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South Carolina sees 'alarming' increase in measles cases, with 280 in quarantine

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16 points geox | 1 comments | 10 Dec 25 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.299s | source
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b3ing ◴[10 Dec 25 18:37 UTC] No.46221597[source]▶
Why is there a push against vaccines? Is it paranoia, propaganda fears that it turns you into a slave or do they just want to make sure the healthcare system makes more money?
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lolc ◴[10 Dec 25 23:35 UTC] No.46225607[source]▶
I think the main reason is the people who experienced the time before vaccines are dead. Vaccines were always scary but back then the people could see that they prevented bad outcomes. My grandmother grew up with kids crippled by the polio epidemic!

People today just don't know anymore how scary measles is. We lost that knowledge thanks to the success of vaccines!

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1. gus_massa ◴[11 Dec 25 15:48 UTC] No.46232841[source]▶
Yep. My late father was recruited to vaccinate people in the big polio epidemic in Argentina, probably in 1956. He was still in high school, but it was the oral vaccine and they needed all hands available.