Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says

Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Sunday January 09, 2022 @10:10AM (#29863858)

I don't think I'd describe the black people who don't get vaccinated as "anti-vax". Black people have a well earned historical distrust of the medical community that's pretty much completely unrelated to the zeitgeist of the "anti-vax" movement.

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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by umanwizard on Sunday January 09, 2022 @11:21AM (#29864596)

Anti-vax is anti-vax regardless of how justified you may think the reasons are.

Anyway, if it’s justifiable to believe that the medical community is behaving untrustworthily towards black people, wouldn’t that be evidence that they’re unethical in general, and reason enough for anyone, black or not, not to get the vaccine?

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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by gruez on Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:57PM (#29866768)

>Black people have a well earned historical distrust of the medical community that's pretty much completely unrelated to the zeitgeist of the "anti-vax" movement.

As opposed to white people? Why does it matter whether you mistrust the US government because of Tuskegee Syphilis Study, or because of MKULTRA?

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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Sunday January 09, 2022 @03:26PM (#29866995)

It's really weird how people responding to me keep talking about distrust in the US government, when I was talking about distrust in the medical community.

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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by zepto on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:16AM (#29877047)

Presumably you know that significant parts of the historical “well earned distrust” that black people have of the medical community involve the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

So does the current drive for vaccination.

It’s weird that you don’t see the connection.

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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by Levitz on Sunday January 09, 2022 @11:57AM (#29865022)

Going down that line of thinking, I think every citizen out there can have legitimate distrust of their government.

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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by zepto on Sunday January 09, 2022 @11:24AM (#29864648)

I don’t see how they are unrelated at all. It sounds like you are saying they just don’t ‘feel’ like the same thing, but I see no reason for that other than racism.

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