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The irony about the whole covid vaccine debacle is that it's greatest negative impact, by a many orders of magnitude, is brain damage done to those who drank th
by Workaccount2 3y ago
The irony about the whole covid vaccine debacle is that it's greatest negative impact, by a many orders of magnitude, is brain damage done to those who drank the anti-vax cool aid. Desperate for a win after pretty much none of their prophecies came true, we're now stuck with a huge population doubling down on "vaccines are bad".
- jfengel 3y agoI really don't think there was any way to avoid that. This is a whole new set of antivaxxers. The previous antivaxxers are still out there, but they were a tiny crank minority. This new set of antivaxxers is a purely political statement -- a politics that had already been increasingly divorced from science for decades. There is an enormous overlap with creationists and climate denialists. They had been primed to reject any science that they didn't want to believe. Even before the vaccine, they first denied that COVID was a genuine threat, and then touted various alternative "cures". I suppose there is one real change, in that these new antivaxxers are also being influenced by the old antivaxxers into rejecting all kinds of vaccines. And that's sure gonna kill a buncha people. But zoomed out a bit, I believe that the real problem is a generalized paranoia, of which this is just a tiny new piece.
- exe34 3y agoNatural selection should phase them out of their gene puddle after a while...