Overturned street trolley during the Vaccine Revolt by antivaxxers in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1904

fox2263, 5 months ago

You can kind of sympathise with the antivaxxers of that time. It’s fucking 120 years ago. Medicine was still not very advanced and neither was education for the masses.

However, in 2024 people should be somewhat wiser.

PugJesus, 5 months ago

I don't know man, vaccination was still over 100 years old at that point.

gravitas_deficiency, 5 months ago

I’m a staunch supporter of public health myself, but the point about comparatively poor educational standards still stands.

SharkAttak, 5 months ago

All of those antivaxxers are dead now, and it surely is not a coincidence.

Candelestine, 5 months ago

In case anyone else wanted further reading:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_Revolt

Such a crazy period in world history. Until the tone of more recent times, I was always more of an Age of Sail kinda guy. The World Wars and their run-up was always a little too sad, since we should’ve known better.

It’s become more pertinent though.