Holy shit I thought this was only about Covid. These absolute idiots are breaking herd immunity for the entire field of virus based diseases.
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The anti-vaccine movement has been fighting their pro-disease fight for decades now
Polio has (re-)entered the chat.
hope you enjoy smallpox and diphteria
Fucking sucks for immunocompromised people as well I'm sure
My mom has lymphoma. She gets extremely sick from even minor colds. I am very worried about losing her to an infection, and the thought that it could be a vaccine-preventable infection fills me with rage
Well, given that the vast majority of these folks are aligned to a particular political party.... And it's an election year during covid/flu/rsv season...
Carry on!
I just saw somewhere that (of course it's Florida) politicians in Florida are calling to stop distribution of vaccines there because of "potential to cause cancer."
Hmmm... Now you care about carcinogens? You know what helps prevent carcinogens from entering the ecosystem? Corporate regulations. Oops I said the bad R word... They don't actually give a shit about what causes cancer, it's just another political stunt...
We really need to come back to reality as a country. Unfortunately it will take another thirty years.
It's a bit uncomfortable to be cheering for eugenics, even if it is self-administered...
Fortunately this isn't government mandated "cleansing", these people are being told to get vaccinated/wear masks/use hand sanitizer. They're being given every opportunity and encouragement to protect themselves.
Definitely Darwinism doing what Darwinism does.
I just feel bad for the immunocompromised people who will unfortunately inevitably get caught up in the assholes who refuse to take necessary precautions.
I don't think this counts as eugenics, as nobody is forcing them to kill themselves. This looks more like natural selection to me. I'm all for it.
Ever since April 2020, whenever I hear something about vaccines, I just assume the worst.
I never got rid of my mask or hand sanitizer. Keep some in your car too. We're all responsible for our own germs because culturally and legally, your right to life is considered less important than the right to stupidity.
Only 19% of people have gotten the latest lastest Covid vaccine.
The first one was giant walk in clinics where you just told them your name and address. Completely free. The largest vaccine drive in US history.
The second round was at pharmacies and some popup spots. Free but they bill via insurance.
The third was at pharmacies only and free only if you didn't have insurance.
I know I am speculating here but is it possible, just remotely possible that trying to reduce costs in the short run by managed inconvenience and using crony capitalism is a factor in the decline of vaccination? And furthermore costs us as a society more with more deaths, more disability, more sick time taken, less time for students in school, less overally human happiness than just doing the way that proved it worked amazingly well 2 years ago. Could it be that by making things harder for people they are less likely to do it? Do humans really respond to incentives and short term cost savings do not always translate to greater long term prosperity?
Oh man this is like way too wild. No way I am right about any of this.
Covid vaccines remain free to anyone with insurance, including Medicare. They are immediately available at just about any pharmacy. Access is not the problem.
My sister's insurance didn't cover it. Which is wild, and I thought should be, but she fought it hard and that was the final answer. She had to go to a free vaccine event to get it because she couldn't afford the several hundred dollars they wanted without insurance.
You might be right about the Covid vaccine, but this article is mostly referring to young children and vaccines such as measles. I don't think it would be about distribution changes in that case.
More parents are requesting exemptions, with the implication being that more people have become polarized against all vaccines.
The third was at pharmacies only and free only if you didn’t have insurance.
For people in the USA: The covid vaccine is free for people with insurance.
Additionally, at least some doctor's offices have it (mine does, but I don't want to assume they all do), and there are vaccine clinics where they do flu/covid/etc that show up periodically if that's more your style.
I'm not specifically calling out the user I quoted, just making a general statement because I've seen that exact sentiment ("the covid vaccine is no longer free") like 4 or 5 times on lemmy in just the past day. It's disinformation/misinformation and it leads to situations where misinformed people decide not to get vaccinated, in part, because they think it's going to cost them money.
I got my vaccine while in the weird period after getting a new job where you don't have your health insurance info yet.
I paid $200 for it.
I'd do it again - got covid a few weeks ago and it was pretty light, likely a result of the vaccine - but damn, that's a hard ask for a huge portion of the population.
The rollout for the 2023 vaccine was awful. I wouldn't be surprised that some folks gave up because you just couldn't get an appointment and then it was out of mind.
The third was at pharmacies only and free only if you didn't have insurance.
I have insurance and didn't pay for any of them.
A lot of people here are claiming something "like this is a problem that only affects these idiots". Sadly, that's not the case. A number of these vaccines are only roughly 80% effective. The efficacy of these lies in herd immunity, where the 20% of people who did get the vaccine, but are not protected, will never encounter the disease because the other 80% can't get it to spread it to them.
Let's say you need 70% of people to be protected to maintain herd immunity. Then just 10% of the population needs to be idiots, and the disease spreads to the 30% that isn't protected. Of that 30%, 20 points are people who were not idiots and got vaccinated, but unfortunately are not protected. The idiots will get sick, but twice as many not-idiots will get sick too. Unfortunately, for some of these diseases, the idiots will be hurting many more people than themselves.
The affected people are not necessarily immunocompromised. For example, after two doses of the mumps vaccine, 88% of people are immune. Immunity decreases with time, so the proportion that's immune is lower than that. Let's guess at 80%. You, the person reading this, can be a normal healthy person who got the mumps vaccine, and you have a 1 in 5 chance that you're not immune. Those are some pretty big odds.
Yes, the immunocompromised people are relying on the herd for protection, and the morons are letting them down
Do we have that many darwin awards to give out?
We do have an infinite amount of them yes. Sadly they will all be printed on fancy paper at best this year because of the volume of them.
We can't drown out botnets without botnets of our own. Information war is war, but lacks attrition, so the opponents never actually get defeated.
So, we can either accept this status quo, or we can escalate. But I don't think we can just try harder, we're givin her all she's got, Jim. It's not like medical professionals are known for having tons of free time and extra morale to burn away on twitter.
So, we need technical assistance, of some sort.
Problem is, who will fund the good botnet?
A grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Who else?
The CEO of the Internet!
MDs are our there signing exceptions. It's a matter to legislate about.
Hah. Needless.
I’ve come to accept that I’ll have to work until I’m dead. So one thing that doesn’t make me upset is less people. Specifically less people to take my job—younger people.
So, anti-vaxers, if you really wanna pwn me, you’ll make sure your kids live long enough to take my job.
We need a new disfiguring disease that scares the shit out of people. We were too good and eliminated smallpox. We nearly eliminated polio and measles. Monkeypox failed (thank you, doctors, scientists, and everyone who got vaccinated!)
...So now we need a new one that causes people to either get extremely fucked up and live, or extremely fucked up and then die horribly, and slow enough to warn people in their communities.
Apparently, a subset of the population cannot remember the olden days, and vaccines in schools aren't compulsory anymore.
These people have gone too long without people they love dying in front of them from things like prolonged diarrhea lung, mucus intoxication and blood tears. Also the holocaust survivors and WW2 soldiers have mostly passed away.
We have a collective goldfish memory and right wing governments constantly sabotaging public education. We also lack empathy on the whole. Civilization doesn't feel like it can sustain much longer.
Looks at notes: We'll need to get that up to hundreds of thousands before anyone even starts to think about doing something about it.
Don't worry though, the faster you approach a million, the more likely they'll just start to shrug it off and say it's the new normal.