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‘He is one of us!’: US anti-vaxxers rejoice at nomination of David Weldon for CDC
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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I wish anti-vaxxers would think really hard and realize that 99% of them received the MMR (and others) vaccine as a child.
Numb fucks don't understand that it's vaccines that let them live as healthy as they have.
And how many still receive flu vaccine every year? I'll bet that while many are spouting anti-vaxxer bullshit out of one side of their mouth, they're quietly scheduling the yearly shots out of the other.
Can't throw around lies when sick in bed.
The problem is that no one knows all the times they didn't catch a horrible disease because of vaccines. It's impossible to ever know. But every time they seen anyone with autism it reinforces their ridiculous belief that they're related.
I haven't met any anti-vaxers who still get flu shots unless it's the people who are specifically against the covid vaccines because of them being mandatory and "experimental". But yeah they definitely benefitted from getting those shots as a kid and even if they didn't they still benefitted from everyone else getting them due to herd immunity.