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Considering current antivax movement, it is not unusual for people to get sick with polio, even some got paralyzed. It is hard to understand for me how people

• arlcode 3y ago
  Complacency and political/financial benefits for some of the people paddling that shit, a world where public policy is only a team sport and everybody's opinion on expert topics is equally "valuable". I really hope we find a way out of this before to long. In the end (polio) vaccines work and praying/magic doesn't, so I'm positive we will be able to learn the same lessons our ancestors did.
• bequanna 3y ago
  Antivax movement? Are you assuming everyone who was not interested in the COVID vaccine just plain doesn’t believe in vaccines?
  • ponector 3y ago
    There is a difference in "not interested in receiving COVID vaccine" and fighting against vaccination in general, refusing to vaccinate children with mandatory shots like MMR or polio.
    • bequanna 3y ago
      Yes, there absolutely is a difference and the second group is incredibly small. I think it is important to make that distinction.
      • ponector 3y ago
        It is not small. Have you heard that vaccines cause autism? It is a popular believe of antivaxxers. So popular that >25% of kids in London are not vaccinated. 1/4 is huge and could compromise herd immunity. > Only 74% of children under five in London have received both doses of the MMR vaccine – 9.1 points lower than in 2013–14.