#antivax — Public Fediverse posts

Čtyřicetiletá žena v americkém státě Pensylvánie zemřela na spalničky, oznámily v neděli úřady. Počet úmrtí spojených s touto vysoce nakažlivou nemocí tak letos ve Spojených státech vzrostl na tři v době, kdy v zemi klesá proočkovanost.

Actor Ricky Schroder dragged for anti-trans tribute to Dolly Parton

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/people/ricky-schroder-dolly-parto-tribute

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116661302516855264

Once again, the GOP is literally a party of plague.

#uspol #uspolitics #fascism #politics #medicine #vaccination #antivax #fuckheads #fuckfaces #FuckTheGOP #FuckRepublicans #FuckTrump

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/health-930k6cv1z/-/a-LJuOS3gbR2-bzFzO4-zxag%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0

The antivax sentiment in one of the most notorious red states is trying to move forward with disabling and killing its populace, starting with kids.
#PublicHealth #AntiVax #GetVaccinated #WearAMask

As professionals who have had to reason and analyze antivax behavior, the comment that always stayed with me is that "People will remain willfully ignorant until it affects them directly".
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As Measles Takes Toll on Kids, Anti-Vaxxers Have Change of Heart

For some vaccine-hesitant parents...who’ve been goaded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., watching an outbreak rip through their state has made the deadly realities of the disease more concrete.

They’re starting to question their own deeply held beliefs and the conspiracy theories that fueled them. And in several measles hotspots, enough of them are quietly changing their minds on the MMR shot that it’s slowing down the outbreaks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/as-measles-takes-toll-on-kids-anti-vaxxers-have-change-of-heart/ar-AA21iL9p
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I wish I could say I believe it is a turning point, but our recent history suggests that ignorance will keep outpacing facts unless laws are made and enforced to protect everyone.

#AntiVax #Measles #Infectiousdiseases #GetVaccinated #WearAMask #PublicHealth

SC State Senator Proposes Bill To Remove Religious Exemptions For Vaccines In Public School Children

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/sc-state-senator-proposes-bill-to-remove-religious-exemptions-for-vaccines-in-public-school-children/

#États-Unis #US : la principale #agence #sanitaire du pays adopte une théorie #erronée sur les #vaccins.

With an #antivax at its head:
What did you expect ?

https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/pendant-que-vous-dormiez-cop30-discours-antivax-donald-trump-espagne-et-exxonmobil-les-informations-de-la-nuit_237660

#vaccines #antivax #science #autism #tylenol

That the #people touting #antivax shit as a personal choice have made it very difficult to get a vaccination makes it pretty damn obvious it was never about choice it was about the same thing #rightwingers always want: #control

In a #rambling mostly #incoherent *news* briefing #Trump (at times) supported the #AntiVax #ConspiracyTheories from #RFKJr regarding #autism.

#DoNotBelieve
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/22/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Good riddance to bad (fashy and traitorous) garbage.

"With a brewing trade war between the United States and Canada, pro-Trump Canadians, like my family, are now being forced to choose between the president or their country — and, disturbingly, some are choosing Trump."
#Canada #traitors #fascists #authoritarianians #illiberalism #betrayal #Turncoats #Antivax #conspiracies #QAnon #losers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/30/canada-trump-patriotism-trade-war/

I got the shingles vaccine. I’m not sure what shingles is, but if the vaccine prevents some beefy roofer from nailing me, I'm all for it.
#joke #humor #meme #roofer #shingles #vaccine #antivax #RFK #comedy #oneliner

So the #aim is to have a #healthier population.
1. Appoint an #antivax #conspiracy #nutjob to oversee #health.
2. Reduce or #eliminate #pollution #safeguards.
3. Promote #animal #fat.
4. #strip and #gut #EPA.
#brilliant! The #stupidity of #GOP, #MAGA and this #government is astounding! #USPolitics

I just read sad news that a 10-year old boy pointlessly died of #diphtheria. He was not vaccinated. Althrough vaccines were readily available. This is obviously the parent’s fault. 10-year olds have different problems.

Please check if your vaccinations and those who are close to you are up-to-date: If not, or if you don’t know: Go see a doctor NOW. I’m not a doctor, so ask them, not me. :P

And fuck #antivaxxers!

#PSA #AntiVax #vaccines #health

I'm trying to concentrate on my #work, but I keep getting pulled away by #doomscrolling. There's even more doom to scroll these days than usual, it seems.

Much of what I'm scrolling is discussions in #science-focused spaces, started and (somewhat) moderated by people who want thoughtful and informed discussion. Often they stay that way for quite a while. But the loons always find them, and descend in hordes. Like locusts without the charisma.

#Antivax is the most common, but #creationism and #climate change denial always put in a good showing. More recent crankeries like the explosion of flat-Earthers: please don't try to tell me they're all "just trolling." Others too numerous to list.

There are the hardcore #ideologues who don't try to mask it, and the "just asking questions" crowd who are just as much true believers, minus the honesty. And another circle beyond that, people who genuinely don't know enough to know what questions to ask. Some of them might still be reachable—

—if you have the time and patience. Which I no longer do.

I did, you know, for much of my life. I'd give clear explanations, "as simple as possible but no simpler," and I've been told I was pretty good at it. Hell, I *enjoyed* doing it, and maybe still would. Answer questions. Smooth out sticking points. Engage with anyone, any time, anywhere.

I just can't anymore. And I hate that.

More and more of the people who look like they might want to learn, who can at least be given what they need to know to *start* asking the right questions, are really clever ideologues. Or they're just happy in their #ignorance. It's a trap either way.

Like I've said before: nearly everyone is ignorant about nearly everything. The sum of human #knowledge is too vast for anyone to learn more than a sliver of it in a lifetime. This is nobody's fault.

Science is fractally complicated. Each field is complicated, and each subfield is equally complicated, and each sub-sub-field ... you get the idea. No matter how much you know, you still have just as much to learn as you did at the start.

Maybe everything worth knowing is like this. Again, nobody is to blame.

But it is your fault, very much so, if you don't know anything about the subject at hand—and insist on spouting off anyway. If you react to those who know more with anger or mockery or baffled rage. If your deliberate, willful ignorance gets you and people around you killed.

So you know what? It's not my fault if I can no longer make myself care.

I'll keep on answering questions, and asking them too—and *listening* to both the questions and the answers. That's in my blood. I know there are many, many people in the world who do want to know more than they do now, and if you're still reading this, there's a fair chance you're one of them.

Everyone else can go to hell. That's where they're headed anyway, a hell they make for themselves, and the only remaining reason to try to get through is that they'll drag the rest of us with them. When that effort fails, as at the moment it manifestly is ...

Back to work. That may still be one place I can do *something*.

@epistatacadam

It's a novel approach! 😂😂

I get where you're coming from. I was an early #COVID sceptic (not #antivax) until a mate who was working on the vaccine put me straight with empirical evidence. I then fell foul of the #Plandemic & antivax brigade! 🙄

A friend who I repeatedly clashed with online over COVID tragically died 18 months into the #Pandemic.

Unfortunately he succumbed to the very COVID he said didn't exist. He was ill for days & refused to seek medical help. C19 got him. 😓

#TwitterDown #BronnyJames #ElonMusk #CommunityNotes #antivax
Free speech man strikes again.

Twitter Deletes Fact-Check Of Musk Connecting Bronny James’ Cardiac Arrest To Covid Vaccine

"Some users on the social media platform, including Musk, spread vaccine misinformation Tuesday, claiming Bronny James’ cardiac arrest may have been linked to the use of the Covid-19 vaccine."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2023/07/25/twitter-deletes-fact-check-of-musk-connecting-bronny-james-cardiac-arrest-to-covid-vaccine/?sh=14f21acd3aa8