And yes, I mean that we are going to see a bunch of kids killed or horrifically, permanently injured, and then support for vaccination will start rapidly climbing back up.
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I'm so sad it has to come to this and I hope we fucking re-learn why vaccines were our ancestors' wildest dreams
sep 4, 2025, 3:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh dear me, no. That's probably too optimistic. Look at the anemic response to school shootings. I'd put money on the response being "alas, measles - when will they find the cure?" And then demographic implosion will hit just as child mortality spikes.
sep 4, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
The measles vaccination rate reliably spikes in affected states when unvaxxed children die of measles in outbreaks in said states.
sep 4, 2025, 5:58 pm • 3 0 • view
We still haven't had a proper uncontained national measles epidemic but we're probably going to get one soonish as national vaccination rates keep dropping. That, I suspect, will change many ppl's behavior. Hardcore nuts will do what they do, but most ppl who don't vax their kids aren't committed.
sep 4, 2025, 6:02 pm • 4 0 • view
That's quite fair.
sep 4, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe one of these days I'll post some pages of my grandmother's genealogical research just so that more people can see how 30-50% childhood mortality rates were fairly normal not all that long ago
sep 4, 2025, 2:55 pm • 13 1 • view