I mean anti-vaxxers believe vaccines to be essentially poisen, hence why they are opposed to them. They believe there are other remedies to cure diseases.
So to answer your question, yes they are worried but woefully misinformed.
If you think there are no anti-vaxxers in your country, you’ve got another thing coming.
Many of the anti-vax groups at the center of outbreaks are members of religious minorities. Mena ites, Amish, and Hasidic Jews. The reason it’s become more of a problem is that some upper middle class families have joined in and created more unvaccinated pockets in communities in the last decade.
For decades the conservative movement in the US has fostered a distrust in government and it has permeated just about everything.
Christ man, we’re screaming about it and have been for decades. Nobody will listen.
Americans are not a monolith. Tons of Americans are concerned. Tons are not. Also many Americans have lives where these issues the news typically stirs up don’t really actually impact their daily lives. Others are dramatically affected. It really depends on location and status, among so many factors.
Various news and online channels might have you thinking all Americans are basically the same and experiencing things the same, but they are definitely not.
With god as my armour I need no vaccines
But we hanged that dude on a cross, did you miss the news?
Yes but that was so he could absolve us of our diseases! Maybe. I’m not so knowledgeable of Christianity, I’m Republican.
Probably the same reason Europeans drink and smoke too tbh
The risk seems worth it. Either because the see it as lower than it is or that the loss of life less valuable than others see it.
Lack of education?
Science showed things like climate change, which was hurting the bottom line of giant corporations who donate huge amounts of money to Republicans, so Republicans convinced their base that science is against God, and that it’s all part of the evil woke liberals thing. So now anything that comes from science, including vaccines, is tainted.
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The people who aren’t idiots are already vaccinated so they’ll be fine.
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The people who are idiots think they are safer without vaccination. They are the ones who will die (or their children) but they aren’t aware of it.
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The people who can’t get vaccinated but aren’t idiots are kind of just screwed but this is an incredibly small minority of the population.
This is not true. Vaccination is not an all or nothing thing. Vaccines don’t work the same for everyone. Many vaccinated individuals rely on herd immunity for full protection. That is why vaccination of as many people as possible is so important. Vaccinated individuals will die due to weakened herd immunity.
People who are vaccinated are 100% going to die from mutated versions of diseases their idiot neighbours have been incubating.
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We’re actively disinformed. That’s why. It’s really that simple.
Because we also die from totally preventable school shootings too.
Sad thing is that I don’t think gun restrictions would work cos criminals get their guns unlawfully
You can’t make concentrated firearms to smuggle into a country. They’re bulky, expensive and made from metal. They’re not heroin. Also, most of those illegal guns were legally purchased in another US state with looser laws, not smuggled in from another country.
Which other countries with stricter gun restrictions than the US regularly have school shootings?
I don’t feel countries can be compared like that. School shootings are often carried out by juveniles who can’t lawfully get a gun. They’re committing mass murder showing they’re not law abiding. Realistically there’s so many guns in America that even making guns illegal wouldn’t prevent guns in the country.
Instead there’s other things that could help, such as training professionals to identify perpetrators and warning signs they’re going to attack. PSAs could be done so people can ID people around them.
^OP, here’s the answer to your question
(Intellectual laziness and uncritical acceptance of propaganda).
School shootings are often carried out by juveniles who can’t lawfully get a gun.
Cut this crap, this isn’t reddit. Most kids them get the guns from a relative or friend who obtained it legally and adequate storage laws reduce both suicides and homicides in kids. BTW, guns kill more kids now than cancer or car accidents, but only in the US. Your take is the best example of americans being unconcerned about preventable deaths.
Sure, the shootings won’t stop the day legislation changes. But it prevents more guns from entering the US, making it more difficult to get one, even illegally.
I get that some people in the states need guns. Some communities have a real danger from bears etc. But those people can get a license to own a gun, the way it works in most countries.
Yes hopefully it would. It’s a slow drawn out process though, and america isn’t an island. It’s not a fix
Because
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taxing the rich is a partisan stance
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people are unaware that the government would spend less on singlepayer than it spends currently dealing with middlemen
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a non-negligible number of people don’t believe in micro-organisms, nutrition, or cancer as it is understood by doctors
TLDR: decentralized education with zero funding makes a whole country of dumb assholes.
Congressional democrats have no interest in actual taxing the ultra wealthy either. It’s bipartisan to not “bite the hand that feeds.”
Well the last tax bill was written and passed by the GOP in 2017, it got 0 DNC votes in the house the first time and it passed but with 3 congressional violations which would otherwise protect budget bills from filibuster at the time and so it was filibustered, then it passed the house again with changes and then the Senate 51 to 48 with 0 DNC votes and this time was immune to filibuster.
Now they get to write the new bill again this time because it is about to expire.
We DO have an idea of the DNC tax plan from the Kamala Harris Campaign promising to tax unrealized gains over 1M and to remove the upper limit that rich people pay to Socia Security Taxes, while also keeping or lowering taxes on anybody who made less than 400k.
We also know that the previous Biden Administration supported the IRS and gave them every resource and incentive to Audit the Rich, which they absolutely did.
So I guess if you ignore literally everything that happens then you can make that claim. Take your pick: ignorant or liar, which do you claim to be?
It’s all posturing. When they actually have the power to fully pass tax bills they don’t. It’s only when they know it won’t become law that they pander to their voters. It’s all a show.
They have not had that power. We refuse to give them that power.
With that power we have every reason to believe they would tax the rich, any incentive to stand against this policy would be on the campaign trail: and they don’t use the card even then.
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To own the libs!
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Please send help
Help ? You mean prayers ?
“preventable disease” and “Americans” are very broad terms
Most of us are concerned.
The minority are concerned because the US government has done unethical and malicious medical stuff to minorities, which makes some level of hesitancy for those groups understandable. Not the cod oil instead of vaccines bullshit white middle class and up promote, that is pure snake oil propaganda.
Intentionally infecting black airmen with syphillus and giving them placibos instead of treatments so they could track long term effects.
As an example.
