Somehow I ended up digging through vaccine threads on Quora. They were depressing reads. Here’s an example of a question:
This was the Top Voted Answer:
“My grandmother was in pain nearly her whole life.
She was born normal and healthy, the proverbial middle child. However, at age 3 she got scarlet fever…and contracted polio while still recovering from scarlet fever. The polio vaccine wasn't available yet, in 1939.
The polio affected her right arm and her legs, specifically her left leg. She wore braces and used crutches nearly her entire life. Thankfully, FDR made it possible for all those afflicted with polio get free healthcare treatment, or she could have died. She was one of the lucky ones. She could still walk. Somewhat. Other people wound up in iron lungs or completely paralyzed.
Some people did die.
Others wound up like her former neighbor, who was paralyzed from the waist down and used a wheelchair. He had a specially equipped Lincoln Towncar with hand controls.
My doctor found out that I am no longer immune to the Measles, despite being vaccinated as a child. My insurance doesn't cover it, so I have to somehow find the funds to do it so I can be immune to the measles again and continue working without worrying about contracting it (because, ya know, there's a measles outbreak right now). I'm already disabled due to surgery complications, and a lengthy hospital stay will likely cause me to lose my apartment. I also got chicken pox as a child, no vaccine was available when I was a year old. Chicken pox stays in your body! It turns into shingles later on in life.
Why wouldn't you want to protect your child from that?!”
Of course this answer assumes that polio is not caused by say DDT poisoning or anything besides a contagious virus.
Now I believe that the person answering the question in this case was somewhat sincere as their story is a bit nonsensical and contradictory, but in reading the top voted answer to any general question regarding vaccine hesitancy (for Covid jabs and others) I noticed a clear advertising script. I looked through a few dozen of these. The Top Voted Answer never once in any way answered the person’s question about how to avoid jabs. Instead there was always a story with these elements:
There was a victim who is unable to get a vaccine for a “vaccine preventable disease” for a sympathetic reason. In some cases the vaccine was not available at the time (I saw this with fear mongering stories regarding the horrors of relatives catching both polio and Covid in 2020), was not available for that age group (one mother lamented her six month old baby catching measles from her antivaxxer sisters older kids) or the victim was in poor health/too immunosuppressed to take the jab in question.
If a vaccine was available at the time, the victim or the family member writing about it is absolutely 100% positive that they caught the disease in question from the contagious spread from some specific person who was not vaccinated even though they could have been.
The victim or family member is 100% positive that the illness or ailment they suffered from, often with a medical diagnosis to back it up, is that vaccine preventable disease and not anything else.
If concerns about side effects from vaccines are mentioned at all, they are brushed off as being not serious and are always much better to face than the horrors of the vaccine preventable illness.
100% vaccine efficacy is usually implied (get the jabs=don’t get the disease) except in some cases in an attempt to sell boosters waning protection is mentioned. Those jabs must be updated like a yearly subscription plan.
The concerns of the person questioning the jabs are brushed aside as being irrational or unfounded.
Antivaxxers are killing all of us good people with their selfishness. The answer to the vaccine hesitant person’s question was always that. You don’t want to be a bad person antivaxxer, now do you? Get the jabs, you idiot.
This. Was. Always. The. Top Voted. Answer. Never once did a lawyer type come on there and say “Hey what state are you located in? I might have child custody attorneys who can help you walk through your issues regarding medical consent to treatment with your children.” Not once was the top voted answer “Oh God you are worried about jabbing your children/yourself again with whatever due to some side effect? I had the same thing happen to me it was terrible! Let’s compare notes and see how we can heal.” Never once was the answer even a curious “Why are you hesitant?”
It seems more and more the entire world is operating on an advertising script. They always find the best palatible scripts for mudering the world.
There’s just no money to be made unless people are upsold on why they need an expensive and often counterproductive intervention. All that CO2 sequestering is profitable for someone!
This happy little lizard was chasing another one nearby our tent at the campsite at Nai Yang Beach. I’m glad to see the world still goes round despite our interventions.
Hopefully we don’t destroy the planet with our interventions while we’re at it, no matter how appealing it’s been made to sound…
My friend has ducks
I was texting her about duck eggs and it auto corrected to fuck eggs. That was weird!
I'm going through the "don't want to vaccinate" thing with my kitten and one thing that I'm learning is to keep my mouth shut about it. I told some recent house visitors that he wasn't vaxxed and they freaked out. A Muslim family, they viewed both the cat and by extension me as unclean.
As a result of this, and two other people who got an angry-face when I mentioned it, I share the fear of someone doing a secret vaccination. If I hadn't said anything, I wouldn't be as worried.
But on the other hand, more people should speak out. It would really help to have an ally in real life, and perhaps I do, but there is so much push back that I understand if they are being quiet about it.