Ask Lemmy

I’m concerned but I don’t know what I can do about that other than make sure my whole family is vaccinated.

Because we hate our lives and want to die.

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I mean anti-vaxxers believe vaccines to be essentially poisen, hence why they are opposed to them. They believe there are other remedies to cure diseases.

So to answer your question, yes they are worried but woefully misinformed.

If you think there are no anti-vaxxers in your country, you've got another thing coming.

Many of the anti-vax groups at the center of outbreaks are members of religious minorities. Menanites, Amish, and Hasidic Jews. The reason it's become more of a problem is that some upper middle class families have joined in and created more unvaccinated pockets in communities in the last decade.

For decades the conservative movement in the US has fostered a distrust in government and it has permeated just about everything.

Edit: I would also like to point out that these communities exist in the US because their ancestors likely fled religious oppression in YOUR country. Assuming you live anywhere in Europe there's a high chance that is true.

Christ man, we're screaming about it and have been for decades. Nobody will listen.

Lack of education?

Americans are not a monolith. Tons of Americans are concerned. Tons are not. Also many Americans have lives where these issues the news typically stirs up don't really actually impact their daily lives. Others are dramatically affected. It really depends on location and status, among so many factors.

Various news and online channels might have you thinking all Americans are basically the same and experiencing things the same, but they are definitely not.

Probably the same reason Europeans drink and smoke too tbh

The risk seems worth it. Either because the see it as lower than it is or that the loss of life less valuable than others see it.

With god as my armour I need no vaccines

Questions like this seem stupid, or they just need to be phrased in a more reasonable way.

Science showed things like climate change, which was hurting the bottom line of giant corporations who donate huge amounts of money to Republicans, so Republicans convinced their base that science is against God, and that it's all part of the evil woke liberals thing. So now anything that comes from science, including vaccines, is tainted.

1. The people who aren't idiots are already vaccinated so they'll be fine.

2. The people who are idiots think they are safer without vaccination. They are the ones who will die (or their children) but they aren't aware of it.

3. The people who can't get vaccinated but aren't idiots are kind of just screwed but this is an incredibly small minority of the population.