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by scrollaway 1740 days ago
> In five years when there are no long-term side-effects the antivaxxers will die down again.

You seem very certain. I'm not convinced. Some of them are simply making things up. I had one of my coaches try to show me a video of a guy sticking spoons to his body trying to tell me it was the vaccine making him magnetic.

How do you reconcile "hey, once we can show that long term side effects are non-existent" with "because there aren't enough side effects right now, they're just inventing completely crazy nonsense that defies all logic"?

The person in question isn't even a fringe conspiracy theorist, she just browsed Facebook a little too much, this is just mainstream stuff...

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Most anti-vaxxers are not that crazy though. Most will be convinced by a few years of nothing bad happening. It's an easy mistake to make to focus on the most extreme people when they just aren't representative.