BECUZ TEh VACCINE CAN TURN UR DOG INTO A CAT!!11one
Definitely that’s part of it. People today are spoiled by not having regular exposure to diseases that disabled or killed millions in the past. I like to remind people that their grandparents or great-grandparents would be glad for the rarity of those diseases today.
These people need to spend a few months in India.
But the reason that we don’t get those diseases anymore is because we keep our environment cleaned properly!
(There is an undertone of racism in the anti-vax movement)
I’ve posted this before, but my sister-in-law is a pediatrician whose practice will no longer accept mothers who won’t vaccinate their kids, after an infant patient died of whooping cough. She said that most mothers-to-be listen to the reasoning and agree to vax.
Anti-vax has a long history. That’s why there were U.S. Supreme Court vaccination cases in 1905 and 1922. Then there was a period after World War II with less U.S. anti-vax sentiment. I’m thinking that this was because people trusted the government and experts due to success in that war.
There seems to have been virtually no preventive vaccination of dogs before about 1950. But if there had been mandatory vaccination of dogs in the early 20th century, it would have been controversial.
Now, I am all for vaccinating pets. There was been a big decline in human rabies after pet vaccination became commonly mandatory.
We should make them read Old Yeller.
I’ve heard that many doctors will not vaccinate a child with just the father’s permission, because they’ve dealt with far too many angry anti-vax mothers. However, mothers can make such a decision unilaterally. Go figure.
Has your SIL ever said anything about that?
Measles was pretty much a thing of the past by the time I came along, but I grew up with several kids who had a sibling who was disabled due to prenatal rubella (German measles). This disease is especially scary because people can have it without knowing it.
Even India isn’t having some of these diseases the way they used to. Polio cases, for example have plummeted (although there are pockets of resistance to vaccination due to some scum bags spreading evil rumors).
Fake news! /s
So when should we expect to see the first RABIES PARTIES advertised on FB and other social media?
I mean, get your furbabies immunised by exposing them to the actual virus, isn’t that the way it works??
And bring your kids along too, just a quick bite (better than a fucking jab) and your child is, well, probably dead, but better than being immunised, right?
A bite is just a jab with teeth, really.
So, vaccine chemtrails?
Shhh, you’ll alert the antvaxers!
Next, they’ll be dropping needles from planes!
Sidebar: This was a plot point in The Mirror Crack’d by Agatha Christie.
It’s more than an undertone - a lot of antivax messaging has a clear component of racism and anti-Semitism. Those calling themselves “purebloods” because they haven’t been vaccinated and fantasizing that their sperm will be in high demand* are just part of the problem.
“The intersection between anti-vaccination and antisemitism has definitely been more prominent since the start of Covid-19,” said Dr. Michael Jensen of the University of Maryland, whose research concentrates on extremist groups and domestic radicalization.”
“One of the more fascinating things about the merging of anti-vaccination and antisemitism in the last couple of months has been the diversity of actors that have come together to spread these narratives,” he added, grouping together everyone from white supremacists to militia groups and QAnon affiliates."
RFK Jr. brought joy to bigots when he pushed the idea that Covid–19 was “ethnically targeted”, sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.
*I haven’t yet seen ads for “pureblood” unvaccinated puppies, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
It’s not India, but vaccination campaigns aren’t helped by things like a fake vaccination campaign organized by the CIA in Abbottabad as a method of searching for Osama bin Laden.
I wouldn’t go anywhere near India without every jab I could get.
There’s no excuse for having to say “polio has plummeted” not in this day and age. Just frightful.
They try to drown themselves.