11/The exposure of Willowbrook & other asylums, subsequent investigations, and lawsuits are why we are seeing far more high support needs autistics & intellectually disabled in public. Before 1980s, they were in asylums. DD/ID people have always existed; we just stopped hiding them in dark places

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10/If one wants to see the world anti-vaxxers seek to recreate, watch Geraldo’s 1972 exposé on Willowbrook. Like asylum eugenicists, anti-vaxx eugenicists want to eradicate disabled people by any means necessary. It’s why they erase disabilities caused by infectious diseases youtu.be/wxo_FkknQ5s?...

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9/They didn’t vaccinate institutionalized people bc they were seen as not human. They WANTED them to catch infectious diseases to kill them. It wasn’t a tragic mistake; it was eugenics. Institutionalized people were seen as grotesque. Willowbrook didn’t close until 1987. This is modern history.

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8/But darker still, most of the patients at Willowbrook didn’t have HepB only from medical neglect, soaking in fecal matter, or no vaccines, but because a doctor and his team conducted experimentation on humans there, intentionally gave them HepB, then didn’t medically treat it, to study them.

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7/In 1972, Willowbrook Institution was exposed & investigated, they found that 9 in 10 patients had Hep B, which ran rampant there because of all the abuse and medical neglect. Willowbrook wasn’t an anomaly, but the norm for asylums, but an even darker reason for high rates of HepB…

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