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A mix of both, the poverty creates some of this ignorance by lack of access to education. That people in the US choose to be ignorant despite having an educati
by carlmr 2y ago
A mix of both, the poverty creates some of this ignorance by lack of access to education.
That people in the US choose to be ignorant despite having an education happens, but it's rarer than where there is no education.
- more_corn 2y agoMy mother was educated. She bought into some misinformation and fear-mongering about modern medicine and rejected it entirely. No vaccines no doctors. Mostly it was fine till it wasn’t. I took myself to a doctor as a teen with bad strep. Not our doctor we didn’t have one. just a doctor. No insurance. They could see I was in rough shape. They just diagnosed me with strep (although I already knew that’s what it was) and sent me away with a prescription. I didn’t even realize how weird that was till much later. (That they saw me with no insurance and no previous relationship and no payment) My sister was in town once years later and my younger brother was in such bad shape she took him to a doctor. She swears to this day he would have died. Again strep. Misinformation is a big problem. People who buy into it put their kids at risk. When we allow purveyors of nonsense to thrive because “freedoms” we do everyone a disservice.