(September 26, 2017 at 4:50 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Seriously, though. Every single vaccination thread should be exactly one post long. Someone should post something like https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/48/...Hypotheses, then everyone in the thread should instantly post. . . "Oh, thanks for link. Setting appointment with doctor right now" and the conversation should be fucking finished.
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Seriously, I have a child on the spectrum and he gets his vaccinations on schedule every time. Junk science is junk.
I have to wonder - anti-vaxxers are afraid of the non-existent risk of autism, but aren't afraid of the very real risk of starting or being part of an outbreak of a serious, possibly fatal, communicable disease?
That's just plain irrational and ignorant.
Should irrational, ignorant beliefs be ignored when setting public health policy? You're damn right they should.
Freedom? Is turning your kid into a disease vector a right? Is this what we're defending? You don't have a right to infect other people with communicable diseases. You don't have the right to not buckle your kids up either. This is potentially *worse* because you're not just affecting your own kids.
