There seems to be people who are convinced getting infected is some sort of heroic effort, and vaccines are for the weak? I increasingly suspect this may be driven in some by fear of needles, which is exactly why letting people know this is a common condition is important.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1468628813710041091 …
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Yes, I wish we lived in a world where squashed the early outbreaks with effective mitigations, and then quickly got enough vaccines to vaccinate globally. Letting the virus continue to explore the whole @#$! fitness landscape like this really wasn't a good idea. But here we are.
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Agree! Was only talking about people who declare loudly and act like it's an act of heroism to avoid vaccination, like the person who is quoted. I'm getting some of that in my mentions. It seems like some of them are just afraid to admit a fear?https://twitter.com/MCBazacoPhD/status/1468663573954146310 …
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Good God 'barely a shrug'. During the Spanish Flu 1918 villages in Italy were hauling away the bodies by the cart load like something out of a medieval movie. Here thousands of children dead or paralyzed by polio. Wards full of iron lungs. Tristan needs to read more history.
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My husband's grandma in Ohio lost both parents in the 1918 flu epidemic. She said so many people had died they ran out of caskets so her parents were in big wicker baskets in the parlor. She talked about it her entire life.
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The Washington Post just had an interactive story about the Tenement Museum, which has features detailing the extent to which communicable diseases flourished in the late 19th/early 20th century tenements of NYC. Laws were passed to "clean them up".https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2021/tenement-museum/ …
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