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        • KoboldKomrade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          7 months ago

          To be fair, most people accepted vaccines in the early days. It really wasn’t until the 90s and Wakefield that vaccine denial started in the west. We should have publicly executed him for his quack theory. (Seriously the original theory is laughable, I don’t know how it got published. How the fuck does anyone believe “the vaccine puts holes in your bowels, which lets something leak out and causes autism”. “Oh and we tested 4 kids, and we selected them from a group that self reported.” ) We should be taking kids away from parents that refuse basic vaccines like MMR at this point.

          Vaccine denial only happens because of that shit, and the government doing evil shit with them, like hunting Osama and damaging trust.

            • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              7 months ago

              I wonder if there’s a cross-section of parents who want their kids to be engineers (or learn to code) but not autistic, or parents who think vaccines cause autism but are fine with it because they know autistic people in their life that are doing OK. It seems like the fear response strengthens the belief, but also causes them to reject autism that isn’t very high support needs.

              That said, there’s no correlation between vaccines and autism. I haven’t met a neurotypical engineer or programmer though

  • Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    just so I can have it spelled out, what she wants is to expose children to full blown measles, so they develop immunity. It’s not like some milkmaid shit where you give them cowpox to inoculate against chickenpox but with measles lite or something?

    measles causes brain swelling

    Maybe MTG has/d measles

      • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netMEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Also chicken pox is not something anyone should wish on their kids or anyone. It isn’t typically life threatening but it can be and it sucks ass. Parents believe that harming their children is the best way to raise them and then wonder why their kids fucking hate them

        • Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.netEnglish
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          7 months ago

          My mother got her immunization to chicken pox via intentional exposure when she was a young girl. I remember looking at the pox scars on her arms and neck when I was tiny, myself. My mom’s side of the family comes from some more backwoods places than where I’m from, and according to her exposure to chickenpox was done this way in the mississippi sticks.

          She had shingles flare up about 4 or 5 years ago, and it damn near wiped her off the map. Shingles is rough on those 60+.

          Vaccination’s are one of the greatest inventions to forward human life as has ever been seen. Thinking anything else is mind bottling.

            • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              7 months ago

              I also was exposed intentionally along with my brothers, and I think there is a capitalist critique in there somewhere.

              When one of us got the Pox, the kids had to stay home to prevent spread. This requires a parent or other child support to accomplish, which requires time and/or money that is uncompensated by the Capitalist. If each infection happened individually, that would mean a week or so is needed to take off work and/or child support per infection. Thus exposing all the kids meant that time was overlapped in a way that minimized the time workers (particularly women) were away from the workplace and thus could earn wages. It is yet another way families are exploited for the wealth of Capitalists.