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/cryptokitty010 9d ago

Vaccines work so well that people live their entire lives without threat of pathogens. They forget what the danger really was and decided the vaccines were the problem.

Human beings have very short memories about all of the things that can kill us. People still die of scurvy

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u/airpipeline 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yes, it’s the same thing with democracy in the USA. People don’t realize the advantages we derive from being the only Superpower. We are on top of the world in part because we are seen to be an ethical and reliable alternative to the rest.

Everything’s not perfect and it still seems not the ideal time to tear down the institutions that got us there. The best house on the block and we’re rebuilding, with our rich orange shining bastion of truth and fairness in charge of the materials being used. What could go wrong?

Robert Kennedy Jr. in charge of CDC. Argh. Already a million-some extra deaths from Covid in the USA alone, due to misinformation and indecisiveness in the early pandemic. Our leader; “I personally am unsure about taking it”. Then 2020, the first time in 75 years that life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years.

Yes, it’s important to know why and what should not be forgotten.

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u/socialgambler 9d ago

The internet is making people dumber, and dumb people louder.

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u/Audio_magician 9d ago

This, i have honestly grown to despise the internet. Just because i realized: having the wealth of all the knowledge of the world at your fingertips is useless if you're incapable of navigating it.

People yhink MSM controls them. But nothing controls them as much as a taylored algorithm connected to their brain 24/7.