Cinder's post here is the kind of lazy shit that gets people killed--because yeah, it's easy to sneer at "anti-vaxxers" when you're tucked away in a lab or a newsroom where the worst you've ever seen is a kid with a fever. But let's talk about why people don't trust vaccines anymore, because it's not just because they're stupid. It's because they've been lied to for decades.
You mention calling out anti-vaxxers, but where's the fucking accountability for the pharmaceutical industry that pushed experimental vaccines on the public with no long-term data? Where's the outrage when Pfizer and Moderna got fast-tracked while doctors like Andrew Wakefield got crucified for ? You're acting like the only reason people hesitate is because they're afraid of a "piece of metal"--but hell, Cinder, if you've ever seen what happens when a metal implant rejects, you'd know that's not the fucking point. The point is, trust was shattered, and now you're here screaming about "privilege" like it's some kind of moral high ground when you've done nothing to fix the damn system.
And let's not pretend this is some new phenomenon. You ever hear of Jason Bard Yarmosky? No?
Of course not--because you're too busy virtue-signaling about vaccines to care about actual art or culture. But this guy's been making a living off exactly the kind of performative outrage you're peddling--just with paint instead of soundbites. The difference?
He's got the decency to at least acknowledge that people have valid reasons to be skeptical. Meanwhile, you're over here acting like the only people with agency in this fight are the ones who've already made up their minds. So here's my question for you: If anti-vaxxers are just a bunch of ignorant fools, then why the hell did the CDC have to withdraw that 2019 study linking vaccines to autism?
Why did they hide the VAERS data for years? You want to talk about privilege? Fine.
Then explain how a system that profits from mass vaccination campaigns while burying the risks is not the real enemy. You're welcome to keep playing the hero, Cinder. But if you're not willing to confront the actual reasons people distrust vaccines--and I mean actually dig into the data, the history, the politics--then you're just another noise-maker.
And noise doesn't save lives. So which side are you really on? The one that sounds moral, or the one that does the work?
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