sexy_peach@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 hours agoHow Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announcedfeddit.orgimagemessage-square183fedilinkarrow-up11.22Karrow-down19file-text
arrow-up11.22Karrow-down1imageHow Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announcedfeddit.orgsexy_peach@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 hours agomessage-square183fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarethemurphy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59arrow-down10·edit-217 hours agoPolio can’t be compared to COVID when you talk about vaccines. COVID mutates like the flu, meaning a vaccine was never meant to eradicate it. It simply can’t. COVID vaccines still help to prevent severe illness, but it was never a permanent cure. People were morons, but even if we all did what we were told to do, COVID would still exist.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 hours agoTo be fair, there was a chance. If 8 billion humans observed quarantine properly and vaccinated we would destroy all forms of influenza.
minus-squareblazeknave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoDidn’t we do that? Now my kid is bringing home a different strain every other day
minus-squarethemurphy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours agoIn theory yes, but it’s just not realistic for the whole world. In the western world, yes, we can isolate us if we want. It’s just not that easy everywhere.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoI said a chance. Not that it was a big one.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down8·17 hours agoMy favorite thing about social media is people who argue for no good reason other than to entertain themselves.
minus-squareThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-214 hours agoYou going too deep with it.
Polio can’t be compared to COVID when you talk about vaccines.
COVID mutates like the flu, meaning a vaccine was never meant to eradicate it. It simply can’t.
COVID vaccines still help to prevent severe illness, but it was never a permanent cure.
People were morons, but even if we all did what we were told to do, COVID would still exist.
To be fair, there was a chance. If 8 billion humans observed quarantine properly and vaccinated we would destroy all forms of influenza.
Didn’t we do that? Now my kid is bringing home a different strain every other day
In theory yes, but it’s just not realistic for the whole world. In the western world, yes, we can isolate us if we want. It’s just not that easy everywhere.
I said a chance. Not that it was a big one.
My favorite thing about social media is people who argue for no good reason other than to entertain themselves.
No I don’t.
/s
You going too deep with it.