• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    There was another story the other day of a father whose unvaccinated daughter died of measles, and he said he was still glad she didn’t get the vaccine because he didn’t trust what’s in it to be safe. These people’s minds are not functioning rationally.

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      Iirc that was a Mennonite. Not that or makes things better, but they’re a weird cult, even for weird cults. Electric Amish.

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        Measles is insanely infectious. People have no clue the fire they’re inviting into our lives. Even vaccinated people are at risk.

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          Yes, so often we see people online saying “Ha ha, let the morons get COVID/measles/bird flu/etc!” They don’t stop to think about the risk to everyone else, particularly vulnerable people some of whom can’t get vaccinated and rely on herd immunity. In all these years still that lesson doesn’t seem to have been learned. I suspect the people saying this are healthy young people who haven’t really considered how different from theirs some people’s lives are.