A key feature of anti-vaccine thinking is that it can only emerge in a world in which the massive public health success of vaccines makes it possible to minimize the danger of infectious diseases; this might seem odd but lots of political thinking suffers from similar fallacies
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Replying to @PatrickIber
I think you're right that this fuels contemporary anti-vaxxers' dismissal of the severity of the diseases they're reviving, but anti-vaccine thinking has been around since the first vaccine (see this excellent history: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143120786/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_1X3QCb1ZYC42H … )
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Replying to @bedwardstiek @PatrickIber
Funny how the generation that benefited the most from New Deal-era programs systematically dismantled government programs for the following 40 years.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @PatrickIber
(Ronald Reagan was literally a New Deal Democrat early in his political life).
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His father was bailed out by WPA.https://books.google.com/books?id=-dSvWrJ6ooAC&lpg=PA20&ots=sUcvsIjkXN&dq=%22jack%20reagan%22%20wpa%20great%20depression&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q=%22jack%20reagan%22%20wpa%20great%20depression&f=false …
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