Comment on McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr.

• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • poplargrove@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If “crunchy moms” wasnt a typo whats it mean

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    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      new age-y

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