Robin Marwick: OK, this is bad angusreid.org/canada-vacci...

OK, this is bad angusreid.org/canada-vacci...

Hmm, wonder if ChatGPT will make this better or worse

Does ChatGPT make anything better?

No! Just wondering about the mix of vaccine views in the training set 😬

I don't know, what would a hallucinating algorithm that's designed to tell people what they expect to hear and ape authoritativeness do for this situation

More data for context. 🧵 Ontario and NB have mandatory childhood vaccination and relatively high support. Quebec and Alberta have more opposition to mandatory childhood vaccines.

BUT most Canadians still think it’s irresponsible to oppose childhood vaccination.

Canadian men are more likely to be vaccine skeptics/antivax than women, and vaccine support is generally much higher in older people, who have Seen Shit. Ugh our modern politics are garbage.

Surprising no-one, the CPC is hot garbage on this issue.

Same shit slightly different question (is the antivax movement going to cause harm?)

There’s a bunch of questions about vaccine science and safety that are just too depressing to summarize here.

You go New Brunswick

Honestly feeling surprisingly good about Ontario today

NB seems like one of the most Normal places on earth. People just existing and being ok

Quebec surprises me. Alberta doesn't.

Seeing a lot of responses to this that are blaming parents and calling them stupid but please don’t forget to blame the lying grifters (celebrities, politicians) who spread vaccine misinformation for fun and profit.

If you make medicine into a for-profit enterprise than you get The Customer is Aways Right. Don't blame ppl for following through on their training.

Yep. Rather than people viewing medicine as something society as a whole produced, they view it as another product that could be a potential scam.

And also, since medicine is for-profit and both deeply racist and deeply misogynist, everyone has memories of themselves or a friend having been screwed over very badly.

(Muting this thread so I can get some work done! Please don’t start any fights in the replies. Constructive solutions welcome. Be good to each other.)

One of the few times I'm in favor of not giving people a choice. Want to be in our community? You have to help protect the community: get vaccinated!

yeah, science had a good run but let’s go “lord of the flies” and reject logic and reason over who shouts louder longer.

*limply waves tiny Canadian flag*

*looks forlornly from just over the border*

that 17% should be prohibited from enrolling their kids in school

Will that bother the folks who want to homeschool for religious reasons? Asking as an American who sees homeschooling and charter schools and private religious education dismantling public schools all over the place here. This might be part of a larger PURPOSE of antivaxx media. Aka, feature not bug

homeschooling should also be illegal unless the parent is a certified teacher and can meet academic benchmarks on a yearly basis.

Um... Not disagreeing. Just like, I live in Missouri and they are moving away from requiring ANYTHING from homeschooled kids. Evidence of anything. Anything. Not just the teachers (aka parents). But the kids, too. I would settle for stop bleeding public schools dry. Please and thank you?

This is a bill being pushed here that literally exempts homeschoolers from being investigated for educational neglect... So. That's fun. missouriindependent.com/2023/12/26/m...

Bill would open Missouri public school sports to homeschool students • Missouri Independentmissouriindependent.com A prefiled bill seeks to allow Missouri homeschool students access to public school sports while repealing oversight of home education.

Fabulous 😖

Missouri is....not a great state. It's a safely red state, with all the insanity that brings along with it.

In several provinces, they are. My SIL chose not to vaccinate her son over that stupid autism scare years ago. Guess what? He had to get vaccinated to attend school anyway. And, ironically, he was diagnosed with autism anyway. (Vaccines DO NOT cause autism!!!)

They would love that, though???

I never thought I'd see society move backward, but here we are.

Natural Selection at work.

With do diligence by our federal authorities do not hesitate to get your children vaccinate. I was one of the test kids in the 50's for the polio vaccine. Life has a risk factor. You should know that by the time you are an adult with kids.

The Kids are all right in the target zone for previously vanquished lethal diseases

This is why measles have made a comeback after 60 years of vaccines WORKING! After 100+ years of medical RESEARCH! Losing trust in science is how people cull themselves. No mistrust for 2000 Billionaires rigging the economy to take over the world. No mistrusting Corporate greed to govern the world.

Idiots and bad information are a recipe for disaster

Thank you Trump and whatshername *grr*

Wow, fascism is taking western people and turning them all into idiotic luddites that'll be the death of all of us, what else is new?

Sigh

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Average global atmospheric CO2 level, 2019: 411.66ppm Average global atmospheric CO2 level, 2024: 423.3ppm The higher the CO2 goes, the dumber we all get.

Fools taking stuff for granted. The pendulum will swing back again after millions die or become disabled. But it's definitely worrying how easily people can be fooled into irrational self-destructive actions. Does imply that some kind of war is coming.

Propaganda at work.

People are lot happier to wear their stupidity out in public these days. Before covid they kept their dumb thoughts to themselves.

And most of this behavior is *solely* due to the Republican Party’s decision to use the pandemic as a wedge issue

17% preferred poxxy kids suffering consequences

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