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Forty states saw rises in parents citing religious or other personal concerns for not vaccinating their young children.

The number of kids whose caregivers are opting them out of routine childhood vaccines has reached an all-time high, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, potentially leaving hundreds of thousands of children unprotected against preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough.

The report did not dive into the reasons for the increase, but experts said the findings clearly reflect Americans' growing unease about medicine in general.

"There is a rising distrust in the health care system," said Dr. Amna Husain, a pediatrician in private practice in North Carolina, as well as a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Vaccine exemptions "have unfortunately trended upward with it."

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Nature is wrong.

A species CAN regress.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda odd to think technology, the thing meant to propel us further, has a lot of uses to hold some people (a lot) back

[–] mayoi -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Such as the internet which was used to try and halt entire world's economy through fearmongering due to virus that killed insignificant % of people which would still be insignificant % if we did fucking nothing at all.

[–] Nythos 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Covid had >750 million cases and nearly 7 million deaths and that was with extensive efforts to reduce the spread.

If nothing was done the pandemic would have been far worse, far more deadly and would have done even more damage to “muh conomy”

[–] mayoi 0 points 1 year ago

I am 2 out of those cases by myself and I didn't even go to the hospital because it wasn't worth the time to do so.

[–] alignedchaos 1 points 1 year ago

Yea sure the only stat that matters is the death statistic. Why include catastrophic hospital overload, mass worker drain in the healthcare industry, long COVID effects, or concern for immunocompromized people with much higher death rates? Those would be inconvenient for whatever horseshit you’re spewing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idea that evolution is always progress is incorrect.

It's more like a random walk where adaptable changes are more likely to continue and maladaptive changes are more likely to die out.

But we live in a society where we artificially keep maladaptive humans alive to reproduce, and even tend to have them reproduce at a higher rate than the members of society that are most adaptable.

In theory this could be an issue if we were going to depend on adaptive changes to human biological and environmental developments for continued success.

In reality, it's not going to matter as within a generation we're going to have effectively infinitely scalable AI which is more adaptable than the average human and will offset the growth in maladaptive humans relative to adaptable.

Which will still not matter, as within a century the various debts we as a species are taking on will likely have inescapable consequences that doom us all, at best our cultural legacy living on with the continuation of AI that is adaptable to the environmental hellscape we leave behind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Non-random survival of randomly varying replicators, according to Richard Dawkins.

[–] Cheers 1 points 1 year ago

Social regression is necessary for genetic evolution. Some of us will not make it to find out.

[–] Immersive_Matthew 1 points 1 year ago

I think it is just evolution in action with kids unfortunately paying the price. There are many parental Darwin awards being readied.