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Anti Vaxxers

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It looks like this covid 19 pandemlc has allowed the American anti vax campaigners to get a foothold in the UK. Twitter and Facebook is awash with it. A recent report shows that 51% of anti vax information on Facebook comes from just two sources.

They've also found that a lot of the anti lockdown and anti vax campaigns come from the same company behind the Leave campaign.

Social media is getting to be quite dangerous.
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I don't think that social media is more or less dangerous than any other media , people's inability to think and willingness to be led is another matter entirely .
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It's the speed at which the information travels and the numbers it reaches. People used to stick to the same news channels and newspapers.
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I was also reading how the figures for people thinking the Govt is doing a good job are being skewed by social media posts from similar sources and thus others feel they are doing an OK job because social media makes them think that way.
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duke63 wrote:I was also reading how the figures for people thinking the Govt is doing a good job are being skewed by social media posts from similar sources and thus others feel they are doing an OK job because social media makes them think that way.
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My brother has gone full anti vax. He's not going to let his kids have any more jabs.
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Kwacky wrote:It's the speed at which the information travels and the numbers it reaches. People used to stick to the same news channels and newspapers.
It's also the ease in which you can place targeted adverts that look professional and convincing. If people see the same thing enough times they start to believe it.

I was looking at a Facebook thread the other day where the same person kept throwing the same website at people who contradicted her. She just said look it's a professional website written by professionals, it has to be right.

The DNS entry for the site had all personal data withheld and even the HTTPS certificate was anonymous from lets encrypt.

There's too many "experts", Karen's, out plain malicious twats that can do this.

At least a paper has some kind of editing control.

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I think that the arguments against vaccinations are far outweighed by the benefits of just having them done. There's always going to be some fringe element against about just about anything. They'd complain if they were hung with a new rope. Fcuk 'em, frickin' hippies.
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Anti Vaxxers are some of my favourite people to dislike.

I’ve have been told personally by so called informed people that I had considered friends that I caused my sons Autism by getting him vaccinated.

Like D41 said (jeez I’m agreeing with him again (lol) ) it’s a risk assessment, and the positives out weigh the negatives. Even if vaccinations had caused Byrons autism (which I don’t believe in any way at all) I’d rather still have my son than him dead from some bloody disease.
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I have been recently watching Jeff Holiday he gets into the anti vaxxer movement and rips it apart ,he’s worth watching.
I feel for anybody with kids who have special needs having uneducated idiots with false doctorates ramming crap down their throats
I won’t be having a Covid vaccine but have my own reasons for that
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