• Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    I hate memes like this, it’s as stupid and harmful as the “If you even look marijuana once you’ll end up selling your body for crack a week later” crap from the 1990s. And it’s stupid and harmful for the same reasons.

    The reality is that the vast majority of antivax kids will be perfectly fine and never get any major vaccine-preventable Illness, and even if they do they’ll probably be ok. And that’s why memes like this are harmful. People on the fence can easily observe that these claims are false, that the anti-vax kids are not getting sick, and that can push them into becoming anti-vax themselves.

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      9 hours ago

      That’s only thanks to the people that are vaxxing their kids. You’d prefer to just wait for this type of propoganda until the more personal harm actually becomes reality? Society has been there, it’s not a scare tactic like Marijuana will make you a crack whore. It’s tongue in cheek in the sense that as the antivax movement gains followers this can become an apropos statement.