Cannot count the number of articles that I've seen that act like Kennedy just didn't exist before his failed run for president. Like he didn't create and get rich of the modern anti-vaxx movement. Like he hasn't been slow walking us to this moment for two decades.
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Racist and thoroughly self-absorbed
He's one of the reasons why the rate has gone down. Like... Fuck
“As an over-educated rich liberal who looks down on middle America from my Manhattan high rise, I think you should definitely not vaccinate your children.”
Because nobody listened to us.
If only there was some way for the New York Times to have known this. Like, say, this 2019 article that ran in ... the New York Times.
https://amp.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article17814440.html
Oh, wait, maybe they're all like Merlin? Living backwards through time, our collective past an impossible mystery to them.
this was written in 2017, referencing events going back to 2005.
It's already happening.
But give it time.
The data will aggregate and we will see the trend emerge.
It won't be easy or as accurate, but when the infant mortality creeps high enough and everyone knows someone who has a baby died of whooping cough, word will get out.
It's the square one fallacy: we've never looked into this, apparently. It's all new.