Thought the 1st: I wonder how many of these rabidly anti-vaxx people take their children to eat fast food, allow them to drink sodas or even feed them sea food caught from the oceans? Ocean Caught seafood contains massive amounts of mercury and other deadly poisons which have been proven to cause physical and mental damage when you eat too much and fast food/sodas have dozens of chemicals in them that can do harm (not to mention the fat and cholesterol in all those burgers and fries people eat.) I bet the answer to at least the fast food/soda part would be..most. So the idea you can rail against the "harmful" ingredients in Vaccines, but feed your kids poison is funny.
Thought the 2nd: Anti-Vaxxers keep whining about how people mock them and no one takes them seriously. They talk about how "instead of mocking them, doctors and scientists should sit down and try to talk to them rationally." Well news break! They've tried that, been trying it for years. But Anti-Vaxxers would rather get their scientific information from Celebrities, discredited Doctors and Doctors who kiss the butts of their patients by pretending to believe like they do.
See here's the thing, roughly 92% of Doctors agree that Vaccines are safe to get and serve a incredibly important purpose. (You know, to keep people from dying?) Think about that, 92%. Anti-Vaxxers would have you believe that those 92% are in the pockets of Evil Government/Big Pharmaceuticals and are part of some vast conspiracy to poison our children and weaken the world. They claim that the other 3% (5% have no opinion on the subject.) are the lone voices crying out in the wilderness trying to protect the world from evil.
See, that is the problem with trying to reason with Anti-Vaxx people. In their demented minds, they truly believe that there is a conspiracy to push vaccines, hide the side effects of the evil things and make everyone Autistic. If you produce the vast (and I do mean VAST) amount research conducted by thousands of researchers around the world that disproves their paranoia, they brush it off as part of the conspiracy. (Interestingly enough, this process is practically identical for Climate Change, but that is another blog entirely.)
So, I for one am perfectly willing to sit down and talk rationally about vaccines. I am willing to discuss their RARE side effects which can include death, brain damage and organ damage. I am willing to also point out that the diseases they defend against have much more frequent and just as horrific side effects. I am willing to discuss the facts. Note I said facts not BS inspired by one defrocked doctor in Europe or stories about how your neighbor's cousin's roommate's child got vaccines and got Autism/Lycanthropy/ADHD.
While Anti-Vaxxers rant on and on about "their right to choose," diseases that were, for all intents and purposes, wiped out are coming back. With 100s of cases of Measles and literally 1000s of cases of Whooping Cough popping up in areas where Anti-Vaxx groups congregate, who knows what fun almost forgotten disease will make an appearance next?
Oh and as a final note. For all of you ranting that Illegals from across the border are bringing in these diseases (Not yet proven, but possible) from across the border. Instead of using this as justification for people getting sick, don't you think the "fact" that aliens bringing plagues might just be an even better reason to get your child vaccinated? Just saying...
When all is said and done, Anti-Vaxxers are right. They have the right not to vaccinate their children. Yup and more power to them. I mean the world is already over crowded so when all your kids start dying off from easily preventable diseases, it just means there will be more space for the rest of us. However, your right not to vaccinate ends at your front door. (Well okay, I will give you your yards too.) From that point on, you are existing in the same world with the rest of us and some of us (For health reasons) cannot be vaccinated or (also for health reasons) have a severely suppressed immune system which makes us susceptible to illnesses. You don't have the right to put the rest of us at risk by bringing your non-vaccinated children into contact with us. So no vaccines, keep your kids at home and out of school. Simple as that.
End of Rant
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