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[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 48 points 1 month ago

Measles and mumps would be lower if more people accepted the vaccine.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 1 month ago

Worm for a brain-Kennedy will make numbers go brrrrrrr

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

Watch RFK wash it all away.

[-] banshee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yep. They're coming back in a big fuckin' way.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 21 points 1 month ago

Now compare to autism diagnosese...

...and see no correlation.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Even if there was, I'm much happier being autistic than I would be dead.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd much prefer my children alive and autistic than dead (or debilitatingly disabled) too.

There's something weird about people who seem to think the other way around.

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

You don't know that

/s?

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Given that the term autism didn't exist before 1911 it probably wasn't being diagnosed a whole lot before then. But I would guess it went up as understanding and awareness of it grew, but there were definitely descriptions of people who met the criteria for it long before then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autism

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

I was wondering about that as I was furiously typing out my scathing sarcastic bullshit with a shit eating grin on my face.

[-] will_a113@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Would be neat to see deaths or hospitalizations pre/post visualized this way too to really drive home the point for the “measles weren’t really that bad” crowd.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Antivaxxers: Hold my Ivermectin and watch this…

[-] yoshi@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago

Seeing the raw numbers is impactful and I would also like to see these figures as percentages of the whole since they're comparing different times with different populations.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I was gonna say. The US population was 207M when I was born. It's now 335M. I would expect percentages to be far more telling.

[-] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

You sent me a private message earlier. I would like to talk to you more however I'm not comfortable showing my face to anyone.

[-] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

No I'm not. I tried sending you a private message but it told me I had to download something

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