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If you don't vaccinate your kids, or yourselves without clear medically sound, scientifically valid reasons:

Stay the fuck away from everyone else

Go find a damned island where you all can die from easily preventable diseases, that we can ring with warning buoys and "Dangerously Stupid" on maps. But stay out of schools, businesses, libraries and anywhere else that people who aren't allowing fear to override common sense go. It's idiots like you that have made things like Measles and Polio start showing up in noticeable numbers again, and it's only polite to practice your dangerous idiocy far from the rest of us, so there's no chance of it hurting us.

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Comments

1: where did this rant come from?
2: Some people are concerned that there's a link between autism and early childhood vaccinations, although whether there is sound evidence of this possibility or just a statistical coincidence I don't know. Even so I can see why people would be concerned and want this looked into.
3: if they don't get vaccinated and you do, its no big deal for you, since your body can fight off the disease and theirs can't.
You are actually more of a threat to them than they are to you, like Europeans and their smallpox immunity were a threat to native Americans.

Posted by: Sketch | May 27, 2008 8:55 AM

1) it comes from people refusing to get their kids vaccinated and then sending them to school.

2) There is no science whatsoever behind the vaccines cause autism link. There has been, in all the years of hysteria and ever-changing goalposts, (It's thimerosal, it's environmental mercury, it's the number of vaccinations, it's other things in the vaccinations, it's thimerosal again!), one provable case where vaccines were a causal agent for autism, and that wasn't 100% the vaccine's fault, but rather they aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder.

It HAS been looked into, but the answers coming back keep pointing not to environmental causes or vaccines, but rather genetic causes, and that's why people won't accept that, because for some reason it makes them feel like it's their fault. While, in a brutal sense, that's true, it's not a deliberate decision, nor is it anything that can be easily prevented. Sometimes, you get the right combination of genes, and bang! Fucked up shit happens.

3) Vaccinations are not magic spells, nor are they permanent. If they were permanent, then "booster shots" would not exist in the lexicon. It is easy to be in a situation where you're coming up due for a booster and someone who couldn't be bothered to be vaccinated was able to transmit the disease to you. As well, *again*, vaccines are not, nor ever were, magical. They do not, nor can they *guarantee* immunity. For example, in addition to AIDS, there are a number of conditions that can lower immunity, vaccines or no.

Also, it wasn't "Europeans and their smallpox *immunity*" that were a threat to American Indians. It was the *smallpox* that europeans brought over in droves. Generally accepted vaccinations in this country are a relatively new thing. Keep in mind that Jenner did not test his smallpox vaccine until 1796, a good 170 years after the Mayflower landings, and that even at that time, the smallpox vaccine was did not completely prevent it. Smallpox could, and did occur in those who had been vaccinated, but was simply less virulent.

Posted by: John C. Welch | May 27, 2008 9:49 AM