Anti-vaxx freaks have been putting the work in for these results for decades.
Yep, and now all those smooth-brained fuckwits are going to get validated.
RFK was one of the biggest spreaders of disinformation when Covid started, so I think at the very least he was a major contributor to that initial decline in 2020. Unless OP is talking about that decline from 2012-2015?
I agree, people have been getting gradually stupider.
Right. It started exactly when Covid vaccines became a thing. Dumb asses who spent their entire lives not being anti vax started to become anti vax for all types of vaccines when the MAGAs started to push back on covid vaccines. The pandemic rotted peoples brains.
It’s because no body trust the government, so now anytime they tell you anything people just do the opposite.
Its been 27 years since Andrew Wakefieid started lying and doing dangerous medical procedures on children to make money on separate MMR vaccines.
The year everyone was told to stay home and keep their kids out of school is the year rates fell. Nobody was allowed to go anywhere and people had another disease on their mind they were reminded of all day everyday.
Except that RFK Jr.’s anti-science dates back to at least 2005. He’s not the sole cause of this insanity (the fraudster Andrew Wakefield is a good one to start with) but his history on this well predates 2011 (the start of this graph).
You used to be able to predict measles outbreaks by where there were Whole Foods
A certain subsection of our society are in a catch 22. They’re desperate for people to have more workers.. Um I mean children… And yet they’re desperate for them to die from preventable illnesses.
This is a trend of Americans deteriorating. Sometimes it is just lowest common denominator getting lower but foreign enemies are trying to slander vaccines in the west too. People are definitely becoming much worse citizens. I lobby. Most of what a congress member does all day used to be illegal. Americans today are never up to pushing any sane or rational reforms according to congress staffs. They always assume an adultier adult is doing the heavy lifting of citizenship so they can goof off and hire dictator messiahs. They don’t even care to find out how bribery was legalized in campaign finance and are unquestionably statistically more likely to be croaking a relative than lifting one finger to send an email on campaign finance reform. And that would be the only method to ever have a working republic again.
Bet on the bad guys in America.
Imagine the excitement of Russia and others as they see us literally destroying ourselves and choosing disease, death, and outdated technology *intentionally* while they happily continue to live in the modern world?
This could be the best way to avoid permanent Idiocracy… controversial, maybe, but I’m scared for the future.
Yes, the pandemic drove millions of people inside after the most atrocious waffling of misinformation from the government and authorities. So many went in with a healthy if not misplaced mistrust of authorities and spent too much time reading unchecked bullshit pseudo science as people were desperate for answers. Also plenty of shot fatigue and general hesitancy from the rushed MrNA shots, that again, was not well supported by many politicians and talking heads as well as outright attacked through misinformation on social media. It was just an acceleration on what had been going on through the same channels for years. So here we are, RFK is just another unqualified hack being propped up for an incredibly important position.Â
Anti-vaccination sentiment used to be as much a crunchy-granola-coded thing as an right-wing anti-government thing. But then COVID happened and opposition to doing *anything* to stop the spread was suddenly proof that you were a sad liberal loser who hated the idea of people enjoying themselves and/or making money.
Yes, this is troubling. But that graph is not beautiful data. It’s incredibly misleading.Â
I hope pediatricians continue to provide the shots.
RFK Jr. have been spreading Vaxx misinformation for 25 years.
No, the graph clearly shows a reaction to the COVID era of vaccine skepticism which RFK Jr has already ‘created content’ for. As many feared, ‘understandable’ skepticism about the ‘new’ COVID vaccines has spread so now people are not vaccinating their kids against polio etc….
He isn’t the only conspiracy theorist who did his own research and went on to establish a platform.
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Anti-vaxx freaks have been putting the work in for these results for decades.
Yep, and now all those smooth-brained fuckwits are going to get validated.
RFK was one of the biggest spreaders of disinformation when Covid started, so I think at the very least he was a major contributor to that initial decline in 2020. Unless OP is talking about that decline from 2012-2015?
[Source](https://www.factcheck.org/2023/08/scicheck-rfk-jr-s-covid-19-deceptions/)
I agree, people have been getting gradually stupider.
Right. It started exactly when Covid vaccines became a thing. Dumb asses who spent their entire lives not being anti vax started to become anti vax for all types of vaccines when the MAGAs started to push back on covid vaccines. The pandemic rotted peoples brains.
It’s because no body trust the government, so now anytime they tell you anything people just do the opposite.
Its been 27 years since Andrew Wakefieid started lying and doing dangerous medical procedures on children to make money on separate MMR vaccines.
The year everyone was told to stay home and keep their kids out of school is the year rates fell. Nobody was allowed to go anywhere and people had another disease on their mind they were reminded of all day everyday.
Except that RFK Jr.’s anti-science dates back to at least 2005. He’s not the sole cause of this insanity (the fraudster Andrew Wakefield is a good one to start with) but his history on this well predates 2011 (the start of this graph).
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-robert-f-kennedy-jr-distorted-vaccine-science1/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-robert-f-kennedy-jr-distorted-vaccine-science1/)
You used to be able to predict measles outbreaks by where there were Whole Foods
A certain subsection of our society are in a catch 22. They’re desperate for people to have more workers.. Um I mean children… And yet they’re desperate for them to die from preventable illnesses.
This is a trend of Americans deteriorating. Sometimes it is just lowest common denominator getting lower but foreign enemies are trying to slander vaccines in the west too. People are definitely becoming much worse citizens. I lobby. Most of what a congress member does all day used to be illegal. Americans today are never up to pushing any sane or rational reforms according to congress staffs. They always assume an adultier adult is doing the heavy lifting of citizenship so they can goof off and hire dictator messiahs. They don’t even care to find out how bribery was legalized in campaign finance and are unquestionably statistically more likely to be croaking a relative than lifting one finger to send an email on campaign finance reform. And that would be the only method to ever have a working republic again.
Bet on the bad guys in America.
Imagine the excitement of Russia and others as they see us literally destroying ourselves and choosing disease, death, and outdated technology *intentionally* while they happily continue to live in the modern world?
This could be the best way to avoid permanent Idiocracy… controversial, maybe, but I’m scared for the future.
Yes, the pandemic drove millions of people inside after the most atrocious waffling of misinformation from the government and authorities. So many went in with a healthy if not misplaced mistrust of authorities and spent too much time reading unchecked bullshit pseudo science as people were desperate for answers. Also plenty of shot fatigue and general hesitancy from the rushed MrNA shots, that again, was not well supported by many politicians and talking heads as well as outright attacked through misinformation on social media. It was just an acceleration on what had been going on through the same channels for years. So here we are, RFK is just another unqualified hack being propped up for an incredibly important position.Â
Anti-vaccination sentiment used to be as much a crunchy-granola-coded thing as an right-wing anti-government thing. But then COVID happened and opposition to doing *anything* to stop the spread was suddenly proof that you were a sad liberal loser who hated the idea of people enjoying themselves and/or making money.
Yes, this is troubling. But that graph is not beautiful data. It’s incredibly misleading.Â
I hope pediatricians continue to provide the shots.
RFK Jr. have been spreading Vaxx misinformation for 25 years.
No, the graph clearly shows a reaction to the COVID era of vaccine skepticism which RFK Jr has already ‘created content’ for. As many feared, ‘understandable’ skepticism about the ‘new’ COVID vaccines has spread so now people are not vaccinating their kids against polio etc….
He isn’t the only conspiracy theorist who did his own research and went on to establish a platform.
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