No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
view the rest of the comments
To me the anti-vax thing is the worst “flat earther “ theory.
I suppose I’d buy not being first in line for a new one. There are manufacturing and logistical issues with any new product that might affect what you get
It depends what which country you live in.
On Lemmy, most of us live in Western Democracies, where you sort of can trust government agencies that checks their safety.
But in other countries, their public health department doesn't actually do a good job of checking if something is acually safe.
Some Black people were skeptical of thw Covid vaccines because they remembered this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study happening to them.
Just imagine a developing country where either they aren't democratic or has a very flawed democracy that's even worse than thr US, with corruption everywhere.
Like, say for example, the US replace the FDA with all trump lackeys and started approving medicine/vaccines that are dangerous.
I'd honestly look at what the doctors and experts in Blue States have to say about it, the US federal government is no longer trustworthy.
TLDR: If you live in actual democracy, sure, the vaccines are probably safe. But for those in authoritarian regimes or backsliding democracies, its kinda harder to trust the government.