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I suspect you’re getting downvotes because your paragraph about a meme leading to people being immunocompromised could be interpreted either: as being opposed
by mercutio2 7y ago
I suspect you’re getting downvotes because your paragraph about a meme leading to people being immunocompromised could be interpreted either:
as being opposed to the meme that vaccines should be mandatory, or:
as being opposed to the meme that vaccines immunocompromise people.
I initially read it as the former, because your first sentence was critical of mandatory vaccines. Then I read your other posts, and realized you were likely making an argument about how this is a subtle problem, where we had an effective cultural/medical system before which avoided making anything mandatory, which is good because it’s better to not be authoritarian when we can avoid it, but a meme broke that effective system.
Is that right?
- pjc50 7y agoBasically yes. I'm opposed to vaccines being mandatory unless it's "absolutely necessary" - but it appears to be becoming necessary because the false meme "vaccines cause autism" is very infectious. But making vaccination mandatory doesn't stop the spread of the meme. So political pressure is going to build against vaccination, and that will have all sorts of weird and ugly side effects of making anti-science parties more popular. I'm also saying we need to develop better public health methods against dangerous memes. Whether that's vaccination of the mind or breaking off a few pump handles.