The Rise of the Anti-Vaxx Movement

. .you only need to look at the ratings graph to see the affect on the average score.

This is a rational and scientific presentation of the (scientifically proven, peer-reviewed) facts behind vaccination. The science behind vaccines is solid and only getting better (we were able to use RNA tech for C-19 to produce the vaccine faster and get it into testing faster).

There is still no cure for viruses - nothing has changed there - our scientific knowledge is not that good yet. The vaccine doesn't stop you getting infected - it just progresses your body's immune system straight to "producing and deploying effective anti-bodies" stage of it's fight against the virus . .skipping all the ID'ing and experimenting stages to develop effective anti-bodies in the first place (we're all innate scientists on the inside), and thus reducing the time the virus has to do damage to the cells in our body. Less symptomatic damage to you, less viral load to spread to others - that's it, end of story.

It's a doc, what can I say. My main reason for commenting is I know the qanon anti-vax antimask folks are going to come out of the woodwork slamming the doc. Dunno why really beyond they can't seem to make it through life without trying to prove the majority of the planet is plotting to subjugate them in some manner. Regardless of their bs, they had to be vaccinated to attend school and a cloth mask is a better option than an oxygen mask and a casket. Prove we don't have somewhere close to 800k dead and maybe I'll listen. Dummasses.

Don't take it too seriously, people, but in this particular context it should actually be "Thinning of The Heard by Means of Willful Ignorance: The Essence of The Darwin Award In Process". And by right so.

...and have for a couple hundred years.

We've had public restrictions due to disease for thousands of years (quarantine for instance) and vaccinations in the US since 1800 when Benjamin Waterhouse brought them here, and from 1802 - 1810 vaccinations were endorsed by US officials (including scientists and president Jefferson), made compulsory, and federal agencies were set up to study and administer them. And that was just the beginning of this life and health saving humane and socially responsible enterprise.

Billions of lives have been saved by vaccination; in fact, many of us alive today wouldn't be if not for vaccinations saving our ancestors from early deaths in childhood: millions of children died in the US and other industrialized countries each year (with much lower populations btw) before widespread vaccinations started and steadily advanced in the 1800s and 1900s.

This documentary shows how the intellectual and moral poverty of the socially irresponsible anti-vaccination movement threatens to return our public health to the dire days before vaccinations when child (and adult) early death were commonplace (a family with 3 children could expect at least 1 child to die from now preventable disease; many adults died in their 30's - 50's from disease).

What is especially infuriating is that it need not be this way: because of human ingenuity and fearless, painstaking, concerted inquiry for centuries (often fighting against religious authorities that condemned such inquiry, with real threats of financial ruin, banishment, imprisonment and even death for such "heresy"), we have largely conquered the scourges of the past in affluent nations (look to the less affluent to see how wretched our pre-vaccination past was) to ensure human well-being is more widespread than at any other time in our species' history. The know-nothing pseudo-scientific anti-vaccination movement threatens all this reality based hard work and progress, all this freedom from pain, suffering and death. And of all the tragedies in the world, nothing is more regrettable, and just outright evil, than wholly preventable pain, suffering and death due to human ignorance, irrationality, immaturity, and unjustified arrogance.

Science is real, truth matters, reality is real (that's a tautology), freedom/bodily autonomy does not extend to allow individuals to infect others with deadly or crippling communicable diseases (the freedom from suffering and death, and the right to health and life, vastly outweighs the non-freedom and non-right to carry deadly or crippling communicable disease, full stop) and anyone who tells you otherwise has a malicious and personally beneficial political/financial agenda to advance.

Anyone that has done their own research into the subject matter will see right through the heavy handed convoluted propaganda. Wishing everyone who sees this 'film' had the time to do their own independent investigation instead of taking the information presented here as a earnest attempt at balanced reporting.

"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" - Paula Cole.