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U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
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Americans, how come you've allowed your country to get so stupid?
40 something here - what if I told you it was always this stupid but shame kept it under lock and key?
Gen X here - regarding vaccines, I think the anti-vaccine thing was always there, but on the fringes. I think that in particular has progressively gotten stupider and more common as older generations have died off.
The younger generations have not seen the outcomes of many diseases....it was probably already headed for Peak Stupidity until the young and naive and generally clueless (despite the tech being there, most humans seem to refuse to employ the time-binding thing when it comes to knowledge and wisdom, and that's even with a functioning public schooling system. The conservatives have been trying to destroy any semblance of such for decades) experienced those diseases for themselves or for their children or grandchildren.
And then Covid happened. And then whole new levels of idiocy were reached. And now donvict's second term + RFK jr is out to kill even more Americans.