Vaccine Skepticism

[Wales-Bales]

Vaccine skepticism among Americans is widespread, The POLITICO Poll found, indicating that one of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s animating priorities is gaining traction.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/14/poll-rfk-maha-vaccine-safety-americans-00869088

[ninian opinian]

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Vaccine skepticism among Americans is widespread, The POLITICO Poll found, indicating that one of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s animating priorities is gaining traction.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/14/poll-rfk-maha-vaccine-safety-americans-00869088

Thickos! When children start dying perhaps they’ll change their stupid minds.

[Wales-Bales]

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This is so true, and the Trump Russia Collusion hoax was a great example.

“We’re all kind of in the post-truth era, and it’s an epistemological crisis,” he said. “Everybody’s living in their own reality, and you interpret the facts in a way that reinforces your belief system.”

[Heathblue]

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Thickos! When children start dying perhaps theyÂ’ll change their stupid minds.

Children died during the limited vaccine trials, vax pushers never changed their minds and hid the trial data evidence.

[jon1959]

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Lazy I know, but my mate AI says (for the USA):


Rising Vaccine Skepticism & Declining Rates

Recent data indicates a significant shift in parental attitudes and behaviors:

National Skepticism: Parental skepticism toward vaccines rose from 22% to 27% by mid-2025, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) survey.

Declining Coverage: The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine coverage among U.S. kindergartners dropped from 95.2% in 2019 to 92.7% by 2024, falling below the 95% threshold required for herd immunity.

Declining Birth Doses: The share of newborns receiving the Hepatitis B vaccine within their first 24 hours fell from 83.5% to 73.2% between 2023 and 2025.

Exemptions: Non-medical school exemptions reached a historic high of 3.0% in the 2022–2023 school year.

Resurgence of Childhood Diseases

The erosion of herd immunity has led to dangerous outbreaks:

Measles: Once declared eliminated in 2000, measles cases in 2025 reached their highest level in 33 years. By July 2025, confirmed cases were nearly five times higher than the previous year.

Pockets of Susceptibility: Outbreaks are increasingly clustered in specific geographic areas where vaccine exemptions are most common, particularly among communities relying on social media for health advice.

Other Resurging Illnesses: Parental refusal has also been linked to increased incidence of pertussis (whooping cough), varicella (chickenpox), and invasive pneumococcal disease.

[Hilts]

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Anyone suprised there's a high percentage of anti vax loons in America🤣

[stevo]

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It’s called natural selection

[Dorcus]

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Anyone suprised there's a high percentage of anti vax loons in America🤣

Brilliant! It's like watching "Deliverance"

[ninian opinian]

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Children died during the limited vaccine trials, vax pushers never changed their minds and hid the trial data evidence.

FFS mun.

[JamesWales]

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A degree of scepticism is fine, it's when it crosses over into conspiracy that it's a problem.

There are two key legitimate reasons that explains some of it for me.

1 / much is rightly said about the rigorous testing undertaken for new drugs, that takes many years to bring them to market. Anyone who knows anyone with an incurable illness knows this. So it's understandable for people to question a drug that was released within a year or so.

2 / many people, including many on here spent a long time telling anyone who would listen (or had the misfortune of being within earshot) that the Johnson and Trump govt were fascists, extremists, child killers and the like. With that rhetoric normalised in some circles, don't be surprised when people don't trust governments.

I had my vaccines as early as possible btw. I acknowledged the risk but took it as I think lockdowns were more damaging than anything, and I think I was right on that. Vindication and vaccination!

[delmbox]

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Still a hell of a lot of traffic on the roads considering several billion people have died of the Covid shot mind, I was almost late for work yesterday

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Vaccination skepticism is widespread in the US.
The US elected twice Donald Trump as president.

I can't imagine that there is any connection between these two random subjects.

[the other bob wilson]

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Still a hell of a lot of traffic on the roads considering several billion people have died of the Covid shot mind, I was almost late for work yesterday

Yeah, I thought life was going to be a doddle after, as someone who had been given the Covid clot shot, I somehow made it through 2025.

Maybe one or two on here could let Baroness Hallett know where her report has gone wrong today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgrllgrk2x1t

[Dorcus]

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Vaccination skepticism is widespread in the US.
The US elected twice Donald Trump as president.

I can't imagine that there is any connection between these two random subjects.

I wonder what the correlation quota is between Vaccine Sceptics and Flat Earthers in the USA?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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I wonder what the correlation quota is between Vaccine Sceptics and Flat Earthers in the USA?

Vaccine sceptics should be proportionately be in the ascendancy now that the rest of us are dying from the clot-shots.
Some of us are so affected that we didn't even realise that the magnetic poles had swapped places.