Just when we thought anti-vaxxers had reached the deepest possible depths of stupid.....

[moonshaz]

.....they go and prove us wrong!

TN newborns get rare bleeding disorder after parents refused vitamin K shots
4 babies diagnosed with preventable bleeding disorder

A bleeding disorder in babies so rare that it typically affects fewer than one in 100,000 is becoming more common in Tennessee because parents are refusing vitamin K injections at

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[sorchekyrkby]

SWEET BLEEDING JESUS PEOPLE NATURAL NEWS IS NOT AN UNBIASED SOURCE OH FOR FUCKS SAKE WHY WON'T PEOPLE LISTEN TO THEIR DOCTORS WHO WENT THROUGH OVER A DECADE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION WHY WHY WHY

*ahem*

I feel slightly better.

[beoweasel]

BUT DON'T YOU SEE? THEY'RE PART OF BIG VACCINATION!! THEY WANT THE SWEET MONIES AND WILL ALWAYS TELL YOU TO GET A VACCINE! WE CAN'T TRUST THEM.

[perthro]

Honestly, I've had some pretty hideously bad doctors. Like seriously horribly superbad doctors. It's like they get their degrees from a Cheerios box in Tampa. Doctors who told me that juvenile diabetes doesn't exist. That my heart must have failed because I just can't admit that I'm being abused (I was holding my records of blood clots and DVT), or that it's because I'm a drug-addicted whore who somehow detoxed in 12 hours to go to a hospital to... reject* painkillers. Must be part of my secret plot

[muizenstaartje]

I think most people can tell a story of either someone close to them or a vague story about the mother of a friend of a neighbour who was terribly misdaignosed or died because a doctor messed up. It makes people distrustful.
Luckily I've also had good experiences to make up for the bad, but most people tend to remember the negative ones better.

[proofs]

These are not supported by science but certainly have made the rounds on the Internet.

BUT WHAT ABOUT INTERNET FACTS

[mollybarton]

*double facepalm, headdesk*

[kitanabychoice]

Apparently we're going to have to go back to the Dark Ages of medicine before people remember why we started vaccinating the populace. I'm especially suspect of the "I don't want my baby to be in pain" line of reasoning because it's not like it's a lasting, chronic pain. Unlike having to have surgery to drain blood from your head and potentially having seizures for the rest of your life.

[tabaqui]

OMFG, this. How can people compare a few seconds of needle-stick to SURGERY or seizures?

[homasse]

It's "It Won't Happen To ME" Syndrome.

[romp]

I care about introducing my son to the world and then hurting him and I remember that vit K burns like fire...but, yeah, it's worth it and ends after a minute or so.

I grew up hearing about a great-grandfather who was accidentally blinded by a nurse, another who died of gangrene, and peers of my *sisters* who had polio. My parents had a real appreciation of medical advances. I can be wary of new procedures but I think that background balances me. I bet you're right that a lot of anti-vac'ers are probably completely removed from those realities.

[effervescent]

I really think that in order for this crap to stop, kids are going to have to start *dying*... So that their parents realise just how idiotic they were being. It just makes me so frustrated because these kids are helpless :/ I almost think that vaccines should be mandated at schools to try and stop this because it could easily trigger an epidemic in the future.

[ashen_key]

Unfortunately, kids Are dying - the trouble is, they are going to have to start dying in way greater numbers so it gets through people's head.

Again.

Fucking anti-vaxxers.

[jeweledvixen]

All 50 states have certain vaccines that are required before the child can go to public schools. It varies from state to state which vaccines are required, though. Unfortunately, that doesn't cover private schools or home-schooled children.

[nextdrinksonme]

And supposedly it's pretty easy to exempt your kids due to religious or personal reasons. I had someone who is anti-vacc tell me how she lied about religious reasons so that her kids could go to school. And advised me to do the same, since I needed certain vaccines to go to another country and my childhood vaccination records had been lost, so I had no idea what I did or didn't already have and had to get a blood test.