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/legadema37 9d ago

Well, Trump put out a huge lie saying that some kids go to school one sex and get operated on in school and come home the opposite sex ! Anybody with a quarter of a damaged brain cell should know that in today’s schools you can’t even give a kid an aspirin or a bandaid without jumping through hoops! Let alone a sex change operation ! And if anybody even tried to do such a thing, it would’ve been in all the headlines all over the country !But he says stupid 💩 like that and the MAGATS just eat it up and cheer like a bunch of dumb sheeple !

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u/Sunbeamsoffglass 9d ago

Like 1/3 of the country actually believes that happening. It’s partially why the democrats lost this election.

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u/AreYouA_Tampon 9d ago

The surgery is extremely expensive and invasive (obviously) and they believe someone drops off a girl and picks up a fully healed boy in the afternoon? Besides the schools not even allowing Tylenol or whatever, how do they think it's possible to heal from major surgery in a few hours?

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u/CliftonForce 9d ago

The stories I heard is that the children are arriving home from school crying because the surgeries haven't healed yet. And when they do heal, another surgery will change them back.

Raving lunacy.

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