Re:Anti-vaxxers make up to $1.1B for social media companies
by notahacker on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:35AM
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As vaccines are not 100% effective at saving individuals but "herd immunity" can eliminate viruses despite that if vaccination is widespread, the people killed by anti-vaxxers are often not anti-vaxxers or even anti-vaxxers' kids. Especially not with a virus like Covid.
Technically the gullible and mendacious killing the vulnerable is natural selection, but you'll have a tough job convincing me the right of morons to an mass audience on certain websites takes precedence over the right of older people to live
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Re:Anti-vaxxers make up to $1.1B for social media companies
by JohnTHaller on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:03AM
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My Dad got the vaccine and developed no antibodies. Nor did any other kidney recipients under his doctor's care. The immunosupressive drugs he's on are the cause.
Re:Anti-vaxxers make up to $1.1B for social media companies
by Retric on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:43AM
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That’s a well reasoned counter argument, but the tone is overly hostile.
Re:Anti-vaxxers make up to $1.1B for social media companies
by notahacker on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:07AM
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Fair point (although I wasn't the first person in the thread to use a derogatory term about antivaxxers, and probably wouldn't use it if I actually expected there were plenty of people somewhat sympathetic to their arguments browsing this forum)
I do think the fact that people die as a result of this messaging is worth emphasising though, particularly when weighed against the supposed human right to use Facebook to disseminate their speech.