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Yes, by choosing the most extreme people to be the face of criticism of vaccines, the valid criticisms - such as the rampant US-led programmes re: HPV, the flu, and so on - were obscured, and we may now be facing a sort of backlash to this, meaning that these extremists (the kind that insist sugar is toxic due to the whitening process, or that "keto" is a valid methoed for dieting and so on) may well pull the Overton-window so far the other way we'll again see outbreaks of the old plagues.

It's not only viral diseases that are affected, vaccine-hesitancy and medical skepticism may well lead to bacterial diseases making a comeback, especially if infrastructure start breaking down.

In Stockholm, there's still a burial pit that's condemned due to it still having highly infectious live bacteri from a cholera outbreak more than 150 yeas ago. It's a mass-grave with over a hundred bodies just thrown in and covered in quick-lime, left to its own devices.

Imagine if this would start leaking leachate into sewer or water lines. As any old european city, those systems are a hodge-podge of newer built upon older all the way back to the 14th century.

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