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To start, I want to share with you guys something about my hometown of Norwalk, Ohio.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
Now, as this video stated, I'm from Norwalk, which is an extremely small town, about 15,000 people.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
And really, in Norwalk, if you want to do something fun, you go to Walmart or drive half an hour to something more interesting.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
For Norwalk, I've lived there for my entire life.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
I'm a senior at the local public high school.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
And, you know, it's something to where I really enjoy my small town, and I'm just a normal kid.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
You know, I lead debate clubs, I volunteer at my church.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
And back in November of 2018, I made a small Reddit post asking for advice on an issue that I was encountering that I needed some clarification on.
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And this issue, as was stated in this introduction, was something towards vaccinations and how I was not immunized against various diseases, including polio and measles, as well as influenza, HPV, hepatitis, and the standard vaccines someone my age would receive.
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Now, this question I asked was simple and pretty strange because, you know, I wanted to get vaccinated.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
That's kind of weird, but, you know, it happened.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
And then this turned into a public story because I wanted to get vaccinated.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
So that was kind of strange, and then it blew up more, and I was doing interviews and talking to more people.
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And again, I'm a normal kid.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
I'm not a scientist.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
I don't lead a nonprofit.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
I am, again, a pretty casual person.
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Information Inoculation: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
I'm wearing a hoodie.
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