• TheoryofChange [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      NOTE: If someone linked you to this article claiming that it shows that vaccines did not help fight infectious disease, they are wrong—and they didn’t read this article

      The bottom line is that sanitation—pest control, water filtration and chlorination, safe sewage disposal, milk pasteurization and other food safety, and public education about general hygiene—probably did more than anything else to reduce mortality rates, if only because these techniques were available decades, and in some cases centuries, before anything else. Antibiotics were dramatically effective when they were finally introduced, but by this point a lot of the work had already been done. Vaccines too were extremely effective, but merely delivered the coup de grace for many diseases.

      I wonder what conspiracy they are referencing

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        Weird how shit like measles gets essentially eradicated but then you antivax dipshits who literally do not understand biology at the level of a high school freshman hoot and holler like imbeciles until you’re allowed to go without vaccines and then, huh, wouldn’t you know it, it’s come back. Almost like washing your hands doesn’t do shit against incredibly infectious airborne viruses!

        You should be burnt alive for how harmful the idiocy you’re attempting to spread is, you stupid fucker.

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          Sorry you’re offended by statistics.

          And similar patterns hold for lesser killers such as measles, which didn’t have a vaccine until the 1960s, but which by then had already declined in mortality by more than 90% from its 1900 levels.1,4

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    It’s entirely possible the mod doesn’t know what luddites are…

    But you definitely don’t OP.

    They didn’t “hate tech” they protested by destroying looks because that was the way to make the wealthy listen.

    Their goal wasn’t to stop looms, and they didn’t lose.

    Their goal was to make sure the profits of automation trickled down to workers via higher pay for less total hours.

    You seem to have fallen for propaganda…

    And not just a little bit, your entire account is based off you have a fundamental misunderstanding of something that appears important to you.

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      Gee, I had no idea socialism was so popular in England before Marx. And somehow they only started caring about fair distribution of profits when their jobs were being taken by machines. Whatever helps you sleep at night.