Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

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I have an old friend from years ago who I now keep in touch with on Facebook. Her posts are fascinating in the amazing variety of conspiracy theories, some outrageous, some maybe partially true. She's a big believer that cannabis oil will cure just about anything and that information of course is being suppressed by the drug companies and the government.

She blames many, if not all, health problems on vaccines. She also subscribes to some disturbing anti-Semitic ideologies, blaming the network of high powered Jews, led by the evil Rothschild family.

I swear, the internet has turned slightly eccentric people into extremists. 30 years ago this woman was into macrobiotics, native Americans, and New Age philosophies.

Another shill for Big Soap.

Ahahhaaaaaaa!!!

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I wonder if the anti-vaccine people are the same people I see leaving the bathroom without washing their hands?

That was rude and uncalled for.

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It's interesting that public health is not at stake apparently when it comes to HIV or even full-blown AIDS.

Possibly because HIV isn't as easily transmissible as people believed it to be in the 1980s. You cant catch it from touching a contaminated surface, or from hugging someone. colds and flu, much more easily transmissable

As for AIDS, due to advances in retroviral therapy HIV is no longer the same death sentence it once was, people live long happy lives

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There was definitely no quarantine or other public health measure in the beginning. I lived through that time so don't even think of telling me there were. This known killer disease was so politicized that normal public health measures were suspended in dealing with it.

Instead people generally resorted to uninformed mass hysteria.

Eve Van Grafthorst one example of how people with the disease were run out of town and country.

I lived through it as well

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I wonder if the anti-vaccine people are the same people I see leaving the bathroom without washing their hands?

That was rude and uncalled for.

That is an interesting perspective. Why is it rude? it a bad analogy?

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*bump*

Happy Monday!

Get your flu shots!

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*bump*

Happy Monday!

Get your flu shots!

Lol..Troublemaker.

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Lol..Troublemaker.

Not at all!

A PSA!

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Got mine a month ago.

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Got mine a month ago.

Just got mine. Missed the flu shot van at the school.

Does your community provide free flu shots at the schools and/or Town Hall?

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Got mine a month ago.

Got mine in September. You could say the military is kinda of "militant" about getting the flu vaccine...

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Just got mine. Missed the flu shot van at the school.

Does your community provide free flu shots at the schools and/or Town Hall?

I have NO idea. It's only been my community for a year, so I'm still learning about it. I'm leaning towards no, I don't think so, though. Folks in general in this town are different. Don't like to be told what to do by Big Brother, Big Pharma, or Big Soap.

Actually, many in my town could be poster children for this thread. Lots of conspiracy theorists.

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