• Traister101@lemmy.today
    2·
    7 months ago

    Thanks for well contributing to Lemmy but you sure are quite the annoying character. Now don’t go and abuse your newfound abilities and remove the blocking feature <3

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
    1·
    7 months ago

    Congrats Dull. As someone that’s been reading contributions from your first pull request, I can say it’s well deserved.

          • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
            01·
            7 months ago

            Look at some of their other comments. They’ll fit right in with the other lemmy devs

              • dullbananas (Joseph Silva)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
                01·
                7 months ago

                I want a strongly pro-vaccine culture, but whether or not to have vaccines mandated by the government is a tough dilemma for me.

                I expect America’s overall health to improve and catch up with the rest of the world under RFK Jr. because of his support for vaccine/drug testing that’s free from corporate capture and his ambition to mitigate chronic disease.

                I can respond to your point about conspiracy theories if you’re more specific.

                • Hello_there@fedia.io
                  1·
                  7 months ago

                  If all of your supporters think vaccines cause diseases, if you’re elected you’re going to need to satisfy them by acting on those beliefs.

                  I think, in the abstract, you’re right - having any sort of health procedure mandated by the govt is extremely problematic. However hugely communicable diseases are a big caveat to that principle, and we have been doing something about that for a long long time.

                  Typhoid Mary was forcibly detained because, over and over again, she kept spreading the disease. Several different times, bird flu was halted before it could get too widespread because of govt mandated culls. Smallpox was completely eradicated because of vaccine efforts.

                  Imagine if in any of those cases people said ‘freedom’ was primary and prevented coercion for vaccines. The death and injury toll would be much higher by today, including those of the young and the immunocompromised.