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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced (feddit.org)

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source: https://x.com/rcbregman/status/1868015427332255863

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

I agree. And I think that non-vacuum isn't that our health system is whack, but that we just went through a traumatizing time as a society that left people very fearful and looking for answers. It's a convenient and easy one that the conmen are more than happy to advantage of for their personal gain.

I guess I see our positions as very different. . .you attribute it to people trying to avoid our healthcare system, I see it as people just looking for something to blame for how crappy shit was during the pandemic; our healthcare system has been shit for a long time, but the rise to prominence of this anti-vaccine movement happened during the pandemic. I don't think the timing is coincidental.

But I appreciate the cordial response.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

As someone inside the healthcare system, I can confidently state that COVID simply brought out a lot of festering problems that already existed. The pandemic didn’t create those problems, it revealed them.

The one “but” here is that COVID did help speed up the timeline on doctor/nurse/caregiver burnout as well and create a bottleneck in getting care due to sheer numbers which is still happening right now. How long are you waiting for your next PCP appointment, or to get established with one? (One example).

And as another “but”. What I just said above was already the trajectory of the system. We simply had a little healthcare “inflation” that sped all of that up.