(September 5, 2015 at 4:26 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:

(September 5, 2015 at 3:43 am)Neimenovic Wrote: Sure, they're not that bad. They just purposefully deny their children treatment for nasty and otherwise easily preventable diseases, putting hundreds of other children at risk. No fucking biggie -_-

I'm all for having your own opinion. But when your opinion gives someone else's child measles, it's time to shove it up your ass.

I don't think thats how vaccinations work!

No?? But then....HANG ON A MINUTE >:c

I don't have sympathy for anti vaxxers. I only have sympathy for babies and little kids who need to get stabbed with needles for their own good, and don't understand why.

I agree, putting your own kids in danger is bad enough but risking the population in general is way beyond a "personal decision".

For one i have no sympathy for anti-vaxxers they put their childs life at risk and others because they do not want their child to get a vaccine.
Another thing whooping cough has returned and other nasty things it wont be too long before you start seeing people start getting polio.
This is why for the lack of a better word.. the morons of the gene pool are just weeding themselves out and dragging their kids with them.
It's frustrating enough too see homeopathic medications on store shelves which are just sugar pills then there is the slap in the face of modern medicine
and science because people do not want to get a shot that will help them. So yeah i do not sympathize with anti vaxxers.

Sympathy is good and all, but it takes too damn long with no guaranteed end results.

The same sympathy argument can be made for criminals as well, but locking them up is usually a better solution due to time and resources.

The problem of Anti-vaxxers is exacerbated by quack doctors who proclaim things like Vaccines cause Autism. Then you have people like Jenny McCarthy (what is it with McCarthy's and their witch hunts?) who spread the word. And people start trusting Jenny McCarthy over their doctors.

As a High School teacher, I'm required to get my flu shot every year. (They offer it at our school, but I can't get it there because I have a severe latex allergy. And while they would accommodate me, I'd rather trust my pharmacist) If i were an Anti-Vaxxer, I'd potentially be putting many of my students in danger. Just as children who don't get vaccinated potentially put other children at risk. Particularly ones who cannot be vaccinated for reasons such as severe allergies and auto-immune defeciencies.

It's also in a way a form of child abuse not to get your children vaccinated. It makes them susceptible to easily preventable diseases.

Feel free to have sympathy for them. But they need to be educated on the dangers of not vaccinating their children, and shouldn't be allowed to just close their eyes and refuse to immunize their children.

I had an idea. What if we add vaccine education into the usual prenatal classes? Give people a basic understanding of how vaccine works, and why we worked to create them. Then show them a video of a 2 year old dying from polio, and show them the effects of the permanent disability caused by polio. Show them a toddler in a mist tent struggling to live as he does from the whooping cough.

Hmm, what do I think. Hmmm...

I think all the anti-vaxxers could collectively die in a fire and it wouldn't effect me at all, I really dislike them and would rather they get off my planet.

(September 5, 2015 at 6:19 pm)thehedglin Wrote: Hmm, what do I think. Hmmm...

I think all the anti-vaxxers could collectively die in a fire and it wouldn't effect me at all, I really dislike them and would rather they get off my planet.

You are wrong about that.  If they all died in a fire, then they would no longer be causing people to not be vaccinated, and consequently would not be causing diseases that should be eradicated to continue to exist.  In other words, they are not only harming themselves and their children, they are harming other people, too.  This is why they should be condemned.  If they only harmed themselves, then I would have no problems with that.  As far as I am concerned, anyone may commit suicide at any time.  But these fucking assholes cause diseases to spread among people who are not as fucking stupid as they are, and they are rightly condemned for that.

Anti-vaxxers get no sympathy from me.