate you! With lurv of course.
If it helps, I have to admit, that if the punctuation is correct, it’s purely accidental. It’s kind of on a timer. ;)
I’ve been seeing that a lot here lately. Wait, I joined Lemmy like 3 days ago.
Just yesterday I was about to eat an orange from the supermarket, but then someone told me these contain (2R)-2-[(1S)-1,2-dihydroxyethyl]-3,4-dihydroxy-2H-furan-5-one. I mean seriously, I can’t even pronounce this - the question is who benefits from adding these chemicals to our fruits? The government?
Luckily for me though, I replaced oranges with a healthy dose of Cheerios™ and I’m feeling very healthy and refreshed.
Wash that down with a Diet Coca-Cola™. Vitamins keep the bubbles fizzy!
Oh no, I drank some Dihydrogen monoxide! I hope I don’t die, cases of death from Dihydrogen monoxide exposure are quite common
This joke never gets old. Just like unvaccinated children.
We should ban it! BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE! ANYONE WHO DRINKS IT DIES!
Chemist here, no clue what this was at first glance. Hell’s bells IUPAC names for organic molecules are ugly. It’s ascorbic acid.
That’s why we biologists don’t ever touch IUPAC names.
Does it come from an orange? Great, now it’s called orangy acid. Works fine for us.
What’s that? Sugar from a fruit? Fructose. Don’t bother us.
I love this.
The South African conspiracy crowd is crazy fucking stupid. It ranges from “Pokémon Go is from the devil” to “Apartheid wasn’t that bad, actually”.
They eat up the American conspiracies too. Why the fuck is 52 year old Margriet from Roodepoort in a QAnon Telegram group chat? Fuck knows
“Apartheid wasn’t that bad, actually”.
The "Apartheid wasn’t that bad, actually” crowd is by no means limited to the “conspiracy fallcy” scene in South Africa - a very, very large proportion of white liberal types in South Africa buys into this narrative without admitting to it even to themselves. There’s a good reason some refer to the DA as “National Party Lite.”
Because America’s #1 export is US culture.
I wish they chose taco trucks or baseball instead of believing Joe Biden is satanic vampire
The author here makes it sound like contracting mumps and/or encephalitis is a “choice.” But what they leave out, an important detail… like how about a child’s natural immunity?!? Besides, you don’t want an injection to cause autism or worse, a peanut allergy that deprives your young child from the joys of peanut butter jelly sandwiches for the rest of their life.
Realistically, aren’t we all a little tired of big pharma shoving these hard-to-pronounce ingredients and microchips into our God-given flesh?! So I challenge you, to do the research and truly decipher the right choice for your young children. It’s critically important; vaccine injuries can happen. Just look at what happened in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.
If you’re the real guy, I am so happy to see you here.
Even if he is the guy let’s not let this be like reddit where if someone else does the meme they get down voted. Anything reddit did can fuck off here in our new place.
My coworker’s cousin got a vaccine once and later they dropped their cell phone and cracked the screen. Coincidence, or proof of the evils of vaccination?
I can say for a fact that before I got my vaccines as a baby I had never experienced things like back pains and knee issues that I know face in middle age. People ignore the risks
Posting in a thread of people who took the Covid Vaccine. lmao.
Adding a bit of context here, prof Tim Noakes is swell known prof in South Africa, so it is a funny handle in two ways, I guess
Antivaxers are an absolute scourge on society.
Mild cases of death???
As in, they are not too serious.
I have a vax scar that looks exactly like this. It’s not the MMR as this tweet claims; I had that one too and there is no scar. This was a smallpox vax, which do commonly leave a mark, and I got it when I was five. I don’t remember, but I’ve been told I was sick for a week.
Clearly, I recovered. Maybe that colors my view on this issue, I dunno.
But to truly understand the position of the individual that tweeted this, go look up some pics of actual smallpox cases, and then visit Wikipedia to learn about how many die right off the bat (some with horrible variations like hemorrhagic smallpox) and how many others survive, many with only massive scarring, but others with lasting internal damage and little-understood post-viral syndromes.
And then, now that you have a better idea of what smallpox is, reflect on how these anti-vaxxers would literally rather have smallpox, and see their kids have smallpox, than brave a preventative vaccine that has worked well for over two hundred years in one form or another.
I will never understand that.
I have two theories.
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A bunch of these people are scared of needles and are looking for any excuse not to get a needle. They don’t want to feel alone so they spread lies so others don’t get it either.
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They want people die and get off on that.
I think its mostly snake oil sellers and their radicalized victims. The flatmate of my girlfriend was an anti vaccers. She bought some extract from local plants for a 100 € because the guy told her it would soak up the vaccine from the body when there will be mandatory vaccinations.
Of course there were no mandatory vaccinations, having some hobo made tincture working against an mRNA vaccine is clearly ridicilous and she could have collected these plants in the next park and made the extract with some high proof alcohol for less than 5€.
One of the leaders of the covid conspiracy movement in Germany fled to Tansanie having defrauded his followers of more than 10.000.000 €
If you look into conspiracy products it is insane. Some wooden pole with some Glass balls in it? Yeah thats some energy protector, only 6.000 €
You left out the troll farms run by the enemies of Western liberal democracy.
Some are really that irrevocably convinced that vaccines are the harmful thing. They don’t know how to question things properly and they end up following whatever lead they got hooked to. It’s a failure of modern education and society to fail to question things correctly. Questioning without logic or reason or being willing to accept you are wrong is unproductive at finding truth. However it’s a potent way towards confirmation bias.
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You know people say regardless how stupid it is, it’s not ethical to force a vaccine on someone. Okay fine. But I think anyone who refuses to be vaccinated (assuming there’s no medical reason), should spend their life in prison.
Nobody says you have to be forced to get a vaccine… bodily autonomy and all that. But you’re then making yourself into a public health hazard. So you need to be quarantined until you’re no longer a danger to society; so, until you either get vaccinated or die, you need to be separated from the rest of society.
Prison doesn’t feel right. It’d expose other prisoners and we’re responsible for their safety while incarcerated.
Maybe we could stick them all on an island somewhere?
