Dan GillmorDec 27, 2022

Big Journalism is still largely unwilling to call things what they are. Today's example is the Washington Post's use of "vaccine hesitancy" to describe a movement that is based on rejecting science and evidence in favor of dangerous and, increasingly, politically motivated lies.

The people who reject vaccines are attacking their communities. They spread disease and death. We should recognize this, and say it out loud.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/

Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.

An Ohio measles outbreak among unvaccinated children comes at a time of heightened concern about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment.

The Washington Post
Show threadPeter PrincipleDec 27, 2022
@dangillmor By that standard, Typhoid Mary was "sanitation hesistant."
Show threadC0unt WAVnsteinDec 27, 2022
@jobsboils @dangillmor When we get another typhoid or cholera outbreak and anti vaxxers find that their simple minded certainties do nothing to protect them from shitting their entrails out before they shrivel up and die, then they might get the message.
Show threadPeter Principle

@C0_WAV @dangillmor Well, if COVID was any guide, they're more likely to lay dying in a hospital bed screaming at the doctor to tell them what's REALLY wrong with them.

Typhoid and cholera just being liberal hoaxes and all...

Dec 27, 2022 at 2:57pmWeb