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Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!

In case you're not clear on the effectiveness of , here's a simple chart. Please share.

@old_hippie I'd be interested in knowing what Mitch McConnell thinks about getting rid of the polio vaccine

@alisynthesis McConnell would agree to it if it suited him politically. He's already gotten past polio so he doesn't give a shit about anyone else.

@old_hippie Too bad it's not a three-column graph with the third column being after vaccine denialism really set in (2020+)

@old_hippie especially since the US population has about doubled since 1960

@old_hippie sadly this simple chart won't do much. Even with a chart of caused deaths it still wouldn't change some anti vac people as they think it is God's will or something like that.
I don't tolerate those opinions in influencing main points of laws.

@old_hippie I know it gets old but once again for the ppl in the back, vaccines do not cause #autism.

@old_hippie and now we will have an anti-vaxxer in charge of the CDC. 😬

@old_hippie (It's probably safe to assume the only reason there are any cases at all post-vaccine are anti-vaxxers refusing to vaccinate and to a significantly lesser degree the medical industry not making sure everyone is vaccinated who can be vaccinated. That's mostly a problem in other countries, but it spills over a little because international travel makes it so that unvaccinated people sometimes carry diseases in that should've been erradicated.)

@old_hippie @alice and yet…

I moved recently from the US to Scotland and my kids just got their flu vaccines *at school*. It was very convenient.

This would be unheard of in the US. You’d have Karens doxing the principal in real-time on TikTok.

@kumarvibe @alice When I was a kid, back in the 50s, we got vaccines at school.

@old_hippie @alice ah yeah, a friend was telling me how efficient polio vaccination used to be in the US, too.

I think pediatricians all do it now? I’m not sure if every kid in the US on average healthcare regularly sees a pediatrician.

@old_hippie if it wasn’t for the childhood victims I would be all in for rampant plagues decimating republicans everywhere