If you live in a community with 98% vaccination rates, you can afford to be the 2%.
You can post wellness memes about "natural immunity" and still get herd immunity as a side effect.
Your child is statistically safe, not because of your parenting, but in spite of it.
https://www.theindex.media/the-herd-immunity-illusion/
https://www.theindex.media/the-herd-immunity-illusion/
@Daojoan The part of the article about the pandemic doing nothing to fix the anti-vaxx problem overlooks two details.
One, right-wing media actively sabotaged the sense of solidarity that was starting to form in the first month or so, seemingly on purpose. In the US, compassion and responsibility are divisive concepts, and not naturally so.
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@Daojoan Two, there is a difference between the COVID vaccines and something like the polio or MMR vaccines: it's not a perfect preventative, often simply making an infection less severe (I've experienced that myself!). That breeds skepticism over whether it's "real", especially in the context of conspiracy theories that COVID is "just a cold" and not deadly, which I recall predating the existence of the vaccine that made it like that.
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