Everyone gets excited over “I Voted” stickers, so why don’t we have “I Got a Flu Shot Today” stickers? Pharmacies should have rolls of these at the counter. People could proudly display their sticker or else complain on social media that their local CVS or whatever didn’t do stickers and then we can all shame CVS into buying more stickers. It would be a public health breakthrough to be quite honest.
More places need to do what Walgreens does because I plastered this pic EVERYWHERE when I got my flu shot
Heck yes.
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#yes this #although I think for best results it does need to be a separate sticker and not a patterned bandage #who’s going to see a sticker on your upper arm during turtleneck season? #illness tw? #influenza #vaccines
-“y’all need moar autism” -“I’m trying but they won’t let me get any more vaccines”
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #autism #vaccines #conspiracy theories #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
#storytime #medical cw #conspiracy theories #vaccines #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what
Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.
But something else happened.
Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.
“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.
Like many viruses, measles is known to suppress the immune system for a few weeks after an infection. But previous studies in monkeys have suggested that measles takes this suppression to a whole new level: It erases immune protection to other diseases, Mina says.
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#illness tw #needle tw #biology #the more you know
It was in Ancient Egypt, where it attacked slave and pharaoh alike. In Rome, it effortlessly decimated armies. It killed in Syria. It killed in Moscow. In India, five million dead. It killed a thousand Europeans every day in the 18th century. It killed more than fifty million Native Americans. From the Peloponnesian War to the Civil War, it slew more soldiers and civilians than any weapon, any soldier, any army (Not that this stopped the most foolish and empty souls from attempting to harness the demon as a weapon against their enemies).
Cultures grew and faltered, and it remained. Empires rose and fell, and it thrived. Ideologies waxed and waned, but it did not care. Kill. Maim. Spread. An ancient, mad god, hidden from view, that could not be fought, could not be confronted, could not even be comprehended.
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35 years ago, on December 9th, 1979, humanity declared victory.
This one evil, the horror from beyond memory, the monster that took 500 million people from this world – was destroyed.
You are a member of the species that did that. Never forget what we are capable of, when we band together and declare battle on what is broken in the world.
December 9th was when it was first declared eradicated by a group of scientists. Their conclusion was endorsed by the WHO on May 8th, 35 years ago today.
The firefighter one is awesome, but how could you die before the aviation one?! ”you would be ARRESTED and sent to JAIL for…I’m not sure, probably a lot of things”
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#vaccines #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Penn & Teller kill the anti-vaccination argument in just over a minute.
This is why Penn & Teller are personal heroes
Probably the educational comic I’ve had to link to most is The Facts in The Case of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, by Darryl Cunningham, which is a total deconstruction of the bullshit that STARTED this whole idea. It’s a fascinating read!
The “vaccines causes autism” lie was research sponsored by a company wanting to discredit their competitors (you know, the Big Pharma anti-vaxxers are so het up over), issued horribly painful, invasive procedures on children against guidelines, and was generally Very Bad Science that did NOT actually care about the well-being of children.
However, it plays into people’s fears about autism, science, and vaccines, and so people risk the health of CHILDREN AROUND THEM to satisfy their completely irrational fears. (This is why the “they’re just trying to protect their children!” argument holds no water with me. You want to protect children? You ain’t doing it by purposely denying vaccinations to your healthy child, thereby exposing immune-weakened kids, the ones who really CAN’T get vaccinated, to possibly fatal, crippling diseases. You’re sacrificing other people’s children FOR YOUR SELFISH DESIRES. You fucking prick.)
Despite being taken down and proven wrong again and again, people continue to BELIEVE this bullshit because it FEELS real, because it’s been around so long it MUST be true. They knew this autistic kid once who became autistic after their vaccinations, so correlation MUST be causation, and also autism is totally worse than fucking measles. (Cluebat, people: it ain’t. Not even CLOSE.)
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#vaccines #lying bastards #as it happens I got my annual flu shot and my decadal tetanus shot yesterday #both of my upper arms are sore but it’s *completely* worth it
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