What's worse is the "Just Asking Questions" anti-vaxxers that I've encountered over the last few days, these inexplicable people who both vaccinate their children yet search for any angle to confirm that those same vaccinations are, in fact, dangerous.
First they'll ask what risk not being vaccinated poses to others if they've been vaccinated themselves. So I'll explain it to them, using Luckie as an example: she's immunosuppressed, what she catches from other people can easily get serious. Instead of taking that as an answer, they'll instead be skeptical, as though somehow they can question Luckie into non-existence: what's the actual chances of people like her getting sick and dying from that? And I respond by pointing out how offensive it is that they're willing to gamble my wife's life, anyone's life against the largely illusory risks of vaccines, and the pridefulness of certain parents, but I also provide the answer: what risk there is only rises the more people refuse to vaccinate, the more diseases they refuse to vaccinate against, and the more opportunities this allows viruses to mutate in a live host and transfer to those that are vaccinated.
I've had the same conversation twice now; in the first instance the response was to merely insist that the chances of getting sick and dying from an unvaccinated person was low, and in the second they changed the subject to allergies to vaccination, as though presenting a small risk invalidates the rising risk I'd posited. In neither case was any evidence presented by these people, though they expected reams of it from me.
Those are the people that really baffle me, the ones who, as FreeTony said, seem addicted to the idea of having beliefs counter to accepted science, even when they've vaccinated themselves. At least proper anti-vaxxers have stuck to their beliefs; these assholes are doing it just to be different.
First they'll ask what risk not being vaccinated poses to others if they've been vaccinated themselves. So I'll explain it to them, using Luckie as an example: she's immunosuppressed, what she catches from other people can easily get serious. Instead of taking that as an answer, they'll instead be skeptical, as though somehow they can question Luckie into non-existence: what's the actual chances of people like her getting sick and dying from that? And I respond by pointing out how offensive it is that they're willing to gamble my wife's life, anyone's life against the largely illusory risks of vaccines, and the pridefulness of certain parents, but I also provide the answer: what risk there is only rises the more people refuse to vaccinate, the more diseases they refuse to vaccinate against, and the more opportunities this allows viruses to mutate in a live host and transfer to those that are vaccinated.
I've had the same conversation twice now; in the first instance the response was to merely insist that the chances of getting sick and dying from an unvaccinated person was low, and in the second they changed the subject to allergies to vaccination, as though presenting a small risk invalidates the rising risk I'd posited. In neither case was any evidence presented by these people, though they expected reams of it from me.
Those are the people that really baffle me, the ones who, as FreeTony said, seem addicted to the idea of having beliefs counter to accepted science, even when they've vaccinated themselves. At least proper anti-vaxxers have stuck to their beliefs; these assholes are doing it just to be different.
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