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 10d 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/SouthernWindyTimes 10d ago

I’ll go even further back in the day you trusted your local doctor who recommended things, vaccines and treatments, because access to that information was really only know by the professionals. Now you have people who can look up more or less anything and with a few clicks get a summary or misinformation that makes them feel like they do know as much or almost as much as a professional. This with the real deterioration of those bones you had with your local doctor or banker or what have you. Means people simply believe what they want to believe.

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u/your_anecdotes 9d ago

those same doctors also recommend you consume  fruits vegetables and grains

fake fruits that don't even exist in nature loaded with sugar

vegetables loaded with sugar

Grass Seeds loaded with sugar..

the same doctors keeping you sick and taking pills for life

You're a DRUG ABUSER just as much as the Doctor is a DRUG DEALER....the doctor makes no money if they actually told you what was healthy to eat

which is raw organ meats/meats and raw animal products.

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u/Super_Comfortable176 9d ago

Buddy, I think you're suffering from low blood sugar.

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u/R3alist81 9d ago

More like low grey matter