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Please send help
Help ? You mean prayers ?
Because, quite frankly, Americans are idiots. They would rather scarf down misinformation given by their news anchors than open a book and/or think for themselves.
Amen. A country of trash.
How Not To Die in only 17 minutes
How Not To Die from Heart Disease, the leading killer of Americans
The leading causes of death of Americans are all preventable, and none of them are viral infections. (Though COVID might have moved the numbers somewhat.)
5th stage of grief… Acceptance.
We know we’re fucked and the government believes it’s role is to wield power, not help people.
If you’re referring to the gains in the anti vax movment
It’s the same reason why a large portion of Americans are anti environment.
It got politicized and instead of using critical thinking one side wants to win and thinks the other is lying to them about everything
Asking Americans why they are like they are is just going to result in a bunch of denial, obfuscation, rationalization, and misdirected aggression.
This is what kills Americans the most: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-causes-of-death/ And almost all of them are preventable.
I’m concerned but I don’t know what I can do about that other than make sure my whole family is vaccinated.
That’s all you can do, really. Should give you a bit of satisfaction, too, knowing you did something incredibly simple that could prevent a ton of hardship.
This will make you see red. My nephew cannot get vaccinated for legitimate health reasons. His parents were always pro-vax until it came time for the Covid vaccine. Then they became all “mRNA is a new technology, we don’t have enough research.” We basically stopped talking to them after my husband yelled at his brother (nephew’s dad) that he is risking killing his own son if he gets Covid. So fucking stupid. Yes, they are conservative although they claim not to support Trump.
50 years of cuts to the education system and the demonization of the Liberal Arts (history, sociology, etc…)
A country that would rather keep a football program than an arts program is always going to suffer.
Our educations system has been in decline for the last 20 years. Instead foreign money has combine with private interests to blast us with complete made up bullshit propaganda 24/7. Almost all of our major news sources are now owned or operated by MAGA donors, who care more about money than public well being. Basically, half this country is now too stupid to determine if the information they’re viewing is corporate propaganda, or foreign government propaganda. Both are exploitative, and both want Americans sick because it’s profitable to them. So despite having a president that publicly threw out our pandemic response killing more Americans than in all the wars we’ve ever faught in combined - 4 years later we reelected him. That’s how bad the propaganda is here. Combined with poor education, we can no longer agree on how basic cause and effect works.
TL:DR - We’re now too stupid and hopped up on propaganda to understand how preventing diseases works.
If you think there are no anti-vaxxers in your country, you’ve got another thing coming.
Many of the anti-vax groups at the center of outbreaks are members of religious minorities. Menanites, Amish, and Hasidic Jews. The reason it’s become more of a problem is that some upper middle class families have joined in and created more unvaccinated pockets in communities in the last decade.
For decades the conservative movement in the US has fostered a distrust in government and it has permeated just about everything.
Edit: I would also like to point out that these communities exist in the US because their ancestors likely fled religious oppression in YOUR country. Assuming you live anywhere in Europe there’s a high chance that is true.
You can’t be concerned about things you don’t know…
Most of us are concerned.
The minority are concerned because the US government has done unethical and malicious medical stuff to minorities, which makes some level of hesitancy for those groups understandable. Not the cod oil instead of vaccines bullshit white middle class and up promote, that is pure snake oil propaganda.
Intentionally infecting black airmen with syphillus and giving them placibos instead of treatments so they could track long term effects.
As an example.
They weren’t intentionally infected, they were just deliberately not given the cure. It doesn’t make a difference at the end of the day, but it is important to distinguish because that is probably part of how those involved in the study justified their actions.
E.g.,
“I didn’t give them the disease, so I’m not responsible for what happens to them”
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We’re concerned, we just can’t afford health care
So why do Republicans like Jesse Watters say things like, “I’m offended that Canada wouldn’t want to be a part of america.”
Every cult has as one of its core tenets that only evil, terrible people wouldn’t want to be part of it.
The U.S. is currently being run by a cult.
Not everyone in the U.S. is part of that cult. But a damned lot of the population of the U.S. is.
Source: Am american.
Because they’re not used to people saying no to them.
Because we are so far removed from poor conditions that some of us don’t even think they exist. And since they’ve never seen it, misinformation can just slide right in.
