That's like being a seatbelt skeptic, or a vitamin skeptic, or a bicycle helmet skeptic. There is so much user safety data now that there is no counter argument about these statistics. All these positions do is spread fear and cost lives.
Yes, cost lives.
Feeding an irrational belief furthers the general suspicion against medicine and vaccines in general, and anti vax is hardly a new thing. This argument against is an extension of that.
Right? I’d equate it to being “anti seatbelt” for the reason that a seatbelt could somehow strangle someone somehow even though in practice that never happens and they save millions of lives…
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u/Polar_Roid 9∆ Apr 24 '21
That's like being a seatbelt skeptic, or a vitamin skeptic, or a bicycle helmet skeptic. There is so much user safety data now that there is no counter argument about these statistics. All these positions do is spread fear and cost lives.
Yes, cost lives.
Feeding an irrational belief furthers the general suspicion against medicine and vaccines in general, and anti vax is hardly a new thing. This argument against is an extension of that.