We’re actively disinformed. That’s why. It’s really that simple.
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.
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.”
I think a lot of Americans have the option that these contagious diseases aren’t really dangerous anymore and that THEY won’t be affected by any fallout. THEY will be able to survive it so THEY don’t care.
In reality, lots of people live in small communities and even though they might go on the internet, they don’t go very deep. So unless it’s in their face, they don’t know much about it. And “my gran pappy had the mumps and he was fine!” mentality.
Just for the record I hate they gran pappy and he was not fine, the syphilis addled fuck.
i hear ya. it’s a major fucking bummer knowing that most of the people around me a fucking stupid
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.
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.
I think many of us don’t realize that there’s a better option. As in, this is just the way it is. Many who do learn there are alternatives then fall to propaganda about how the alternatives are worse or communist, etc.
We also have a chronic disposition toward optimism. You know “the American dream” and all that.
So a disease with a 10% mortality rate has a 90% survival rate. And 90% is bigger than 50%, so when you factor in chronic optimism it’s basically a 100% survival rate in our brains.
What is there to live for? Collective pain and misery. Be a mensch and let go.
