In the hallway the other day a colleague stopped me and said, “Hey, do you want to see something funny?”
“Sure,” I said, and he showed me the YouTube video called “How Anti-Vaxxers Sound to Normal People.” The video highlighted that those who choose not to vaccinate themselves or their children do so for reasons that do not make sense, and frankly seem somewhat absurd. It is a very funny video, and I felt common ground with all aspects of it. We laughed, and then I went back to my daily work of seeing patients.
I thought about the video repeatedly over the following days, and it reminded me of a similarly powerful video I had seen recently as well, “Penn and Teller on Vaccinations.” This video portrays two individuals rolling balls through plastic figurines that represented people. The balls, as infectious agents, knock down (kill) the plastic figurines that represented people. Half of the “population” is protected by a plexiglass board (vaccines), and the other half not.
The purpose of the video is to show how vaccines are extremely effective shields, protecting individuals from infectious disease (the ball easily wipes out the unprotected people, whereas the people protected by vaccines are not harmed). What struck me, however, was how angry and adamant the two individuals appear. I realized that between these two videos, although yes, I agreed with the message, I did not feel very good about them.
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