• UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    76
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    10 days ago

    In 1955… Most people personally knew someone aflicted with polio. They knew how bad it was

    • SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      45
      ·
      10 days ago

      In Appalachia, it was unlikely to not know someone on a vent or dead from Covid, yet…

      • hperrin@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        35
        ·
        10 days ago

        Fox News tells you not to believe your eyes, and conservatives trust Fox News more than their own eyes.

      • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        10 days ago

        I knew three people who died from COVID and another after they recovered from COVID, unfortunately unless it’s their direct family they would just assume ‘theyre just making it all out to be covid’

        I assume most people would blame social media for this, but here’s my c/unpopularopinions take, it’s inevitable with a profit oriented news platform, where they try to scaremonger in both ‘we are all going to die’ and ‘government is putting chips in our bloodstream’ directions

        In other nations, unless a blunder by government policy, they werent as affected by the anti vaccine shenanigans, even though they were as affected by social media and such

        • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          9 days ago

          Dude my grandmother died of Covid in August pf 2020, and yet my father and his sister who is a nurse and gave her the dease arge to this day weather covid is bullshit or not. AT HER funeral they argued about mask mandates. Maga brains will watch millions die from covid, and polio and still call it fake news.

        • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          9 days ago

          And then there’s my ex who after COVID took nearly 9 months (!) to get normal use of their lung again. Fuck people who go all “COVID is bullshit”.

      • john89@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        9 days ago

        Trust me. I’ve been along live enough to recognize that if people don’t want to believe something, then they won’t.