• doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    So what's up with antivaxxers? I used to chalk it up to quaint endemic American insanity but this and other sorts of conspiracy shit has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years. Fuck, in the recent municipal elections here in Finland we had an entire antivaxx party

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      The greatest comment I've heard yet about this situation is that when you mix politics and science - you get politics. And the situation in the US continues to get worse and worse. The crazy guy in the hospital has poisoned his own brain with his toxic politics. He's decided to die before he allows himself to use his critical thinking skills.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      3 years ago

      In the United States, medicine is a racket. If you get sick, you go to a hospital, and they take all your money. Better to just wish the sickness away.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, but now you have people in Europe and other places with more socialised medicine going whole hog on anti vaccine nonsense. It's absolutely baffling. Is it just social media eroding people's brains at amazing speed?

        • Azarova [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Is it just social media eroding people’s brains at amazing speed?

          Probaby. I don't want to come off as "grr! social media bad!" because that's not what I mean but it is incredibly easy to switch your main source of news to social media, which then is also incredibly customizable. And since social media companies want you to continue using their site as much as possible to serve you ads, they recommend content similar to what you're already consuming and then it becomes very easy to slide down a rabbit hole into a completely different reality.

          I don't even know where to begin on how this could possibly be solved though.