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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon May 29

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted randytoad

    Disease severity denial has *always* gone hand-in-hand with antivaccine views. Pretty much ALL antivaxxers deny the seriousness of the diseases vaccines protect against. They were doing it pre-pandemic.https://twitter.com/randytoad/status/1398661607690063875 …

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    randytoad @randytoad
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    I don’t have a survey to back me up, but I think most of the COVID-19 antivaxxers are also COVID-19 seriousness deniers. I believe that if COVID-19 had a fatality rate more like smallpox, there would almost certainly be many fewer antivaxxers.
    8:27 AM - 29 May 2021
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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon May 29

        After all, according to antivax logic, if the disease being vaccinated against isn't that serious, then a vaccine against it is unnecessary.

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon May 29

        That’s the reason why antivaxxers also always vastly exaggerate the risks of vaccines. The purpose is to falsify the risk-benefit ratio to it seem that on balance craziness do more harm than good.

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      1. Tijana‏ @nistajaneznam May 29
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        Or at least for them personally. If they recognise that it’s serious for the elderly, they would say things like they’ll die soon anyway, and we, the healthy and the strong will survive.

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      1. Carolyn Parsons  🇦🇴 🇵🇹 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈 🖌 🐄 🔬‏ @Bongoangola May 29
        Replying to @gorskon

        Antivaxxers have been grossly understating the seriousness and dangers of the disease and grossly overstating the dangers of the vaccine for a long time.

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      1. Mike Babyak‏ @mababyak May 29
        Replying to @gorskon

        Early in the pandemic a friend who I hadn’t realized was antivax reposted a “revelation” that apparently was circulating in antivax groups—that the severity of polio had been exaggerated for the profit of docs, and was actually only a mild disease.

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      1. Jamie Johnston, VSWAM (Vaxed, Still Wears A Mask)‏ @SaskKiltie May 29
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        There is a definite ageist component to this, tied in with the co-morbidity crap they spout. If under 10s had been affected as the over 80s have been, the response would have been very different. Over 80? He was going to die soon anyway. :(

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