It's so fucking weird that like 60 years ago scientists were able to make a vaccine for measles, say "it'll stop measles from killing you," and then distribute it so widely that we killed off measles.

And now articles are all "do vaccines stop infections?"

"CDC: vaccines prevent spread of disease"

People 60 years ago had no clue what science was outside godzilla movies and they were like "damn, nice, sounds good, inject that shit in my veins."

Now it's an uphill effort to get people to understand that vaccines exist and aren't some deep government conspiracy.

Even people whose parents *weren't* experimented on by recently declassified actual government conspiracies

Decades of ruthlessly destroying the education system *and* hiring literal goddamn nazi war criminals (and Unit 731 war criminals) to conduct horrific medical experiments, has completely eroded public health knowledge and trust

Now you gotta teach people that vaccines exist, explain why reducing the spread of a disease is a good thing, explain that vaccines reduce the spread of disease, etc.

*taps the prophecy sign once again*

Turns out spending generations brutally slashing education infrastructure while doing actual literal nazi war crimes on POC domestically and abroad, also destroys the ability of people to know that diseases are bad.

"Diseases are bad. Reducing their spread is good."

And *that's* the 101. The thing that has to be explained, at length. Not specific details about specific vaccines, etc.

How the hell do you expect to not die in agony if half your population has to be taught that diseases are bad, and the other half has to be reassured you're not continuing a goddamn mengele experiment on them

Whereas 60 years ago it wasn't necessary to explain that measles is in general not good. And there were 60 fewer years of horrifically unethical medical experiments eroding trust in public health measures

America, slashing education while injecting syphilis into orphans: fuck yeah! Yes!

America, realizing its citizens either literally cannot reason about public health, or deeply distrust it for good reasons: oh no