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“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.

This is apparently the point where the “moderate” Republicans are willing to start pushing back — where they’ve got personal experience with just how evil a policy is.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
        23·
        14 days ago

        Yeah, my personal theory on antivaxxers is that they’re actually more afraid of autism.

        Because autism is a very visible thing; Everyone knew that one autistic kid growing up. But there are no crunchy moms who remember life before the polio vaccine, because they’re all too young. They literally can’t even comprehend how bad some of these diseases are, because they’ve never seen the effects of them. They never lost a childhood friend to measles, or had a sibling end up infertile due to the mumps. They never saw the entire hospital wings full of iron lungs for polio patients.

        To them, these diseases are boogeymen. But autism is very real, because they have seen it.

        • Irremarkable@fedia.io
          7·
          14 days ago

          Which is the only response to those morons is “so you’d rather your kid die than be autistic?”

          Make them admit it. Preferably in front of the kid.

          • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
            3·
            14 days ago

            There’s the issue though. They genuinely don’t believe the diseases are that bad. They don’t believe there is any risk of death, (or at least, that the risk is so low it’s negligible). So they wouldn’t admit it even if asked, because they would just say that you’re exaggerating.

          • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
            3·
            14 days ago

            Crunchy moms are the moms who push for the all-natural holistic new-age stuff. They tend to keep their kids away from technology, strive for all natural diets that avoid processed foods, homeschool their kids to keep them out of institutional systems, and (to the point I was making) they tend to avoid modern medicine vaccines. Because vaccines aren’t “natural”.

            Basically, they’re the essential oil moms.

    • orbitz@lemmy.ca
      5·
      13 days ago

      Only because it personally impacted him, if not he probably wouldn’t have said anything.