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Zero sympathy. Absolute Zero.
Translation: " boy, are we STUPID"
not just stupid but dangerous to the immunocompromised who can't get vaccinated.
I'm starting to think Cipolla was right
These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
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Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
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A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
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Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
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A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Well, if your education fails on such basic science topics like how effective vaccination is in saving lives, dumb antivaxxers can have a field day with their lies.
Bad curricula and home schooling are to blame. For a number of educational failures in the US.
NO SHIT ITS NOT A MILD INFECTION.
The entire world came together to eradicate a disease that we knew could not only debilitate but kill.
We spent years to formulate a preventative treatment that allows our bodies to survive infections, but some looneytunes sounding twat decides that vaccines are the devil and now that very same disease has open and unprotected vectors to be spread through.
Isn't measles considered bad because it's INSANELY contagious? Like covid made immunologisys freak out because the infection rate was over 2? Measles is like 12 or 18.
Lingers in the air for hours too... Good luck american morons and their neighbours...
I had measles as a kid, I wasn't vaccinated, i remember it as if it were yesterday, it was so traumatic, i genuinely thought I was going to die, I genuinely felt my mortality, at like 7 or 8yo. the pain was more than I could cope with. My mother was (and still is) an antivaxer. As deranged (and narc) as they come. I got my kids vaccinated. It's ripping my heart out, knowing what these kids are, entirely unnecessarily, being put through.
I don't want to pull on any strings that are too painful or nothing but ... did you tell your mom that you vaccinated your kids? if you did, how did she handle it?
She's only become very vocal about her beliefs since the covid vaccine propaganda has been going around. I always thought she didn't vaccinate us because she just didn't care. It was rare for her to care about any of our (me and my siblings) physical ailments, or illnesses. And we don't really speak, even when we do talk, there's never any conversations where we talk about things, so I wouldn't have ever spoken to her about getting my babies vaccinated. She's a full blown narcissist, so conversations with my mother look like, her running some spiel about how amazing she is, how much better she is at literally everything, how much of a burden and annoyance everyone in her life is, because they are lazy or some such and make so much work for her, (even though she never lifts a finger to do anything, it's all done by these people for her). And I'm the black sheep, she's hated me the most for as long as I can remember, she diminishes and ridicules everything I say, or outright ignores me, randomly pretends I don't exist and she can't hear anything i say. All that to try to explain, we've never really talked, like ever.
Partially she hated me the most because from teen years on i always called her out on her shit. Sometimes just by asking simple questions, sometimes by outright stating the ways , what she was saying didn't make sense. Lately I've been calling her out on the covid bullshit, but she makes such idiotic statements, I'm starting to feel like what's the point. She doesn't listen to or consider what I'm saying. I'm feeling like it's a waste of my energy. None of us believe her bullshit. The last time she started on her vaccine rants, it was that "covid vaccine caused all those deaths" spiel. I explained to her, painstakingly, that more people will die without the vaccine. She said that doesn't matter, any deaths are too many. There's nothing rational going on up there.
I feel like She just likes to rage about something, it doesn't matter what, but it has to be something right wing type. To distract from the massive ego vs reality imbalance, rife inside narcissistic types. Their beliefs don't match reality, about themselves, so they're constantly having to either try and create that fantasy reality by tearing others down, in an attempt to assert the hierarchy, therefore being able to see themselves as better than those they tear shreds off, in some twisted logic, or distracting themselves with some injustice (usually a bourgeois injustice, as they see themselves as the top 1%. Regardless if that matches reality).
I had a friend who was an antivaxer, too. She wasn't a crazy narcissist, like my mother. She just fell for the propaganda. She was respectful about it, we just didn't talk about it at all. But if we did accidentally come upon the subject in conversation, she still wouldn't say anything. She didn't ever try to convince me, none of that. We drifted apart, busy lives.
If anyone in a large room or house has measles, everyone will get it.
1 in 100 will get the virus in their brains leading to permanent brain damage or blindness.
A closed room with a internal vents system like a mall or a school can have measles issues for weeks after a few case. It was ione of the worst virus of the past for a reason.
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Even europeans, asians, will have to be more careful the next tens of years, thanks to some deranged conspiratists in power.
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You see, the reason you didn't know was because we had eradicated it before you morons decided you were smarter than the entire science and medical community because you watched some youtube videos
Algorithmic engagement prioritized this shit over established medical science. Big Tech undermined all the pillars of society. What a fucking mess.
Capitalism. Capitalism caused this. Big Tech is just a vessel that is used by capitalists to further their agenda.
Big Tech is a force multiplier. It amplifies the scale and scope of the damage. To make an analogy, it's like replacing muskets with machine guns. Capitalism was headed this direction long before tech came along, but with tools like these in their pocket, the scale of the disinformation went from "a serious problem" to "an existential crisis", and the tools we have to resist it are simply incapable of holding the line against the firehose of BS.
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I once had a neighbor tell me they "didn't agree with liberal views on vaccines."
You know, like germs give a flying fuck about your political views.
The irony? This person is a nurse.
I worked in nursing for a while
I worked with a few excellent people, many average people, and a horrifyingly large number of absolute fucking halfwits
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At what point should other countries ban travel from the US?
Since 2021 (when Covid19 vaccines were rolled out in the "Western" world and normal life gradually returned). Maybe already earlier, but travel was restricted anyhow.
Good reasons have only been mounting since then.
Add travel advisory warnings for people going there.
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Antivax parents are the worst kind of stupid - well intentioned stupid. And children are paying the price. Some of those parents even refuse to change their stance because the cognitive dissonance of admitting they were wrong about their beliefs is worse to them than the knowledge that they tortured and possibly killed their and others' children. These people need to be committed.
Edit, typo
Happened with a lot of that group during the pandemic. Loved one would die, but they'd still bitch about the vaccine.
Also, just a heads up if you care. You wrote "partying" when you meant "paying". I'm pretty sure.
but they’d still bitch about the vaccine.
My favorite were the ones that refused the vaccine, mocked others for getting "the jab", posted daily on social media how the government was evil for mandating vaccinations (which it wasn't). And then, after they contracted covid and at the 11th hour dying from the infection, they beg for the vaccination (which would be like throwing a cup of water on a wild fire) and cry about the unfairness as they wither away and die.
Fuck anti-vaxxers
Idk, fuck anti-vaxxers and all, but watching anyone wither and die as they beg... is pretty fucked up for anyone to see. I do ICU nursing, and the pandemic left me with some ptsd; 10/10 wouldn't recommend
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Thanks, and yeah I remember. One older guy was dying in the hospital because his lungs were practically melting and he was asked if he regretted not getting the vaccine. He replied that not only did he not regret it, but that he'd do the same thing again given the chance. He literally died rather than change his mind. It's the definition of insanity.
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I thought chiropractors and ivermectin were a miracle cure. Whattup with that, MAGAs? You lot shouldn't be sick, yeah?
They're clearly invulnerable / invincible. They'll live forever, just like the pieces of shit in USA government.
My father almost died from polio as a kid. I care a lot about vaccines. I hope all these people die before they can do further harm to the rest of us. There will be no such luck.
Sharing from a friend :)
most people have received 2 doses of the MMR vaccine. if you haven’t received 2 doses, you could talk to a doctor. if you don’t know how many doses you have received: I would ask for a measles immune status test, and get vaccinated if you don’t have immunity. people who were born before 1970 are assumed to have natural immunity, but you may still need to be vaccinated, depending on your situation.
I fucking wonder why there was such a concerted effort to create a :: checks my notes:: fucking vaccine!!!
If only there was some way to protect yourself. /s
I had measles as a kid in the 80s, either before I was old enough for the vax or a breakthrough case, unclear which as idk the recommended schedules from the 80s. I was in the hospital for weeks. I take vaccination very seriously, get every single one I can, and was quite pleased to have gotten all my childhood vaccinations a second time as an adult, just to be absolutely sure (my records went missing and it was required for my job).
Zero sympathy.
For the parents. I feel bad for the kids.
Mormons believe that their children are pre-selected in the pre-earth life, so the children chose to come to that family in their theology.
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A society that doesn't know how to pass common knowledge from generation to generation is doomed.
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RFK Jr. and all the antivaxxers need a Nuremberg-style trial...
If coronavirus comes back, the Untied States is fucked
Why is alternate universe Trevor Moore from 2050 in the screenshot?
WTF did they expect?
These people are an extremely dangerous combination: highly uneducated and privileged enough to not have experienced actual hardship.
They probably expected the sniffles or some shit, not a highly contagious horrible disease that can have permanent detrimental effects on your body, including brain damage, deafness, blindness, lung damage, or you know, straight up death.
Like how most Americans sincerely believe that a bad head cold is the flu. "I don't need to get vaccinated; I get the flu every year and it's not that bad." Yeah, no you don't. You get a cold every year.
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They should have lifted weights and taken Ivermectin.
And they kept on telling me they wish they'd known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family
We've been trying to tell you, but you stuck your fingers in your ears and insisted you knew better. And once you're over the measles, instead of using this newly-acquired realization to revisit some of your positions, you'll stick your fingers right back in your ears and refuse to listen to us about anything else you're wrong about. So enjoy your measles, and all of the diseases you're going to catch again because measles reset your immune system, and I fucking hope you get shingles.
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Should be a law if you don't trust science to get vaccinated, you can't use hospital resources when you're sick. Do your research and figure it out.
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