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RFK Jr. and The Rise of the Anti-Vaxx Movement

Maintenance Phase

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The History of Polio

As more vaccines develop, a cycle emerges where there's compulsory vaccination. The disease disappears and then after it disappears for a while people kind of forget how bad it was Then you get the rise of these anti-vax orgs if like it's about my rights blah blah blah vaccination rates fall And then an outbreak happens. It's like oh fuck we have smallpox again. This is the cycle that we're in now Like just to spoil the ending like this is what we're saying now with measles. So this cycle continues until the emergence of polio In the early 1900s polio is a poop spreading diseases one of the poop diseases. You keep picking topics.

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