I hate memes like this, it’s as stupid and harmful as the “If you even look marijuana once you’ll end up selling your body for crack a week later” crap from the 1990s. And it’s stupid and harmful for the same reasons.
The reality is that the vast majority of antivax kids will be perfectly fine and never get any major vaccine-preventable Illness, and even if they do they’ll probably be ok. And that’s why memes like this are harmful. People on the fence can easily observe that these claims are false, that the anti-vax kids are not getting sick, and that can push them into becoming anti-vax themselves.
The reality is that the vast majority of antivax kids will be perfectly fine
I remember being incredibly jealous of my sister, because she got the chicken pox vaccine and I (born six years too soon to receive it) did not. Spending a week covered in itchy legions, bathing in oatmeal, and running a horrible fever sucked ass.
“Perfectly fine” is such cowardly bullshit. You’re inflicting undue pain and suffering on people entirely because you’ve shoved the misery of your own childhood illnesses down the memory hole.
People on the fence can easily observe that these claims are false
People who are on the fence have been terrified with fearmongering and pacified with placebos. They’ve been systematically lied to and they still aren’t sold, precisely because contagious diseases still regularly torment our friends and loved ones.
This shit is the same exact propaganda I remember the fucking smokers’ lobby puffing up people’s asses decades ago. Hell, I heard it from Comedy Legend Bill Hicks live, back when he was on his “Why can’t I smoke anymore?” arc. Then he got pancreatic cancer and completely changed his tune. Too late, because the disease put him in the ground at the tender age of 32.
But a congo line of “Why can’t I smoke any more?” comedians rolled up right behind his hearse, churning out that slop for a solid ten more years before so many of them were playing pallbearer to their friends and family that the jokes couldn’t land anymore.
That’s only thanks to the people that are vaxxing their kids. You’d prefer to just wait for this type of propoganda until the more personal harm actually becomes reality? Society has been there, it’s not a scare tactic like Marijuana will make you a crack whore. It’s tongue in cheek in the sense that as the antivax movement gains followers this can become an apropos statement.
Its frustrating, because I see too many people read the “Reefer Madness” media machine as this excuse to just smoke their fucking brains out. Like, they go the complete opposite direction and take the D.A.R.E. program as evidence that chronic consumption has no negative side effects.
Now we’re extending it to fucking vaccines? Pure insanity.
I’d prefer to not use propaganda at all and instead be honest with people:
Vaccines reduce your risk of getting serious illnesses, and if you get them anyway they tend to be mild.
Without vaccines, many people will get ill, many will be hospitalized, and many will die. Some will have permanent medical problems or even disabilities. We have no way of knowing who exactly these things will happen to until after they already get sick.
Most vaccine-preventable diseases have little to no treatment options after you get ill other than just waiting them out. Antibiotics do not work for most vaccine-preventable illnesses.
Vaccines have been medically proven to be very safe and very effective.
You can only catch a virus if someone else gives it to you. By getting vaccinated, you are protecting not only yourself, but all your friends, family, coworkers, and everyone else important in your life.
A minimum of ten people read your comment and downvoted you, not because you’re an anti vaxxer, but because they have the reading comprehension of a toddler 😂
I hate memes like this, it’s as stupid and harmful as the “If you even look marijuana once you’ll end up selling your body for crack a week later” crap from the 1990s. And it’s stupid and harmful for the same reasons.
The reality is that the vast majority of antivax kids will be perfectly fine and never get any major vaccine-preventable Illness, and even if they do they’ll probably be ok. And that’s why memes like this are harmful. People on the fence can easily observe that these claims are false, that the anti-vax kids are not getting sick, and that can push them into becoming anti-vax themselves.
I remember being incredibly jealous of my sister, because she got the chicken pox vaccine and I (born six years too soon to receive it) did not. Spending a week covered in itchy legions, bathing in oatmeal, and running a horrible fever sucked ass.
“Perfectly fine” is such cowardly bullshit. You’re inflicting undue pain and suffering on people entirely because you’ve shoved the misery of your own childhood illnesses down the memory hole.
People who are on the fence have been terrified with fearmongering and pacified with placebos. They’ve been systematically lied to and they still aren’t sold, precisely because contagious diseases still regularly torment our friends and loved ones.
This shit is the same exact propaganda I remember the fucking smokers’ lobby puffing up people’s asses decades ago. Hell, I heard it from Comedy Legend Bill Hicks live, back when he was on his “Why can’t I smoke anymore?” arc. Then he got pancreatic cancer and completely changed his tune. Too late, because the disease put him in the ground at the tender age of 32.
But a congo line of “Why can’t I smoke any more?” comedians rolled up right behind his hearse, churning out that slop for a solid ten more years before so many of them were playing pallbearer to their friends and family that the jokes couldn’t land anymore.
Right they’re so cynical.
That’s only thanks to the people that are vaxxing their kids. You’d prefer to just wait for this type of propoganda until the more personal harm actually becomes reality? Society has been there, it’s not a scare tactic like Marijuana will make you a crack whore. It’s tongue in cheek in the sense that as the antivax movement gains followers this can become an apropos statement.
Its frustrating, because I see too many people read the “Reefer Madness” media machine as this excuse to just smoke their fucking brains out. Like, they go the complete opposite direction and take the D.A.R.E. program as evidence that chronic consumption has no negative side effects.
Now we’re extending it to fucking vaccines? Pure insanity.
I’d prefer to not use propaganda at all and instead be honest with people:
Those are all great statements but would make for a lousy meme.
A minimum of ten people read your comment and downvoted you, not because you’re an anti vaxxer, but because they have the reading comprehension of a toddler 😂