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Hello. This is my rough draft for my problems and

solutions assignment, and I just wanted to take a moment

to talk about the anti vaccination movement.

And also it's negative impact on public health.

This is a problems and solutions assignment, so I will

be outlining what the issue is exactly how it could

be resolved.

I want to start by defining terms so that we

can understand the bigger picture of exactly what this movement

is and what it stands for.

The anti vaccination movement originally came from a man named

Andrew Wakefield, who is a scientist, or waas, a scientist

to published a paper in the Land Set, a UK

science journal known generally first, some fairly good stuff, and

his paper ultimately caused him to lose his medical license

because he had fabricated data and the data that was

there was derived from experiments performed on Children, and he

lacked any qualification as a pediatric surgeon, and the procedures

were performed without medical necessity.

So he lost his medical license and almost face jail

time for it.

Um, I understand it.

We sell in my opinion.

So with that out of the way, the founder of

this movement, the man who kicked it all off.

I think it's nice to explain exactly what it has

become today.

The anti vaccination movement today is an expansive cottage industry

of all kinds of practitioners of many, many different varieties

of pseudoscience and quackery.

This goes from everything toe, like everything from harmless faith,

harmless faith healing to the consumption of bleach to try

to cure diseases.

Um, and all of these people share the common thread

of offering their treatments as an alternative to those dangerous

vaccines released.

That's their pitch.

So with that explained, I think we can go into

exactly what vaccines are because if anybody doesn't know that,

it's kind of hard to understand this document.

So the vaccine is a type of immunization that is

used to vaccinate somebody against a disease, and the way

that it does this is that it is similar to

the disease that it wants to vaccinate.

Four. And this allows your immune cells your white blood

cells, to easily kill this inject injected virus, which is

usually dead or mostly dead or a more harmless straight.

And once your body has killed this virus, it now

knows what to look for when a new virus arrives.

It has the antibodies to immediately attack it.

So that is how the vaccine works.

Um, so let's explain exactly how they have worked as

faras effectiveness vaccines have been the single greatest achievement in

human history.

It is inarguable that our civilization and I don't mean

just the West, but all of the modern world would

have collapsed a very long time ago to disease and

pestilence if we didn't have vaccines, you can see the

very sharp drop off of many viruses to the vaccines

on this graph, and you can also see the viruses

that do not have vaccines if had no such drop

off. This more or less debunks the theory that anti

boxers like to push that the results that the lack

of diseases nowadays is the result of better sanitation alone.

We can see that that's just simply is not the

case. Identify, I think I think before we identify the

problem exactly.

I think it is important to make sense of the

big picture here.

This is my personal take on anti boxers.

I want to make it clear the anti vaxxers for

the most part, aside from the grifters, who maybe don't

believe anything they say and really pushed the agenda to

make money.

The majority of anti vaxxers air scared young mothers, people

with very little educational background in a large amount of

life, responsibility suddenly thrust upon them in the form of

a child.

And they're terrified, understandably so, and they want to protect

the family.

Unfortunately for them, they're stuck in an echo chamber where

all their fed is continuous fear about Big Pharma, about

the government, about whatever.

And they never get any riel information that might settle

these things and, as a result, there in a constant

state of fear and have a tendency to buy into

these things.

I want to make it clear that while many of

these people do not act with malice, what matters is

that the result of their actions is very damaging.

We don't define a problem by intent.

We define a problem by whether it is a problem,

and this is a problem.

What are the ways the anti vaccination movement affects public

health? The first main way is that herd immunity keep

safe. A large number of people who do not have

the ability to get a vaccine.

As I said, the vaccine contains, or at least for

the most part, most vaccines contain a dead or neutralized

version of the virus.

If a person is severely immuno compromised, i e.

They have cancer or they have immune suppression, disease, like,

say, aids, um, or any other thing that makes their

immune system dangerously underpowered.

This convene that they can't get a vaccine.

Their body can't even fight off the weakest immunization.

Um, it is simply not possible for them.

There are other people who are allergic or whatever.

The situation is thes.

People can't get the protection of a vaccine, and as

a result they rely on not being exposed to the

virus. And that is what herd immunity is.

When a large number of people in the society are

vaccinated or some other way immune to a virus, it

makes it so that, um, people who are not protected

do not get it because they're simply not exposed to

it. So without that, a large number of vulnerable people,

the elderly, whatever would die, and that is a very

serious concern, and we have seen that happen.

Any number of places number.

Another thing that is important to keep in mind is

that heard immunities threshold is somewhere around 85%.

If it drops below that, there starts to be very

serious issues like we've seen in American Samoa and places

in Brooklyn, In Orthodox communities in New York, they're events

very serious outbreaks of measles and other diseases that have

claimed a number of lives and also whooping cough, which

is very serious for infants and has also claimed a

number of lives.

And this has been the result of herd immunity breaking

down partly due to answer vaccination movement being concentrated in

those areas.

Another very key issue with the anti vaccination movement is

that it targets people who are vulnerable.

It praise upon them.

I talked earlier about these grifters who may or may

not actually believe in the anti back stuff, but that

doesn't really matter because they're out there, you know, targeting

trying to intentionally get their message out to people who

are in poor black communities such as the Nigerian community

and New York people who are religious communities like the

Orthodox Jewish community in New York, um, places like American

Samoa, P places where people may or may not have

the same amount of resource is available to them an

education available to them as other places.

And they target minority communities.

And they prey upon their fears of being discriminated against

and being targeted by some sort of government conspiracy or

something of the sort to sell them.

Narrative that the modern healthcare system is bad for them,

and what you really need is to do whatever are

pseudoscience practitioners say is good for you.

You know, just drink.

This bleach will be OK, I promise.

That's more or less.

The cell is everything else was dangerous and out to

get you, but we're not.

Which is pretty compelling for people of the community that

routinely gets discriminated against by the police, by businesses by

all the people around them.

This becomes a compelling narrative.

If you've experienced systemic discrimination, you might begin to think

that it is conspiracy like this is indeed possible in

the last way.

That anti vaccination movement is a problem is that it

destroys the public discourse, and I know that gets thrown

around a lot, but when you have a movement that

is so severely contradicted by evidence.

And people who even bring up counterpoints to it are

banned from their communities, are silenced, are sent away, Um,

where kids who go out and get vaccinated against the

parents wishes are punished by their parents, where there is

a culture of intolerance towards people who would even begin

to refute their ideas.

And this really hurts public discourse on on these issues.

It also hurts policy implementation, as we saw in California,

where there was a bill that would make it so

people who aren't vaccinated can't go to public schools and

in fact, Children at those public schools who are immune

compromised. And one of the senators that was trying to

pass that bill had period blood splashed all over him,

which was, frankly, the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.

And we're lucky that wasn't some sort of chemical substance

and an act of domestic terrorism because these people really

believed the world was out to get them.

I have no doubt that there are some dangerous anti

Baxter's out there, so on to the next part, proposing

solutions. What exactly can be done to encourage people to

get vaccines?

Um, what if anything, should social media, Social media's company

do to mitigate the spread of state dangerous pseudoscience on

the website.

So when it comes to legislative steps, people get really

uneasy because the idea that they would be foreign, simply

vaccinated is justifiably disturbing to people and not something I

support. Nobody on the pro vax side of things supports

forced vaccinations and forced vaccinations do not currently exist.

Nowhere in the US nowhere in Europe nowhere that I'm

aware of in the entire world has forced vaccinations.

This is something that the anti vax movement likes to

talk about very commonly, and I get the impression they

either don't know or don't care about this fact.

What instead we're advocating for or at least I am

advocating. For as somebody who is a fan of vaccines

is that people who are not vaccinated should not be

in public spaces with people who are immuno compromised and

people who would get sick from them.

It's a matter of practicality that people who are could

easily be carrying a virus are not around people who

cannot be protected against, said virus, and it is fairly

standard practice in America.

Although these laws have been loosened that people who choose

who make their voluntary choice, as is their freedom to

dio to not vaccinate have the consequence of not having

a free public education.

They are free to enroll in a private school.

They are free to go to private spaces.

But to go to a public park or to go

to a public school is not allowed when you could

easily be carrying a deadly virus that could kill somebody's

immune compromise kid, it is, unfortunately, a compromise, but it

does not contradict your freedom to choose.

You can choose.

But there are issues, you know.

I mean, it's not a free choice because, as with

many choices in life, there are consequences.

But you are allowed to choose.

Nobody's taking away your freedom to choose what, if anything,

should the should social media do to mitigate the spread

of these dangerous ideas and pseudoscience?

And then the answer to that is, in my opinion,

first of all, I want to highlight the fact my

opinion doesn't particularly matter.

Here. They own their websites taken Ban who I really

wanted band.

They could ban them for any reason or no reason

um, then being private property websites.

I mean, it doesn't particularly matter.

Facebook wants to ban somebody from their site.

Well, they could do that.

But in a more pragmatic level, I want to explain

what I personally things should get you bad.

The answer to that is not being doubtful on vaccines.

I think it is totally fine.

Even though the jury long since decided, you know, the

the consensus would be a better term is long since

been the vaccines are both safe and effective.

It is understandable and quite frankly good that people are

willing to analyze the reevaluate, whether they are in fact

still safe and effective or whether they were safe and

effective in the past.

These air completely normal things.

What isn't normal is for people to go out and

target young mothers and give them the advice you need

to not vaccinate your kid.

You know, telling them your kid will die if you

don't if you vaccinate them and that is like not

okay, that has a real tangible effect.

Nobody's worried about the spread of these ideas outside of

the fact that when they are directly told to people

saying, Hey, here upon July's.

Now don't vaccinate your kid or they'll die.

That's despicable, and it doesn't belong on a public website,

especially one that wants to maintain a good reputation.

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