The announcement of the polio vaccine's safety and effectiveness was on April 12, 1955, by Thomas Francis, Jr., of the University of Michigan, the monitor of the test results. Within minutes of his announcement to the audience of scientists and reporters, news of the event was carried coast to coast by wire services and radio and television newscasts. When the vaccine was announced as successful, it led to spontaneous celebrations across the United States. It was the world's first successful polio vaccine, declared "safe, effective, and potent." It was possibly the most significant biomedical advance of the twentieth century.

Literally 1955, dude. Holy fuck how do people get this stupid sadness-abysmal

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[–] 3 points 8 minutes ago

To be fair thats a YouTube comment with one thumbs up.

I am not saying there aren't plently of people who think this. What im saying is only idiots use and argue in YouTube comments, so it feels like theres much more of them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 hours ago* (1 child)

    I've had people argue with me that we don't know the safety of vaccines and we shouldn't just be putting random shit in our bodies. They said this while vaping. I also pointed out that vaccines have been around and effective for over 200+ years. Is the anti vaccine paranoia driven by a need to promote population decline by the ruling class? Could be. Are people just this braindead and credulous now that they'll listen to someone with negative medical credentials like that Kennedy dude or Rogan and become anti vaxx? Definitely. Overall it's a very dire situation. Just one more facet of societal decline under capitalism as it falls apart

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  • [–] 12 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Literally 1955, dude. Holy fuck how do people get this stupid

    Defunding public education?

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  • [–] 39 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    My aunt, who wears two leg braces because she contracted polio a few years before the vaccine was unavailable, is anti vax. She cannot walk because polio took it from her. She is anti vaccination.

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    Have heard someone in the extended family claim that polio only became an issue from environmental pollutants and has as far as I know avoided most vaccines for their kids, one of their parents spent most of their life in a wheel chair and was in an iron lung for a few years.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 hours ago

    blob-no-thoughts "Pfft, why should a bunch of aristocrats whacking a ball with a mallet from horseback make me stop believing renowned epidemiologists like RFK Jr. and Jenny McCarthy?"

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  • [–] 31 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    remember that the cia ran anti-vaccine campaigns in the philippines! it is not unreasonable to assume it may do the same at home.

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    John Titor himself went back in time to the 1700s and introduced them to vaccines. Edward Jenner was merely the patsy and was paid in black mana to take credit for the invention.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    My adoptive father is now antivax despite his parents meeting at a center to help people disabled by polio

    Neither of them were fully paralyzed but they had life long complications and his dad died earlier than he would have otherwise, leaving his mother a single mom of 7 kids

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  • [–] 34 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Isn't that a screenshot from Back to Future?!

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