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‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more (www.nature.com)
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The result “blows the lid off of this idea” that such beliefs are held by only a fringe population of individuals who are uninformed or ideologically driven, says David Bersoff, head of research at the Edelman Trust Institute. “This is not like a small problematic group.”

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[–] 30 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Staggering number of people no longer have a living memory of anyone that lived and died in those times before vaccines and food safety.

Don't worry, reminders will come around again. They always do.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Most of us lived through 2020: saw cities shut down; hospitals using refrigerated trucks as morgues; literally millions of dead. Most of us then saw the vaccine roll out and all of that just went away.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    True that, but the number of people that are living examples of not being vaccinated are few and far between.

    I knew people in wheelchairs because they got polio as children..

    Couldn't miss that.

    Some of my southern cousins who were vaccinated with the Blood of Jesus, got covid and died and they're gone and it's a case for the familiies and the public of "out of sight, out of mind.."

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    My grandmother told me how when she was in school, each year some kids would not show up and just never come back.

    They had polio and were in Iron lungs or got a disease like measles and died.

    My entire family is vaccinated. The misery she told, no. Fuck that.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Unfortunately, anyone younger than you who won't have met the grandparents will only be getting that info secondhand.. and this is the point where generational amnesia takes over and people poo-pooh the warnings..

    My grandparents were children when the Great Depression hit and they saw tons of people not make it from sickness.

    My gran lost many childhood friends.

    I have to say, my great grandparents were very on-point with cleanliness and managing illnesses at home. No one on my entire family of that generation succumbed to the Spanish Flu that hit in the late teens to early 20's.

    Listen to the doctors, they see the consequences of those who do not. Yikes!

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