Autistic people tend to travel together because we find similar social norms natural. I know a ton of old guys who were just weird in their era but would absolutely be diagnosed today.
There is no humane way to test a vaccine to the standard that anti vaxxers demand.
If the vaccine works, every vaccinated person released into the population is 1 person who cannot spread the disease. That means that the unvaccinated population will also get sick less often because they got exposed less often. That means that we need to isolate the vaccine and no vaccine groups from the general population to get reliable data. Except now we isolated our groups which may cause them to not get exposed to the disease. Ok, so that requires intentionally exposing 2 groups of people to a disease then withholding medical care from one of the groups. That is Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment levels of absolutely immoral to any sane person and would never ever pass an ethics review board.
So now you face a choice. Be the next Mengele, or stop all research into the concept of vaccination forever causing all harms globally that would have been prevented by working vaccines. Both would put you on the list of greatest villains in human history.
There is no 0 risk path forward. The solutions presented by anti vaxxers are worse than the current path, though there may be ways to improve.
And yes I know I'm reasoning against a cult position which is a total waste of my effort.
I like to think I'm above falling into full cult mindset. I try anyway, like here with you :)
I see your point on the experiment, though it's a bit exaggerated. You do say there's room for improvement, which I agree on. From what I gather the issue is a rapid increase in them while at same time protecting manufacturers; that's pretty much my whole position actually.
FWIW, im a bit weird too, and I like it that way.
Not a fan of special callout legal protections, but not a fan of laws in general either.
Every new invention brings out a wave of luddites declaring it the destruction of civilization. We're still here. Science doesn't scare me, the law does.
Even our mistakes like lead, asbestos, and CFCs have generally been resolved in a generation once we spotted them.
Avoid if you wish. I'd argue that anti vaxxers dying of diseases with working vaccines is evolution putting its finger on the scale favoring intelligence. The vaccines definitely have tiers of scientific support and people who only see all or nothing are making a mistake in critical thinking.
Very reasonable, and in line with my beliefs

Now we hold our breath and wait to see if a "legally mandate all vaccines" or "legally ban all vaccines" cultist shows up to tell us how wrong we are first. Bsky, I'd bet option 1 but I'm going option 2 on nostr.
Easy bet haha. Try not to get swept up in outrage du jour, but this new push for health reform seems overdue, so I'm liking the discourse for time being
The last round of health reform only made things worse. The people leading the current push are also arresting people for skin color and doing everything short of saying the word eugenics.
The guy leading our healthcare system has no medical or science training but he did have his brain eaten by a parasite and likes to take his grandkids swimming in sewage.
I don't exactly have high hopes.
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How about this?
YOU CANT FUCKING FORCE ME OR MY FAMILY INTO MEDICAL PROCEDURES.
Does that make sense to you???
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