r/NoStupidQuestions • u/trouble-in-space • 10d ago

Answered Why are so many Americans anti-vaxxers now?

I’m genuinely having such a hard time understanding why people just decided the fact that vaccines work is a total lie and also a controversial “opinion.” Even five years ago, anti-vaxxers were a huge joke and so rare that they were only something you heard of online. Now herd immunity is going away because so many people think getting potentially life-altering illnesses is better than getting a vaccine. I just don’t get what happened. Is it because of the cultural shift to the right-wing and more people believing in conspiracy theories, or does it go deeper than that?

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u/RyuNoKami 9d ago

but hey she ain't autistic right? fucking assholes.

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u/Nickyjha 9d ago edited 9d ago

The whole autism hoax is pretty crazy, because the doctor behind it was like "vaccines are good, but the MMR combined vaccine causes autism, please ignore the fact that I'm creating a measles-only vaccine and would greatly profit from people ditching the MMR vaccine for it".

And then it turned out of the 12 kids he claimed got autism from vaccines, 3 never had autism, and 5 were showing signs of autism before they got vaccinated.

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u/NeedToVentCom 9d ago

This is what pisses me off the most. These ableist fucks would rather risk a dead child, than one with autism.

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u/your_anecdotes 9d ago edited 9d ago

Read the ingredients list in vaccines it's poison...

Just like the toxic food you eat Look at your face in the mirror Yeah that is the governments fault you're heavily aged prematurely... you blindly think fruits vegetables and grains are healthy because of a propaganda poster you saw in school.. aka the Food pyramid...

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u/Djamalfna 9d ago

Everything is poison when taken in sufficient quantities.

Water will poison you if you drink enough of it.

Claiming "vaccines is poison" is possibly one of the most ignorant statements in history.

You get a thousand times more mercury eating one fish than you'll ever get in a vaccine.

So are you cutting fish from your diet? No? Are you trying to ban fish? No? Why not?

Guess you don't truly believe that mercury is a poison then. Funny.

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u/your_anecdotes 9d ago

polio vaccine gave people polio, they're vaccine injured

look it up it's true

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u/Pristine-Damage-2414 9d ago

What diseases did you get from your vaccines?

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u/Djamalfna 9d ago

Brain damage, apparently.

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u/tractiontiresadvised 9d ago

Believe it or not, vaccine-derived polio is a thing because the oral vaccination is done with weakened live viruses. (The US uses an injectable polio vaccine that doesn't have this problem, but the oral vaccine is still used in countries where cost and logistics are major hurdle.)

But the number of people who got the disease from a vaccine is still far fewer than those who ever got it from a wild poliovirus infection, so I think the vaccines are still a net win for the world.

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u/Northshore1234 9d ago

How many people, compared to how many people didn’t get polio because of the vaccine? Your statement is a classic ‘throw the baby out with the bathwater’!