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[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

YEA!

U-S-A! U-S-A!

'MURICA

Please send help

[–] tatann@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Help ? You mean prayers ?

[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

"preventable disease" and "Americans" are very broad terms

[–] BJ_and_the_bear@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We're concerned, we just can't afford health care

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So why do Republicans like Jesse Watters say things like, "I'm offended that Canada wouldn't want to be a part of america."

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every cult has as one of its core tenets that only evil, terrible people wouldn't want to be part of it.

The U.S. is currently being run by a cult.

Not everyone in the U.S. is part of that cult. But a damned lot of the population of the U.S. is.

Source: Am american.

[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I hate that you’re right.

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 20 points 1 day ago

Not just americans. this started in the uk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably the same reason Europeans drink and smoke too tbh

The risk seems worth it. Either because the see it as lower than it is or that the loss of life less valuable than others see it.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Except the benefits of rejecting vaccines and modern medicine are 🤷.

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[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] coolkicks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

We also have a chronic disposition toward optimism. You know “the American dream” and all that.

So a disease with a 10% mortality rate has a 90% survival rate. And 90% is bigger than 50%, so when you factor in chronic optimism it’s basically a 100% survival rate in our brains.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because, in spite (or perhaps because of) the 'rough individualist' propaganda, most Americans have a strong sense of powerlessness and that all they can do is keep their head down and hope for the best. It veers into some really absurdist fatalism at times.

t. leftist American from a conservative area who still keeps tabs on family

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

who still keeps tabs on family

Oof.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Luckily, the family member I'm closest to, my mother, is religiously fundamentalist and nationalist in a way that vaccinated her against MAGA, bizarrely. So talking to her is like having a 10+ year window into the past.

But yeah, for the rest, oof.

[–] psyspoop@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I think many of us don't realize that there's a better option. As in, this is just the way it is. Many who do learn there are alternatives then fall to propaganda about how the alternatives are worse or communist, etc.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Because we are so far removed from poor conditions that some of us don't even think they exist. And since they've never seen it, misinformation can just slide right in.

[–] rhinoceros@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

we have a domestic cult that doesn't listen to anything outside of the cult. for the people not in the cult, most are not against medicine and other modern things. some of us are actual scientists and feel like we just live here.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

People only care about narratives, and a side effect of having a scientific/naturalistic worldview is that things like disease become narratively inert.

People used to care a lot more about diseases when they could be given narrative causes like witchcraft or demons.

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