• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    This is going to be an awful thing that will almost certainly lead to a lot of suffering and death, but watching McConnell’s impassioned and deeply personal stories about surviving polio just get totally ignored like a Democratic president’s supreme court nominee in his Senate was at least a little satisfying

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    Thank god our children will now all be saved from autism, definitely for sure a fate worse than a lingering death full of suffering by contracting measles.

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      To people who never had measles due to successful vaccines against it and polio, and autism isn’t curable or fixable and remains with the human condition, their “logic” is:

      • I don’t recall anyone in my family or friends having measles
      • I only recall hearing autism being a thing these days
      • Signs of autism shows up when vaccines are due for health
      • Ergo, we don’t need the vaccine and it makes them have autism

      Meanwhile I’m perfectly fine with having my autism even if it is a “side effect” of any vaccine, because I’d rather be into my hobbies and weird trivia than be stuck with polio.

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        I have multiple autistic people in my family. I have multiple autistic friends. My daughter has autism. That these people treat it like not only a fate worse than death, but a fate worse than a long-suffering death just makes me sick to my stomach.

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          Exactly! I’m autistic, and the fact that our now secretary of health believes autism is caused from vaccines is infuriating!

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      7 days ago

      He will, and say that you need to eat more bananas to heal yourself, or something equally stupid, like if you stopped shitting, it’ll go away.

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        something equally stupid, like if you stopped shitting, it’ll go away.

        I mean, this is not wrong.