I've seen many say "so what if people reject vaccines, refuse to wear a mask, or drink raw milk, it's Darwinism." Well, the risk of viruses mutating into more deadly forms increases when they are allowed to spread. Individuals ignoring public health practices harms everyone. - ThreadSky

luckytran.com • 110 days ago

I've seen many say "so what if people reject vaccines, refuse to wear a mask, or drink raw milk, it's Darwinism."

Well, the risk of viruses mutating into more deadly forms increases when they are allowed to spread. Individuals ignoring public health practices harms everyone.

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catebridget.bsky.social•110 days ago

it’s also the opposite of Darwinism. evolution happens through the living, not through death. the “cleansing” action of death is literally Social Darwinism, the opposite of Darwinism.

elchief.bsky.social•110 days ago

Nailed it!!!!

titaniumteddybear.bsky.social•110 days ago

Lack of vaccination and food safety also create an additional burden on the healthcare system.

My wildcard theory is that these anti-science loonies are secretly funded by the healthcare industry, because when they get sick it will raise profits by 0.000001%

🙃

nhcounselor.bsky.social•110 days ago

…especially people at high risk

billbohanhi.bsky.social•110 days ago

IYKYK

huprice.bsky.social•110 days ago

Spot on - Thank You, Lucky!

lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social•110 days ago

These people have children! I understand why people want to laugh about the raw milk, but I don't want their children hurt!! 🫠

seentoomuch.bsky.social•110 days ago

I have so heard so many antivaxxers criticize the COVID vaccine because of the continued need for COVID boosters and I just want to scream "It's because of you!" at them constantly.

jessegraves.bsky.social•110 days ago

People need to learn quickly that you can't aim a plague like it's a guided missile.

make-it-make-sense.bsky.social•110 days ago

I’m working on a thread now to explain how the Trump administration will allow anyone to claim a “religious” exemption without any proof to any preventive care ever. It’s a doozy.

sleepyzane.bsky.social•110 days ago

the people who say that are ok with eugenics. they say it because they presume they will not die. but we are all one day day away from disability. cruel, inhuman, selfish, and shortsighted.

morgan666.bsky.social•110 days ago

And do we even have evidence that susceptibility to pseudoscience and conspiracy theories is genetic?

luckytran.com•110 days ago

For better or worse, public health is a group project.

markstewart.bsky.social•110 days ago

Except that in Australia the gov has left the project group and now has zero interest in public health. 😡

floweringlight.bsky.social•110 days ago

And we all know how well group projects work in school 😑

3dogrunner.bsky.social•110 days ago

It is why we don’t call it personal health.

richardbellavance.bsky.social•110 days ago

I was about to reply "it's not called *public* health for nothing".

hudzinachick.bsky.social•110 days ago

Also, much like people who wouldn't mask or get vaccines in the early part of the pandemic who then caught COVID, they took up healthcare resources. (And still may, if they developed Long COVID.)

Healthcare is now very strained, and making it more so through willful ignorance is not reassuring.

fenrir696.bsky.social•107 days ago

The majority in the US chose an anti-science President who will institute climate policy to destroy our entire planet, so who gives a proverbial if millions of Americans die from preventable diseases? They absolutely love a spoilt little rich boy with brain worms running an anti-vax health system.

beloit-bioarch.bsky.social•110 days ago

And misunderstandings of natural selection have kinda been used for horrifying things in the past, so maybe let’s not justify complacency by invoking Darwin.

rebeccaaweber.bsky.social•110 days ago

Also, we really should have compassion for the misguided and not want them to die.

I say this as a severely immunocompromised person who has pretty much been isolated for almost five years. If I can have compassion for the people who are advocating things likely to harm me, others can as well.

krakoan-lorax.bsky.social•110 days ago

Also Darwin explicitly stated humans do not necessarily advance along the lines of "survival of the fittest", and that empathy, compassion, and cooperation are our greatest evolutionary strengths

greenmtgirl.bsky.social•110 days ago

Neo-Darwinians don't get Darwin at all.

walmsley.bsky.social•110 days ago

also, it's not just people making stupid decisions for themselves, it's them making stupid decisions for their kids. no infant is making an informed personal decision about vaccination.

thebrickcastle.com•110 days ago

Not only that, but we all get where we are because of the interactions that lead to that point. Most of these people have been misinformed by someone who didn't care about them, and just wanted to make money or feel like they were famous, popular or powerful.

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