Viral ignorance

[ron ll]

Hundreds rally to support vaccine exemptions in Washington state despite measles outbreak

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...outputType=amp

Most of us have probably seen the movie “Idiocracy”. It was suppose to be a comedy, not a tutorial.

[amish rob]

Electrolytes!

Peace,
Quiet! Batin'!

[Keith Wilson]

Refusing to vaccinate your children should qualify as child abuse.

[George Jung]

Every day, I encounter folks who are denialists. They read trash from folks selling 'natural supplements'; get their 'medical info' from the late nite tv ads for class action lawsuits; and they don't trust science or organized medicine.

Good times.

[ron ll]

Refusing to vaccinate your children should qualify as child abuse.

And rallying to convince others to be as stupid should be a mass hate crime.

[Old Dryfoot]

This is only going to get worse. There is money to be made and if a few people need to die so others can profit, well, that's capitalism baby!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...cine-activist/

Netflix has just given Paltrow a platform for her Goop brand. Pseudoscience rules in the post-truth age.

[ron ll]

The internet is great at sharing knowledge, one can easily find a YouTube video on how to change the brakepads in your car. Unfortunately it is just as good at sharing stupid.

[Peerie Maa]

The internet is great at sharing knowledge, one can easily find a YouTube video on how to change the brakepads in your car. Unfortunately it is just as good at sharing stupid.

Yes, hence my tag line.

[amish rob]

This is only going to get worse. There is money to be made and if a few people need to die so others can profit, well, that's capitalism baby!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...cine-activist/

Netflix has just given Paltrow a platform for her Goop brand. Pseudoscience rules in the post-truth age.

I named my child Apple. Obviously, I'm the person you should look to for advice.

Peace,
Wooden, But Related, So Working...

[oznabrag]

At the risk of drifting, I will say that I was amazed and gratified by a piece on NPR yesterday that brought home the fact that humans did not have access to effective anti-bacterial drugs until 1940.

I mean, I sorta 'knew' this, but somehow, I had not realized how many people pre-WWII died of infections we dismiss as trivial today.

[Art Haberland]

there are time I think the whole anti-vaxxor thing is just a form of population control. It does certainly does target the weakminded

[Keith Wilson]

humans did not have access to effective anti-bacterial drugs until 1940.

Sulfa drugs in the '30s, penicillin in 1940

[Gerarddm]

I think those people are king-hell stupid.

RFK Jr. is a prominent example.

[Jim Mahan]

Refusing to vaccinate your children should qualify as child abuse.

Reckless endangerment.

And rallying to convince others to be as stupid should be a mass hate crime.

And earning an obscene buck selling the marketing and cultivating the sheeple ought to be classified as a crime against humanity.

[Gib Etheridge]

there are time I think the whole anti-vaxxor thing is just a form of population control. It does certainly does target the weakminded

Trouble is it targets the kids who have no say in the matter, weak minded or not.

[oznabrag]

Sulfa drugs in the '30s, penicillin in 1940

OK.

Enough drift.

My apologies.

It seemed related at the time.

[Peerie Maa]

there are time I think the whole anti-vaxxor thing is just a form of population control. It does certainly does target the weakminded

But eugenics does not work.

[sharpiefan]

YAY KIDS!

Ethan Lindenberger, frustrated by years of arguments about his mother's anti-vaccination stance, staged a quiet defection on Reddit.
The Norwalk, Ohio, teenager needed advice, he said, on how to inoculate himself against both infectious disease and his family's dogma. At 18, he was old enough, Lindenberger explained. He wanted to get vaccinated. But he didn't know how.
"My parents think vaccines are some kind of government scheme," Lindenberger wrote days before Thanksgiving. "But, because of their beliefs I've never been vaccinated for anything, god knows how I'm still alive."
As anti-vaccination movements metastasize amid outbreaks of dangerous diseases, Internet-savvy teenagers are fact-checking their parents' decisions in a digital health reawakening - and seeking their own treatments in bouts of family defiance.
At least three self-described teenagers from different states told Reddit they have a common problem: Their parents are staunchly opposed to vaccination, and they fear for their health if they do not take action.
Different state laws affect how old minors need to be to make their own medical decisions.
Lindenberger's post drew more than 1,000 comments, including one from someone who identified as a nurse and provided detailed information on navigating the health-care system
For Lindenberger, the tension over vaccines started years ago after he began to notice his mother posting anti-vaccination videos on social media, he told The Washington Post on Sunday. His friends were getting vaccinated. So what was happening in his house?
Lindenberger read scientific papers and journals. He pulled up Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies on his phone at the dinner table, hoping his mother would relent and get him and his four younger siblings - now ages 16, 14, 5 and 2 - vaccinated.
"I looked into it, it was clear there was way more evidence in defense of vaccines," he said.

READ MORE AT.....
Teens With Antivax Parents Are Turning to Reddit For Advice on Getting Vaccinated (LINK)


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[Too Little Time]

Refusing to vaccinate your children should qualify as child abuse.

If you are going to make some healthcare decisions for others, where are you going to stop?

I think vaccinations are useful, but I am opposed to forcing others to accept my views.

[Old Dryfoot]

I named my child Apple. Obviously, I'm the person you should look to for advice.

Peace,
Wooden, But Related, So Working...

I know, eh? You keep your rock collection where? I'm sold!

[RonW]

--Robert F. Kennedy Jr: “Big Pharma Completely Owns Congress” ..

https://newspunch.com/robert-f-kenne...owns-congress/

[Gib Etheridge]

If you are going to make some healthcare decisions for others, where are you going to stop?

I think vaccinations are useful, but I am opposed to forcing others to accept my views.

The thing is, it's not a just a view, it's an indisputable fact that vaccinations work.

[ccmanuals]

If you are going to make some healthcare decisions for others, where are you going to stop?

I think vaccinations are useful, but I am opposed to forcing others to accept my views.

It's not surprising you miss characterized the question.

The question deals with children and decisions that are made on their behalf. Sounds to me like you don't believe that parents are capable of child abuse

[Bad Cargo]

They used to have colonies for people with contagious diseases like leprosy to protect the general population. Can't we just do that with all the Antivaxxers since they are a threat to the rest of us?
Works for me because I certainly don't want them endangering my kid.

[Flying Orca]

If you are going to make some healthcare decisions for others, where are you going to stop?

You're going to stop when it no longer puts people's lives in jeopardy without their consent. Which, to be clear, anti-vax parents do, and should not be allowed to do. Ditto the morons who try to treat their kids with "alternative medicine" and end up killing them, and the morons who think their invisible sky daddy doesn't like transfusions.

I don't care if they weed themselves out. I do care if they harm their kids.

[Art Haberland]

If you are going to make some healthcare decisions for others, where are you going to stop?

I think vaccinations are useful, but I am opposed to forcing others to accept my views.

I have a compromised immune system. Does this mean I have to sit back and get sick because some parents choose not to inoculate their kids and weaken the herd immunity that protects myself and others?

[Too Little Time]

I have a compromised immune system. Does this mean I have to sit back and get sick because some parents choose not to inoculate their kids and weaken the herd immunity that protects myself and others?

I will answer your question and ignore the others.

Measles occurs in the US only when it is imported from other countries. I would suggest that we do not allow foreign travel or travelers until measles no longer exists. That solves not only your problem but also the problem with people not getting vaccinations for their children.

For you in your particular situation, I would suggest that you stay at home until there are no local measles cases. There is no need for you to get sick.

I am sure you have a different view of what should be done.

[George Jung]

Bingo. Tlt offers a false equivalence. Without a high level of participation, you no longer have herd immunity. An antantivaxer colony is reasonable- but when the contagion hits , what to do? Burn it to the ground?

[oznabrag]

Measles has been mostly eradicated in the US by means of compulsory vaccination.

NEXT!

[McMike]

I'm vaccinated, why should I care about a bunch of stupid fooks who will most likely be dead within 25 years?

[George Jung]

Cervical cancer has been remarkably reduced in Australia- where there’s excellent compliance. Japan? Antivaxers paradise, virtually no vaccinations, very high cervical cancer rate. It’s not a difficult cipher.

[ron ll]

Measles has been mostly eradicated in the US by means of compulsory vaccination.

NEXT!

Come to Washington State. The antivaxers have made it possible to shop for your measles locally again.

[RonW]

I'm vaccinated, why should I care about a bunch of stupid fooks who will most likely be dead within 25 years?

Now your talking, I'm with you, I got mine too and to hell with these other people.

[McMike]

Now your talking, I'm with you, I got mine too and to hell with these other people.

Apparently you weren't vaccinated against stupid. Hey George, how long before it kills him?

[skuthorp]

--Robert F. Kennedy Jr: “Big Pharma Completely Owns Congress” ..

That is an entirely different problem RonW, and I agree that they do, along with big oil, the MIC, big finance and decreasingly big coal.
Your congress is completely 'owned'. Ours slightly less so, more bribed than owned.

And the post about quarantine for the unvaccinated may actually not be so far from the actuality, purely on a public health basis.
I also reckon the lawsuits that will emanate from the unvaccinated children in the future, and the parents of those infected because of the loss of herd immunity in the near present will drive these laws.