The antivax belief system and the "wellness culture" it comes out of is based on a falsehood created by modern medicine - the idea that the natural state of the human body is "wellness", that health is our birthright, and that sickness is an alien and abnormal intrusionhttps://twitter.com/lynsautigers/status/1334720273984131072 …
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It is extremely frustrating watching antivaxers and TERFs pop off about letting "nature take its course" because "the human body knows what it's doing" As though it wouldn't be the most natural thing in the world for them to have died at the age of two of infectious disease
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As one of the five out of nine babies their mother bore who died before they were old enough to talk Before she also keeled over in her 60s from the stress her nine pregnancies exerted on her body, at what was considered a ripe old age for the time
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There’s a very strong “noble savage”/fall of eden/plague of modernity layer to all of this, especially when food is a factor. I don’t know how familiar you are with all the angles of these subcultures, but a huge pat of it is this sentiment that modern “processed” food is the-
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-reason for a lot of illness in general. But there’s no rigorous analysis of WHY. The “artificial” things in food that they fear are no more well defined or plausible than Thetans or whatever in Scientology.
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That's mentality is used to deny disabled people from getting assistance and treatments.
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Try telling these people that being autistic is perfectly normal, and watch the worm squirm
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This is my frustration not only with anti-vaxxers but a lot of “natural is better” things. Do you know how many infectious diseases and congenital issues used to just kill people back in the day?!
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