So, my an online american friend said"My mom didn’t want to vaccine vax cuzs autism". Is he joking? I know many people say thing like that but i thought they all were joking?
In my country which is a third world country no one believe shit like that even my Grand mother who is illiterate and religious don’t believe thing like that and knows the benefit of vaccine.
United States citizens have reasons not to trust their government with their health. Trust takes a lot time to build, and recent administrations haven’t been building it.
400 not being treated for an illness seems quite different and low count vs preventive vaccination of population.
Yeah. We only betrayed 400 of our citizens. Why don’t the rest trust us?! (This is sarcasm.)
Joking aside, that’s just how trust works.
Also, the event you cited happened half a century ago. Does that mean that the conclusions of the medical research community simply never get to be trusted ever again until… something?
…therefore vaccines cause autism?
That’s part of the explanation for these people.
Therefore the advice of the CDC can’t be trusted.
I trust the CDC. I wish others would too.
I lost people I love to all of this anti-vax bullshit.
As part of my grief journey, I tried to understand.
And now I’m not inclined to mock those who mistrust the CDC.
Mocking them won’t bring my loved ones back, and it won’t save anyone else’s loved ones.
Their experience is different than mine, but it’s real to them.
We either talk about ways to rebuild that trust, or we accept that we’re going to keep losing loved ones. I choose not to accept it. It’s not easy, and it requires trying to understand their world and their hurts. But I’ve lost enough people, it’s worth it to me.
One does not have to trust the CDC; there are plenty of other sources one can get information from. To conclude that vaccines cause autism, one actually has to be extremely selective about ones sources. Put another way: the problem is not that people are not trustful enough, but that they are too trustful.
You seem to be very critical of my supposed mocking, but I have not mocked anyone for not trusting the CDC, so perhaps a little less projection is in order.