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Antivaxxers will gleefully bring back polio and the plague.
What scares me are the many recent scientific reports about the likelihood of glacial melting bringing back pathogens we have no resistance to, coupled with this antivax bullshit. That’s a doomsday scenario. (eta: because herd immunity and containing pandemics seem like lost causes now.)
Don't forget about the increasing ineffectiveness of antibiotics!
Stupidity kills.
Unfortunately it's not always the stupid that die but the vulnerable.
True.
I was browsing tinder yesterday and just thought that there is a influx of antivaxxers. Pretty disgusting.
Good, I'm sorry but, fuck around, find out. There are absolute truths
If they were the ones finding out I'd be fine with it, unfortunately it's their kids...