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POV: Health Misinformation Is Rampant on Social Media::Monica Wang argues that health misinformation on social media is fueling the global anti-vaccination campaign and offers suggestions for how to combat it.

  • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    You know who is worth saving? People who are unable to get vaccinated. They are extremely vulnerable to things like mumps, measles, and rubella, for instance because many of them are immunocompromised.

    • Tristaniopsis@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Yes that fine. I’m not talking about the immunocompromised, and it’s pretty clear that I’m not.

      It’s the conspiracy-eating idiots that my broad brush is painting.

      • Jojo@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        The trouble is that those same conspiracy eaters aren’t the only ones at risk from the conspiracy. Immunocompromised people are out at risk when the percentage of people going unvaccinated increases. They are worth saving, and the mechanism of saving them is saving the conspiracy eaters.