COVID Update December 16: Why you won’t hear me use the phrase “anti-vaxxer.” 1/
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First let me tell you my opinion of vaccines. If they hadn’t been invented we would be so much worse off as a planet. It’s probably a more important invention than Tik Tok. 2/
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And the story of the first people who took vaccines is a story of “you’re serious. You’re going to put that in my body. GTFO.” But the story with small pox goes (more or less) the first does went to the vaccine makers kid & when it worked all the next went to the king’s kids. 3/
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But the king in this story was not an anti-vaxxer. He had legit questions. They did a (admittedly small) clinical trial and he was like “wow, great.” 4/
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In 2003 in Northern Nigeria, the world was on the cusp of Polio eradication when a rumor about a the vaccine caused a year long protest. That rumor turned out to have no substance but caused the world to lose years & $500 million in eradication efforts.5/
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Rumors have lots of power when there’s no good information or very legitimately limited information out there. And this was before the Internet, Russian bots, Rudy Giuliani, bot farms, and all the other ways bad things spread. 7/
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Replying to @ASlavitt
2003 was not "before the Internet". It wasn't even before social media.
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While technically true, all that existed then were blogs, Usenet newsgroups, and BBS, at least for most people. Having come from the 1990s on Usenet and started my first blog in 2004, I look at the pre-2002 (or so) Internet era as so different from now as to be, yes, another era.
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