▲ 116 ▼ ‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments Online anti-vaxxers, conflating Covid and MMR theories, are convincing parents against immunising their children
[–] 2scoops@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (4 children) As Ron White says, “you can’t fix stupid”. Seems to be an epidemic of it out there. If only there were a shot you could take… permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social [S] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I think the Ron White comment is pretty stupid, which leaves us with a nice paradox. You might not be able to fix people who are willfully stupid. You can certainly try to prevent people from being sucked into the whirlpool of misinformation permalink fedilink source parent [–] Throwdownyourgrandma@feddit.nl 6 points 2 years ago Then they would not take it! permalink fedilink source parent [–] WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* The sad thing is Ron White fans think he's talking about people who take vaccines. It wouldn't surprise me if he was anti vaccine. permalink fedilink source parent [–] qooqie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago In this case you can only hope stupid is a self correcting course permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social [S] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I think the Ron White comment is pretty stupid, which leaves us with a nice paradox. You might not be able to fix people who are willfully stupid. You can certainly try to prevent people from being sucked into the whirlpool of misinformation permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Throwdownyourgrandma@feddit.nl 6 points 2 years ago Then they would not take it! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* The sad thing is Ron White fans think he's talking about people who take vaccines. It wouldn't surprise me if he was anti vaccine. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago In this case you can only hope stupid is a self correcting course permalink fedilink source parent