Darkly funny that vaccines have worked so well for so long that folks have straight forgotten what it means to catch a real disease that could kill you instead of mildly inconvenience you.
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Also, I completely agree. People have become complacent, and the demons have come to roost as a result.
Same with the environment. “The environment’s fine! We don’t need all these regulations!” 🤦🏻♂️ “Fam, the environment is fine *precisely because* of those regulations.” 🙄
NBC News was reporting that in lieu of the measles outbreak, people are running to vaccinate their kids in record numbers, many of whom refused to vaccinate their kids prior to the outbreak.
Funny how they wanna propagate stupid shit until stupid shit hits the fan…
But even the inconvenience is nothing to sneeze at. I got the flu so bad this year that I missed a week of work and could barely care for my toddler. That could be a life altering event for someone without PTO and family support
This is why teaching history/listening to your grandparents are so important. My grandma told me the story of how her cousin with polio had to be carried downstairs and it's infuriating that people want to bring that suffering back. I really hope RFK Jr gets his reckoning
The internet age disrupted oral traditions so much that we have lost ancestral memory. It's not funny, it's profoundly depressing. We are a people without a conception of the past or hope for the future.
social media ruined a lot, too. long form blogging was an art. now everyone is pressured to condense information into bites for a waning attention span and stunted media literacy (and literacy in general ugh).
I was one of those long form bloggers, & now I write epithets that might be used by a fascist state to hunt me down. This world makes me so damn tired.
I used to write so much more so, i was kind of one of those bloggers too, on livejournal. I'm living with those same fears now as well. Stay safe online and off. have heart, we must make it through
And it wasn’t even that long ago. Before the Covid vaccine there were hundreds of folks dying daily. Seems to have been willfully forgotten by most everyone save doctors, nurses and next of kin.
How family couldn’t enter the same room to say goodbye to a dying relative for fear of viral spread…
…how Ward’s Island in nyc, our paupers field, was receiving the dead, buried by Rikers inmates in hazmat suits. How the NYT wrote serious piece on turning the island into a memorial to the dead.
You could say that about almost anything we rely on government to provide. People can’t conceive of what it will be like to lose health, education, ans welfare services provided by or funded by the government until the they are gone.
We've got a huge measles outbreak down here, and it absolutely infuriates me. It angers me even more to know that a child has died now because of being unvaccinated against measles. Children shouldn't have to die because of the stupidity of the adults around them.
We did have that pandemic that killed millions, not just within living memory but really, REALLY recently. There were so many bodies at city hospitals that they had to keep them in trucks?
Feels like "having vaccines" is not the sole or even major barrier to people understanding they could die.
It frustrates me so much because the COVID vaccine in particular is what kept my grandfather from passing sooner than he ultimately did. He caught COVID and managed to make it through with help from an infusion, but he wouldn't have made it if it weren't for the vaccine. Just.... ergh.
we need to wrestle every body down and jab them whether they like it or not. they wanna call mandatory vaccinations fascism, well then thats what theyre gonna get - what they deserve.
Apparently, people need to see it with their own eyes to believe it could happen to them. It would be AMAZING to have this conversation with Mitch McConnell.
Same with fascism and wars in the West. All these “leaders” and their voters never got the lessons of the past and they are leading us to the same disasters of the 20th Century.
I think this is true for so many things, including human rights. It's disturbing that so many lack the imagination and historical savvy to realize we don't want to go back on so many things.
Then again, that's how "make america great AGAIN" got so much support.
I have no idea how it is out there, but History lessons from mandatory schooling in Portugal covers from early civilization (very briefly) to the origins of Portugal up until recent times (1974) - including Western world history major points (WW I-II as well).
Unfortunately in the USA (and its state by state so it depends), it feels like we only learn about early America and history class rarely gets past WW1. It’s taught very bizarrely bc we just keep covering the same events virtually every year, just in more detail. Bizarre.
We got up to the 1970s (in the 90s). Teachers would act like they ran out of time, but my guess is:
1. It was hard to keep up with current events/summarize events in-process
2. Parents would come screeching in like hypersonic missiles if their precious baby concluded a parental opinion was Wrong
In Germany we spend the last two years learning about the 20th century, including both World Wars. At least it was like that 20 years ago and wtf, I feel so old now.
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Also, I completely agree. People have become complacent, and the demons have come to roost as a result.
It's like how there was a massive effort to prepare for y2k computer glitches, and when they didn't happen, people said "see it was hype!"
A huge, huge problem across the board.
Funny how they wanna propagate stupid shit until stupid shit hits the fan…
Texas are finding out. Sadly.
These fuckers couldn't win a debate so they decided to lock the doors & burn down the debate hall.
How family couldn’t enter the same room to say goodbye to a dying relative for fear of viral spread…
How Trump golfed.
They're gonna notice when they're gone but still wonder why they keep getting taxed for it.
Feels like "having vaccines" is not the sole or even major barrier to people understanding they could die.
Then again, that's how "make america great AGAIN" got so much support.
1. It was hard to keep up with current events/summarize events in-process
2. Parents would come screeching in like hypersonic missiles if their precious baby concluded a parental opinion was Wrong
It's still here.