I’ve said that many have a failure of imagination. Vaccine “controversy” is a good example. People alive when vaccines became available were aware of the horrors of childhood illness through observation and experience. Vaccine adoption rates were high. - ThreadSky

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mtnsteve.bsky.social • 8 days ago

I’ve said that many have a failure of imagination. Vaccine “controversy” is a good example. People alive when vaccines became available were aware of the horrors of childhood illness through observation and experience. Vaccine adoption rates were high.

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mtnsteve.bsky.social•8 days ago

-2 but given time and the disappearance of most illness that knowledge of immediacy has been lost. A wise person can read about measles or polio and realize while they have never seen anyone infected with either and infer they want neither for their child.

mtnsteve.bsky.social•8 days ago

-3 but the less wise can find a single statistic, make a sharpshooter argument that most children lived or weren’t terribly affected add some fallacious reasoning into the mix, “what is in those jabs in the first place?!” And what was once accepted is suspect or worse.

mtnsteve.bsky.social•8 days ago

-4 the wise may shudder but can’t change minds in the face of these flawed and deeply held beliefs. In the end, we all have to learn from painful firsthand experience again to have the majority experience enlightenment.

mtnsteve.bsky.social•8 days ago

-5 sadly a majority of us either through self absorbed indifference or our own stubborn insistence to believe our own thinking over facts are incapable of learning history and using that to imagine how are current circumstances track with a “distant” past.

mtnsteve.bsky.social•8 days ago

-6 I speak my mind. I’m trying to see the good in this. We will reach the other side. I think at best, this is such a disaster that maybe enough come to their senses and tides turn midterm , but realistically this will end in war, persecution of detractors and prolonged austerity.

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