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.
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.