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Study finds declining perceptions of safety of COVID-19, flu, and MMR vaccines in the United States (www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)
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[โ€“] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 2 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

I get the flu vaccine every year because about 30 years ago I didn't, and caught the flu. At one stage I was so weak I couldn't even get up to pee. Now I get that vaccine and every other one offered.

Funny story, something similar happened to a coworker, but he heated his house with a wood stove. he had to crawl outside to get wood, and then crawl back pushing one piece of wood at a time, back to the house. Flu kills and I'm okay with the anti vax types not getting. let them die off.

[โ€“] plateee@piefed.social 5 points 54 minutes ago

Fine, all the more vaccines for me. Pump me full of all of that stuff and make me invincible to illness.

[โ€“] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago

Noone is safe around magats practicing maha. Time is running out

[โ€“] schwim@piefed.zip 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Well, I mean, it's hardly surprising, given the people we're talking about, right?

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[โ€“] nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

My mother is a long time vaccine skeptic, I was only vaccinated because there was no option to not be vaccinated when I was in school. My mom is decidedly not a trimp fan. There was a point in time where she had me questioning vaccines, despite me working at a scientific research facility. A childhood friend snapped me out of that stupidity.

The funny thing about my mom's aversion is it comes down to how stupid she is regarding science. I remember her talking to one of her granola friends when I was a kid, they were saying "I do not know why we cannot have a shot or something that is like a dead or weakened version of the sickness, that would be so much better than a vaccine."

She was one of the "do your own research" people before the www existed. We had tons of books about the dangers of every food additive, and she still prescribes to the "if I cannot pronounce it I will not eat it".

[โ€“] schwim@piefed.zip 1 points 3 minutes ago

There have always been people that don't trust the medical community or science but I think you have to admit that the reason the country is suddenly reintroducing illnesses we had previously killed off is because of the trump cult follower. There are now so many people that get their information from these people currently in office that its begun reversing all progress made.