Title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it’s still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses.
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[Cueball, White Hat and Megan walking]
Cueball: I try to meet people where they are, but I have such a hard time with anti-vaxxers.
[Zoom out; a tree to the right is visible]
Cueball: The pandemic brought with it so much confusing stuff.
Cueball: Ambiguous data, weird tradeoffs, disagreements, dilemmas, and uncertainty.
[Zoom in on Cueball]
Cueball: It just feels like a miracle that the best and most effective intervention to reduce suffering also turned out to be one of the easiest and simplest.
Cueball: That never happens!
[Cueball, White Hat and Megan sitting around the tree]
Cueball: I hate that people are working so hard to make it complicated when it’s one of the few things in this world that isn’t.
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I think people are just afraid of injection in general. And someone took that small fear and turns it into conspiracies and what not.
As far as i know the fear of vaccines started growing because of Andrew Wakefield.
Andrew Wakefield developed a vaccine against measles, however the MMR vaccine was already on the market doing its job just fine. So how could he make sure that his vaccine was taken instead of the MMR?
He had to start lying. So he started to spread the notion that the MMR vaccine would cause autism. My memory hets fuzzy from here on but basically it was MMR vaccine causing autism because it would mess with gut bacteria and to prove that he was messing with data and his colleagues and until they realized what was happening the damage was already done. And over time the lie from Wakefield turned into the commonly known “vaccines cause autism”.
Hbomberguy has a very comprehensive video about it: https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc
Anti-Vaxx is more complicated than that. In Germany for instance it originates in the homeopathy and anthrosophy movements that are pseudo-science nonsense fueled by fearmongering against scientific medicine and science in general, sprinkler with other esoteric conspiracies and a good load of white supremacy.
So there is different sources and now it all mingles together because of the internet.
Antivaxxers are the same nutjobs who have now latched on to the muh ayylmao congressional testimony. The same people who shat on one authority figure (Fauci etc.) are now worshipping another (Grusch).
Because the one authority says to trust in science and it is complicated. The other authority says to just follow his gut and you dont need to bother with logic anyways because fuck nerds. Also you are so smart for listening to it and all the other people are dumb.
So of course the idiots like to listen to the second one.
Pick and choose science.
Some one claimed that they knew climate change was a hoax because there have been Ice Ages in the past.
So, you believe the scientist who tells you there was an Ice Age 60,000 years ago but don’t believe the same person when they tell you that climate change is real.
I told someone I don’t believe in their magical sky creature, I believe in science. They told me the “magical sky creature created science”, so then I asked why they are against science if their God created it?
Never got a response. Religion is just picking and choosing your way through life while using a magical sky creature as your scape goat.
That’s so easy to answer though. They’ve been using the explanation for a while.
“God made science to test our faith”.
At least that is consistent with the “god gave us free will to test if we are good” bullshit.
Darkwolf in the explain pages is a fucking retard. And he earned the slur. Antivaxxers are plague spreaders.
Agreed but let’s not call people slurs if they “earned it” lmao. Would you call a black person the n word if they did something particularly bad?
I have no expectation behind wolf’s actual mental impairment the same way the N word would expect it, since it exclusively only targets black people. So no, I shouldn’t use it, but using it doesn’t justify any other slur the way you imply, either lighter or worse.
And with that said, I’ll use it anyways. Because, fuck it, I despise people like that, double down time. Someone should take anyone who makes antivaxxer media or argues antivaxxer rethoric and institutionalize them IN THE MORGUE.
I’ll use it anyways. Because, fuck it, I despise people like that
The problem is not about the person you intend to insult “earning it” or not, the problem is that by your choice of insult, you’re implying that you also despise other mentally impaired people, no matter if they’ve done anything wrong.
Does it imply hate, the term? Or just limited cognitive capacity?
Both, and that’s the problem. The hate part isn’t even implicit, since they explicitly stated they are using the term because they despise the person they’re insulting. The implication of limited cognitive ability comes simply from the meaning of the word.
