Measles Outbreak Blamed on Vaccine Truthers Causing Irrational Epidemic. Health Crisis Inevitable.

[evildevil]

Freedumb: Let the Ignorant Masses Decide How Are We Going to Get Infected and Die.

Measles outbreak! Vaccine trutherism now officially a public health crisis
It's never been more important to take the infectious disease seriously

It’s back. Three years after public health officials realized that they had been preemptive in declaring that measles

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[shadwrayvn]

I always said anti-vaxxers are dangerous fucking idiots & now are children are going to suffer for their lies & idiocy! Fucking morons!

[mickeym]

Jesus Christ, this makes me crazy. In this day and age, to have any of the common childhood illnesses around is nuts, and to have them BACK because people are too stupid to understand that the risks outweigh the benefits is beyond nuts.

I have a friend on FB who is very anti-vax. She did this whole 'bragging' thing last month about how her eldest daughter and the daughter's whole family had whooping cough, and it wasn't any worse than a bad cold, and what the hell do we need those vaccinations for anyway. AUGH. She doesn't seem to get that the vaccinations don't just help those who are vaccinated, but also those who can't BE vaccinated.

[idemandjustice]

It would be a big deal if my mom with COPD got it. Or someone's baby. These people really just piss me off to the point of incoherent rage.

[mickeym]

Yeah. Same -- I have severe asthma that's only barely controlled. :-/ (And a propensity for pneumonia; I've had it five times in the past ten years.)

And I just realized in my original comment I said "risks outweigh the benefits"... I got it backwards. It should read "the benefits outweigh the risks".

I blame allergies and benadryl.

[idemandjustice]

I didn't even notice the mistake! I grokked what you meant. :)

[lied_ohne_worte]

I can only say what I always say in these posts: My parents and all their siblings had measles. One of my aunts was delirious from fever, and my mother describes it as very scary; I think they've already beaten the odds by all six of them making it through without brain damage.

We had a teacher at school who had had polio, which means he had been walking with a severe limp ever since it happened - and he was one of the lucky ones.

And my mother (her sisters perhaps too) had tuberculosis as a child, because that's what you got after the war when you needed the nutrition in milk and couldn't always afford the luxury of buying milk from those farmers whose cows were assumed to be clean

[skittish_derby]

I am quite sure that the 'out of sight' aspect to polio and measles and other preventable illnesses contributed a LOT to the anti-vaxers momentum. If they lived it, and saw people die from it, they probably wouldn't have second thoughts about keeping their children and other people safe.

[nesmith]

I think that's a huge point for sure; it's because these assholes haven't seen someone in an iron lung or limping or being scarred from these illnesses that they have the luxury of pretending "oh they can't be that bad" and focusing instead on the possible and infrequent issues that sometimes come up with vaccines.

Although frankly I think some of these people are so delusional that even seeing it wouldn't make a difference. They won't let pesky things like facts interrupt their beliefs.

[the_siobhan]

I've been wondering about that lately. Given recent articles about what strategies are best for convincing an anti-vaxxer (short answer: none of them) I would like to see some data from interviews with the parents of kids who have contracted the disease to see if even that has convinced them.

[lastrega]

Anti-vaxers continue to minimise the seriousness of measles, refusing to admit that this is a disease that can kill you. As someone who did nearly die of it and was lucky to avoid brain injury from post-measles encephalitis, it makes me fucking furious.

[qara_isuke]

I hate anti-Vaxxers with the burning fury of a thousand suns. I hate the people that tell me I am stupid for not believing vaccines cause Autism, when I base my conclusions not on "the lamestream media" or "big pharma" .....but the years and years of intensive research by my mother, a Nurse who works in Clinical Research that has read every bit of research she could find since my brother was finally diagnosed as Autistic after over twenty years of not knowing what was up with him