@sexy_peach@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-27 months agoHow Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announcedfeddit.orgimagemessage-square211fedilinkarrow-up11.48Karrow-down114
arrow-up11.46Karrow-down1imageHow Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announcedfeddit.org@sexy_peach@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-27 months agomessage-square211fedilink
minus-square@themurphy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish53•edit-27 months 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-squareFlashMobOfOnelinkfedilinkEnglish23•7 months agoMy favorite thing about social media is people who argue for no good reason other than to entertain themselves.
minus-square@Maggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish9•7 months agoTo be fair, there was a chance. If 8 billion humans observed quarantine properly and vaccinated we would destroy all forms of influenza.
minus-square@blazeknave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoDidn’t we do that? Now my kid is bringing home a different strain every other day
minus-square@themurphy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months 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-square@Maggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoI said a chance. Not that it was a big one.
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.
My favorite thing about social media is people who argue for no good reason other than to entertain themselves.
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.