Started out as some weird new age hippy bullshit and embraced by far right wing fools.
Started to see this bullshit on the rise with people vibing their way through deciding on the vaccination schedule (or not) for their children as early as the 90s (in my anecdotal experience). I’d just shake my head at younger boomers, people in my generation (Gen X), and even more so at Gen Y, since I seemed to run into so many in Gen Y that bought into the antivax nonsense. Definitely got into arguments with people over it.
It’s all so very stupid. My mom (boomer) and my grandmother (Greatest Generation) were both nurses and they were both livid about this new stupid trend back then. It’s only gotten stupider since then, apparently, now getting an endorsement from an Idiocracy that seized power.
It’s too bad it’s so hard to pass down wisdom to younger generations. Of course, conservatism intentionally makes that even harder to do. So many seem hell-bent on learning hard-knock lessons of about a century ago.
I blame social media. We have moved from shared media and expertise presented to us (including it’s faults) to listening the loudest and most obnoxious voices in the echo chamber of your choice.
We really do need social media regulation; instead of them being dopamine engines to fuel advertising there needs to be some semblance of control and exposing people to more than their chosen echo chamber or preferred content. It’ll be difficult to do, but doing nothing is patently leading to the breakdown of our societies all just to line the pockets of American tech billionaires and shareholders.
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Canada too?
We lost our measles elimination status in November
We aren’t far away and it will spread.
Can we get 4chan to start a new rumor?
“Anti-vax parents make children autistic”
I dunno, I think we have moots email from the files tho. Maybe we can trade for some jerky.
