I feel like the antivaxxers are more concentrated in the developed north because of privileges; from having better access to healthcare, better economy, and less prevalence of deadlier diseases because of colder climate. So they get treatment more easily if they need one, and don’t see nasty diseases. Meanwhile, the global south tend to believe more in vaccinations because diseases in warmer climate are more common and deadlier.
Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
The curse of vaccines is that they’re victims of their own success. They are so successful in fact that people forget why we need them in the first place. That’s why we unfortunately need a control group.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 day ago
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
yeah there’s definitely a correlation between temperature and diseases/infection.
it’s well known for example that the Thai and Spanish people all eat very spicy food because it disinfects the body from the inside out. Which reduces diseases. That only works for bacteria though, not viruses.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
:o
I never even thought of that.
See, mom? I’ve been collecting ulcers for good reason!gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
? what do ulcers have to do with it?
aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Someone should send that memo to Florida man.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t know what word I want to use. Not unintelligent, not really dumb or ignorant (although the people who blindly follow others who tell them they’re bad are), stupid? But at the top it seems like there’s people saying this stuff who are seemingly none of those. Malignant, I guess?
Either way, people need to realize how important vaccines are.
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh are you thinking of state level disinformation campaigns? If only there was some evidence that you could find to prove those things exist. Hmmm what ever will you do? nah, speculating on lemmy is the only thing we can do. Them misinformation spreaders are bad amirite
BreadOven@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’m not from the states. But merely questioning the motives of whoever is starting these disinformation campaigns. Vaccines work and keep people safe. Bottom line. No one can successfully argue the contrary.
Are you doing okay?
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Hmmm if only there was proof of these state sponsors information warfare campaigns using anti-vax misnformation. Hmm no better stick to misunderstanding sarcasm on lemmy and then speculating on things I could probably verify. Them misinfo spreaders are bad, am i right or what?
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The phrase “there is no glory in prevention” is well known in related fields
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I mean, you say that. But we have a quarterly all-hands office meeting at my company. Every meeting kicks off with “This is how many accidents we had this quarter. We are aiming for ZERO accidents. Zero Is Achievable.” And in the quarters we’ve had zero accidents, the upper management makes a big deal out of it.
There have been a number of campaigns to eliminate certain viruses from the human population - smallpox being the most famous. And there was quite a bit of glory doled out to celebrate the regional elimination of these contagions.
It’s possible to make prevention a celebrated endeavor. But you do have to prioritize it. And you can’t run away and blow it off when you fail. I think the real “no glory” issue is in bungled preventative campaigns. Far easier to insist vaccinations don’t work than to acknowledge our pre-Trump efforts at vaccinating the population have been half-assed and profit-motivated.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
unfortunately :/