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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

source: https://x.com/rcbregman/status/1868015427332255863

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I used to think one of the biggest reasons there's so many antivaxx people is that, because they're so effective, people no longer have the fear of seeing their children in an iron lung, struggling to breathe. Then Covid respirators happened and antivaxx fucks somehow got worse
- Most people on this planet are idiots.
  
  The average person is quite stupid and about half the people are even stupider (sic)
  
  😆 what do you mean dude
- It's also why Trump is president-elect currently. People are stupid and are forgetting just how bad things can be.
  
  They forgot about 4 years ago.
  
  I doubt this will compare to four years ago. It's going to be much worse.
  I'm hoping he keels over in the next month and we get President Vance. I know three things about him.
  He's really condescending towards people who didn't "escape" rural areas (from his book).
  He's close with Peter Thiel.
  He doesn't believe anything political he says. He previously said Trump is a dictator. He says what he needs to say to gain power.
  There's a non-zero chance that he's full of shit, and then turns out to be a great president. Either way, an unknown quantity is better than the one we're about to get. Hopefully it happens before the appointments, since the appointments can't be worse. Trump is what, 78?
  
  I think there's zero chance he turns out to be a great president, but there's probably a decent chance he'd turn out to be a mediocre president
  
  The most important thing is that Vance wouldn't have the hold over the whole party to be able to make them bow to his every whim like Trump does. Yes, they would still try to get project 2025 implemented, but they'd be less likely to be able to keep enough of their party in line to do it.
  
  I've just been hoping for the long shot that a plane carrying both of them will go down before the electoral college meets. If it also takes Musk, Johnson, Kennedy, and a bunch of others from his inner circle, so much the better.
  
  He's not my first choice, but if the choice is Trump, Vance, or Johnson, I'd choose Vance.
  
  That's four things.
  
  they think because he inherited a recovering economy, that he himself had some major part in it.
- I used to think one of the biggest reasons there’s so many antivaxx people is that, because they’re so effective, people no longer have the fear of seeing their children in an iron lung, struggling to breathe.
  Yes, I think that's absolutely right. The antivaxxers are people who didn't experience what it was like before vaccines.
  Then Covid respirators happened and antivaxx fucks somehow got worse
  I think part of it is that the effects of Covid were hidden from the public. The hospitals didn't let anyone in to see the rows of beds with people on respirators, so the public didn't see that on the news. They showed the refrigerated trucks but not the bodies in the trucks. So in the "pics or it didn't happen" timeline we're in, people didn't believe it was that bad. Even the aftereffects of long covid are barely recognized or mentioned. The whole thing has been bizarre.
  In olden times, everyone saw the dead bodies openly carried off on carts, or saw piles of them buried in mass graves. Their relatives died right there in front of them, not hidden away in a hospital where they themselves weren't allowed to enter. Before, everyone directly experienced the crisis and suffering it caused. This time, the ugly reality was hidden from most of us other than the direct caregivers.
  Side note: during the Vietnam war, reporters and camera crews were there and it was all shown on TV, the bodies, the wounded, the chaos. But the powers that be learned lessons from the horrified reaction of the public: do not show your failures on TV; keep your population in the dark. And we never saw our war casualties on TV again. Cameras were there, but we were shown nothing but scripted "reality TV", if anything at all.
  They followed the same script with Covid. This is supposed to be the information age but we're more in the dark than ever. Real information is either not provided or is buried in misinformation. Remember the Florida whistleblower who leaked how the State was skewing their covid statistics and was quickly arrested and smeared?
- My brother had to be convinced to get the vaccine.
  He's legitimately removed (I'm trying to say "re-tar-ded", but apparently it automatically saying "removed." Seriously? We're not allowed to say "re-tar-ded", a completely accurate medical term?) and had to go to a special school because of it.
  I think a lot of conservatives fall into this camp, but don't realize it because of how poor social programs are in red states.

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