I’ve seen it around Africa. Usually related to where there’s a bunch of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It dovetails well with scattered cultural prohibitions on anything to do with messing with the blood. No blood donations, no transfusions. Likely related to decades of HIV/AIDS concerns.
Edit: it’s also why a lot of polio vaccines are oral in Africa. Less stigma.
Is it only US where religious people are like “vaccines are satan” or do other countries have them as much?
I’ve seen it around Africa. Usually related to where there’s a bunch of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It dovetails well with scattered cultural prohibitions on anything to do with messing with the blood. No blood donations, no transfusions. Likely related to decades of HIV/AIDS concerns.
Edit: it’s also why a lot of polio vaccines are oral in Africa. Less stigma.
So it’s USA again. Usual bullshit colonialism.
Oh no, it’s locals that are JWs. But there’s plenty of non-JW cultural reasons that push the idea of no injections.
Did you really just ignore the entire second half of the comment? The JW folks just have a more coherent “it says no in this book” logic.
Ortodoxy is catching up, via fake podcast bro priests.