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CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL (thelemmy.club)
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[-] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

I hate that the American rights brain death spread so hard across the world.

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

You are not wrong, but I also want to say that the antivax movement started in the UK with Andrew Wakefield. Then US made it way more widespread.

[-] rapchee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

and he started with "you shouldn't combine vaccines, instead buy my relative's single vaccines!"

[-] dmention7@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

I hate that I didn't immediately spot this as satire. It wasn't until I reread it and digested "mild cases of death" that I realized it wasn't some antivax nonsense. ☹️

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