solosnake posted...
anti vax used to be a fringe conspiracy, now its mainstream and indeed taking over the majority view.
What happened?
shockthemonkey posted...
Donald Trump happened
Also, I think vaccines kind of ended up as a victim of their own success. Mass death from disease, until COVID-19 broke out, kinda stopped being a
thing
long enough for many people to forget about the very real dangers involved with common diseases. People, particularly those who didn't study much history or biology in school, think of the flu as just feeling crummy for a few days rather than your body accidentally drowning you within your own lungs in its desperate final attempt to flush out the pathogens and/or your brain being pan-fried inside your own skull because your body is trying to burn the virus to death.
"Cynic, n. - A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"