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Have to confess, Team Anti-Vaccine completely baffle me. If they don't want to be vaccinated, fine, but I'm sure they'll be ostracised in society, & quite right too, as they are helping to spread the virus. The anti-vaccine lobby is of course largely the same subset as COVID-deniers. Like it's not a real thing...
The suggestion that Bill Gates is some sort of ogre is just lol, too. How much has he given to charity? He's certainly done more for the human race than almost anyone - especially his critics - & it's bizarre he's being demonised.
Anti-vaccination movements have existed from the moment that national vaccination programmes were introduced. In the UK, widespread compulsory vaccination started with the Vaccination Act of 1853, which established mandatory vaccination for infants up to three months old, and the following Act of 1867, which extended this to children up to 14 years old. These parliamentary Acts were opposed immediately by members of the public, leading to the formation of the Anti Vaccination League and the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League.
Scepticism towards vaccinations can be seen in satirical cartoons of the period. These were published in anti-vaccination pamphlets distributed by activists and also in periodicals such as Punch.
Opposition was often regionally organised or based in certain cities (read more about this in ‘The child whose town rejected vaccines’). Anti-vaccination protests took place in urban centres across Europe and North America throughout the 19th century, with the Leicester demonstration march of 1885 drawing over 20,000 people.
19th century anti-vaccination propaganda
A horned monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them to symbolise vaccination and its effects.
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In Bodily Matters: The anti-vaccination movement in England, 1853–1907, Nadja Durbach argues that anti-vaccination protestors in the 19th century were largely working class, and that their protest was about feeling like second-class citizens without self-determination over their own bodies, as well as about a divide between an elite establishment and a community lacking trust in them.
We can follow this theme through to contemporary anti-vaccination movements around the world today. In Pakistan, India, East Africa and Afghanistan, suspicion of the motives of vaccination programmes – often seen as instruments of the West – has led to growing numbers of parents refusing to have their children vaccinated.
Whereas the anti-vaccination protests of the past once filled the streets of urban centres like Leicester, Ipswich, Milwaukee and Montreal, today they congregate online. Anti-vaxxers use websites like naturalnews.com, vaccineimpact.com and mercola.com and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to spread (mis)information and recruit new members to their cause.
Online groups and forums can provide invaluable support mechanisms for parents, but they are also spaces where the worried and vulnerable seek advice. This is particularly true of support groups for parents of autistic children, which are frequently targeted by anti-vaccination campaigners. In groups like these, one of the most important tools for spreading an anti-vaccination message is the meme.
Edward Jenner (19th century meme)
https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/Whf_BSkAACsAgwil
Fascinating stuff.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-reveals-why-hes-giving-away-his-90-billion-fortune-2018-2?r=US&IR=T
https://www.businessinsider.com/william-shakespeare-first-uk-man-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-2020-12?r=US&IR=T
The second jab is supposed to give the worse side effects.
Be careful of what you wish for.
placebo.
1a : a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder. b : an inert or innocuous substance used especially in controlled experiments testing the efficacy of another substance (such as a drug)29 Nov 2020
You've all got your various crackpot, bigoted, tin foil shite threads, please try and keep your poison confined to those threads.
TIA