If you could be exposed to the vaccine second-hand it wouldn’t be such a big deal if you didn’t get the shot (it would just take longer). But that isn’t how it works.
The world must seem like a scarier place for someone this stupid. Can’t understand primary or secondary research sources, everything looks like claims because of a lack of understanding of evidence, never learned how to critically evaluate conclusions from observations, etc.
This strikes me as a way desperate people who have little to offer a relationship are trying to make themselves seem more desirable.
“Sure, I don’t take care of myself and I’m no fun to be around and I haven’t had a job since 1997, but those other people have secret contagious vaccine secretions. Do you really want to risk that?”
Someone should remind this jackass that fleshlights and dildos don’t secrete anything, and (hopefully) have never been used by anyone else. Just throwing it out there!
Which my universal health care won’t pay for until I’m 60 for no discernable reason because under 60 people get shingles. I’ve had chicken pox as a child and I fear shingles.
Problem is people are stupid, lazy, and/or corrupt in all fields, including the medical field. It’s a big part of the reason why anti-vax and anti-science movements exist: partially from that retracted study that initially claimed autism was caused by vaccines, partially from cases where the “expert” is following some obviously flawed dogma (like “people that young don’t get shingles”), partially from corrupt studies being exposed later on as fraudulent, like the tobacco industry “studies” that claimed smoking wasn’t dangerous.
The part that sucks is that I don’t believe there’s a good solution to this because that set of flaws can hit either side of any argument.
I also believe that it’s related to our ability to progress itself: humanity kinda brute forces beliefs and it sometimes works out for the better, when people like Galileo, da Vinci, Newton, or Einstein think everyone else is missing something or flat out wrong about some stuff and revolutionize our understanding of physics or what’s possible with machines. Sometimes it works out for the worse, like the anti-vax movement, flat earth, anti-Semitism, or believing that opposing oppression and genocide is anti-Semitism.
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