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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 99 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

The curse of vaccines is that they're victims of their own success. They are so successful in fact that people forget why we need them in the first place. That's why we unfortunately need a control group.

Thankfully some people volunteer for that role ...

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The phrase "there is no glory in prevention" is well known in related fields

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I feel like the antivaxxers are more concentrated in the developed north because of privileges; from having better access to healthcare, better economy, and less prevalence of deadlier diseases because of colder climate. So they get treatment more easily if they need one, and don't see nasty diseases. Meanwhile, the global south tend to believe more in vaccinations because diseases in warmer climate are more common and deadlier.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

We should thank the antivaxxers. There was a suspicion for years that vaccines over age 60 reduce the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases but due to high uptake, a control group was not obvious, nor ethical to impose.

Now, the control group has appeared and vaccines, especially Shingrex, lower Alzheimer incidence by 20-30%.

In fact, vaccines work far better than the last two FDA approved antibody therapies for dementia costing $26000 a year.

This was a very promising route to prevent neurodegenerative diseases but Trump ironically cut all this research in 2025. So he'll die of literal brain rot, because Tony Fauci make him feel inferior.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 43 points 4 days ago (14 children)

Not making a choice, is a choice.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Geddy Lee voice

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Jesus Christ, the Nurglites have come out of the woodwork in this thread.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I know a couple of anti-vax people who won’t take or get any vaccine, but they will happily buy unregulated dick pills from china.

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[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Does anybody else remember the good old days before the pandemic when anti-vaxers where a left wing phenomenon? It was mostly popular among the all natural hippies who were convinced that crystals and meditation could cure diseases and that all modern medicine was a scam by the all powerful and all elusive "big pharma"... It's sad that anti-vaxers went from being clowns that everybody made fun to being a serious problem because a big chunk of society decided to go brain dead and now old diseases are making a comeback.

[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

all natural hippies who are convinced that crystals and meditation could cure diseases and that all modern medicine was a scam by the all powerful and all elusive “big pharma” are right wing now

[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

In Australia the wackos and feral teamed up with the conservative nut jobs in our rural hippie town of Nimbin.

All because of the vaccine.

Fucking morons

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 81 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Poor things, give them some homeopathic placebo at least

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can’t describe how many patients I see in an average week who are taking homeopathic stuff for their dental diseases and ask me hopefully if it’s working. No, magic toxin water has not cured your gingivitis or rebuilt your cavitated tooth.

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 23 points 5 days ago

I'm sad that my mom believed in homeopathy. She still went to doctors thankfully and got her cancer treated, but she wasted so much money on snake oil

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Sadly, the stupid tend to breed prolifically, and anti-vax idiots often have a gaggle of spawn, and are keen to whelp more litters as the others die from perfectly preventable diseases

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think about that often. The people who have the most kids are generally the ones who can’t afford them and have a harder time providing extra-curricular activities or those with more extreme religious beliefs who may opt out of scientific education. If your average Mormon has 3-4 kids and your average astrophysicist has 1-2, the population trend must eventually follow.

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[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Of course they have many kids. They need to in order to survive their genes.

Many of their kids never reach adulthood.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 29 points 5 days ago (38 children)

Half the anti-vaxxers I knew had concerns what was in the shot but did coke all weekend.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I used to party hard and I’ve got fucked up with people going on about Covid vaccine as we are actively doing lines off a fucking table. When id point it out they’d say that’s different.

Idiots.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're right, we know exactly the kind of damage snorting powdered drugs has on your nose and heart. They were taking a calculated risk, you were just rolling the dice with your health. Owned again, liberal.

(I AM JOKING)

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago
[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 days ago

Well, their kids are. They, no doubt, were vaccinated by their parents.

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