Neil deGrasse Tyson

So, even though Columbus was a dick, okay?

So to come around and say, I don't need vaccines because I'm not getting sick, that's like saying, why are you using dandruff shampoo?

You don't have dandruff.

Okay.

The most important thing he did was reconnect two branches of the human species that had been separated for 10,000 years.

I don't want to get it.

That's my point.

If you're successful, people think you don't need it.

when that's what's creating the ongoing success in the first place.

Like when all these scientists was coming up with these inventions, these great inventions, antibiotics, all this stuff that helped polio and wiped out all these- Right, the vaccines.

Okay?

Had that never reconnected, that's the precise setup for biological evolution to have a branch separate away from the branch that got it there.

The vaccines.

Were they deniers back then?

That's why Australia's animals are so weird.

As much as they- There were some people who did not want to be vaccinated, especially since-

Yes.

Because Australia separated from the mainland long ago.

Yes.

On an evolutionary time scale.