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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Oh how humanity hath fallen

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 5 days ago (21 children)

In 1955... Most people personally knew someone aflicted with polio. They knew how bad it was

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Society can be so backwards.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Stark contrast to the reaction most people had to the invention of seatbelts in cars.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

They will just blame the gays when their kids start wiggling

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I kinda suspect that shared joy might repeat if a cancer vaccine was revealed.

We didn't collectively suffer long enough from COVID for its vaccine to be universally embraced...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

On the other hand, half a century earlier-

So I guess the stupid waxes and wanes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

You know I wonder how much of this is because we stopped doing pubic service announcements for a while?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Something something smart people make good times that makes stupid people that make hard times that makes smart people?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If the polio vaccine happened today:

"Salk's Menace" Vaccine Spreads Fear

As the nation's newly adopted vaccine against poliomyelitis, the inactivated poliovirus (IPV) shot, began to circulate, reports of its alleged dangers were already being touted by concerned citizens.

"This is just another example of Big Pharma trying to control our bodies," declared Agnes Johnson, a local mother of five, who claimed she had "lived" with the symptoms of the vaccine. "I've been hearing stories from friends and family of children who suffered from 'long-term' effects" from receiving the shot.

At a recent public health meeting in Brooklyn, Dr. John Smith, a prominent anti-vaxxer, presented his research on what he called "the true story" behind the IPV. He alleged that Salk had "tainted" the vaccine with experimental ingredients, and that the vaccine was being aggressively pushed by government agencies to cover up its supposedly disastrous effects.

"I've seen patients come in with symptoms that were clearly caused by the 'new' shot," Dr. Smith said, his voice filled with conviction. "We're being told it's just a minor risk, but I'm telling you, this is not safe."

As the vaccine continued to gain acceptance across the country, another vocal critic, Rev. John Williams, took to the pulpit to warn of the alleged dangers of mass vaccination. "We are being herded onto the 'tragedy' of the Salk shot," he declared to a packed church. "We must stand up against this medical monolith and reject the experimental treatments."

Meanwhile, health officials were left scrambling to address the growing public outcry, as reported cases of vaccine-induced illness began to rise. As the nation's top medical leaders struggled to counter the growing misinformation, Dr. Salk himself was quick to respond. "The science is on our side," he said in a recent press conference. "We are confident that our vaccine will do more good than harm."

Despite this reassurance, anti-vaxxers remained resolute in their claims of a government-led conspiracy, citing the supposedly "mysterious" circumstances surrounding the vaccine's development and distribution.

As the debate over the new vaccine continues to rage, one thing is certain: the battle over public health will not be won by the voices of reason, but by the loudest and most fervent of critics. The true story of Salk's menance is just beginning to emerge – stay tuned for further updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That is so painfully accurate.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

Maybe we're going about this the wrong way. We know what kind of country we live in, a nation of proud, almost patriotic willful ignorance. By design. An laborer ignorant to who is fucking them is a dependable laborer, after all.

So in the spirit of playing to the audience we have, have we tried rebranding the "vaccines" as, and I'm just spitballing here, Freedom Blessings, Robert E Lee Juice, The Joe Rogan Vein Experience, or the Prove You Hate Commies Test?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I had a thought along the same lines. I was thinking we should coin the term "immunition," and tell people it was a way to arm your immune system to defend itself. It's not even all that misleading.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I think it has more to do with an authority figure telling them to do something. I think we'd have to distract them like we do children getting a shot. Instead of a toy beer we could use a talking revolver?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think it has more to do with an authority figure telling them to do something

Which is weird, because they love authority figures

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Instead of a toy beer we could just give them a real beer.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We are entering a stupid age, for which we may never recover.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

for which we may never recover.

um, it's FROM which, not "for which"

you wouldn't say "I'll never recover for this", would you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

You’ll never recover for this

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'd argue we ushered in the Stupid Age in November of 1980.

I agree though, we never recovered.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Quite the difference from how half the US population reacted to a Covid vaccine. The power of political propaganda and social media conspiracy theories.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I think if COVID was leaving people paralyzed it would never have been what it became. The fallout from COVID was bad but maybe not bad enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome might not be quite as bad as paralysis, but it is pretty fucking scary..

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I remember semi trailers being used as morgue extensions at hospitals. Every ventilator in the nation being claimed. People rasping out a good bye over FaceTime before going on a ventilator to probably die. It claimed a million people and the only reason that isn't the official number is because Trump and the GOP refused to count the bodies.

It was absolutely bad enough. But humans are capable of great self deception.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The problem was it was too quick: if you died of COVID, you were dead. You could be memory-holed and everyone would simply forget you and move on.

If you had Polio, though, you were paralyzed and stuck in a metal tube and kept alive.

Can't forget your not-dead kid who lives in a tube, and thus it was treated as more of a thing that should be fought because there was a clear and visible reminder of what this disease was doing to everyone's kids.

If COVID left a couple million people living in tubes, then we absolutely would have treated it differently, but it didn't.

(Alternately, if COVID had killed 10 or 20 million people, we would have also treated it seriously: it just wasn't sufficiently deadly OR left a wake of broken, but living, people.)

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 days ago (3 children)

And how those same people are cheering about Captain Brainworm's intentions to discontinue the polio vaccine.

Behold the power of mass lead poisoning. We truly live in the most stupid timeline.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think this is just the US returning to its pre super power roots. More and more it seems like the last 80 years were seen exception and now they are returning back to where they were before the world wars.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Don't give them ideas!

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