• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    Damn. If only there was a way to get protection against measles without having to get measles. Some sort of injection. That’d be useful.

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      also convinced govt of somoa to stop MEASLES VACCINATION, resulting in 86 children deaths. also drove his former wife to suicide.

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        I heard about him from a Behind the Bastards podcast a few years back. I knew he was a dumpster fire and was really surprised/not surprised he got a position.

        Surprised because he’s an idiot. Not surprised because it’s par for this administration.

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    The dems really need to appoint a shadow cabinet and hold press conferences with fact checks and useful advice about how to get vaccinated.

    I’m glad that I am science literate and live close to the canadian border.

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      Never fail to underestimate how much failures cause people to become more dug in than realize something is off.

      I remember in the early 2000s atheist sites would often pose questions about how believers could continue to believe when natural disasters and disease go rampant.

      The facts? Natural disasters, when they happen to believers, make them MORE entrenched in their beliefs and not less.

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    “the vaccine is useful for some protection and for other people it wanes”

    Yeah and the measles makes some people immune and for some people they die.

    Edit: also, what kind of argument is that in the first place? “Yeah well sometimes it provably provides a positive benefit to people’s lives in a statistically significant way, and sometimes it’s neutral with no downsides???”

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      The right has become such a weird ass death cult, and yet they still insist on calling themselves “right to life”.

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    “Dont trust the medical institutions until you’re sick” is just the self-harm logical extension version of the plague of right-wing myopia of broke self-reliance americanism and detriment individualism. American culture is completely unsalvageable

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    Dumb son of a bitch doesn’t even understand that a vaccine is “giving someone the disease” without killing them. God damn are we devolving that fast?