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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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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"The human body knows what it's doing" Human body: *Attacks one of its own organs because of one of a handful of reasons*
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Human body: *Detects the "wrong" food and tries to destroy itself via immune system in response*
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Yeah I absolutely would have died at birth, at most a few months after if I got majorly lucky.
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As if all human organs are perfectly in sync with each other at birth, no questions asked. Impossible for your brain to identify in a way your body doesn't respond to. *eye roll*
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Literally the entire point of civilization is not letting that happen!
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I hate to break it to everyone, but humans and their technology are a natural phenomenon, in the same category as exploding stars.
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Animals are Nature. Humans are Animals. So the tools we create and use, are natural. The device you are using to read this, is a part of the natural world. :D
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Yes, we should definitely abolish maternity wards and all special science-based care for pregnant women
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As someone who spent years studying 19th children's lit & childhood history, I lose my mind at the antivaxxers. Go read letters by parents whose toddlers just died of smallpox or diphtheria. Or accounts of teens w/tuberculosis. Or babies disabled by exposure in utero to rubella
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You can read stories from the late 20th & 21st centuries of poor parents in parts of Asia & Africa traveling hundreds of miles with their kids to get them vaccinated against polio or tb so they don't become disabled & ill like their unvaccinated siblings.
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