▪️This meme presents a cartoonish version of the history of child mortality, as you can see from the attached chart. Child mortality rates plummeted most sharply in the 1800s and early 1900s, it wasn’t as if the 1950s was the starting point of the phenomenon.
▪️Vaccines were a component of lowering child mortality, but a fairly minor one. It was industrialization and the resulting dramatic increase in wealth that turned the world from a place where ~1/2 of children didn’t reach adulthood into one where child mortality is extremely rare.
▪️Most of the decrease comes from advancements like abundant and reliable food supplies, sewers, clean drinking water, central heating, cheap clothing, understanding germs and bacteria, antibiotics and access to hospitals.
▪️Pretending vaccines were singularly responsible for lowering child mortality is white washing the main reason for the improvement; the dramatic increase in wealth and advancements from the Industrial Revolution. Indeed, the places where child mortality is still a big problem are the least industrialized areas.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
It’s really incredible they’re trying this approach after 4 years of posting “Ridin’ with Biden” memes.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
