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Girl Talk 16w
it’s insane the amount of new anti vaxxers there are. vaccines are the reason why most people don’t have to worry about getting polio??? Measles??? vaccines increase herd immunity. having a healthy diet doesn’t prevent u from getting sick w/o vaccines
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Anonymous 16w

we have it too good that people have started thinking this is just the way it is. like your friend who decides she doesn’t need her meds anymore because she feels better (because of the meds)

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Anonymous 16w

my dad is named after his uncle who died at age 11 from polio in the 1950s. people are forgetting too quickly what these diseases do

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

like the fallout from that death echoed through his family for years. my great grandma never really recovered, neither did my grandpa, and my grandpa had another brother who was died the same year as my grandpa (2020) but i never met because he was an abusive alcoholic.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16w

And dude like. Polio isn’t something you recover from. My grandmother’s husband got polio as a kid and survived, but had to deal with tremors n shit his whole life. The dude stopped being able to get in/out of cars without assistance and his vision degenerated so fucking rapidly and probably a whole slew of other things that I didn’t get to learn about

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