12.9 million infants not vaxed in 2016

[Kitan Etos]

[vorlon13]

I've long advocated full immunizations for all stock in our pediatric veal production facilities.

[brewer]

[The Grand Nudger]

Ignorance is causing us to creep closer towards falling below the herd immunity threshold that;s protected ignorance all these years, in some areas and demographics it already has, particularly those areas where anti vaxxers ply their trade for profit. Good job first, doing no harm, assholes.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ignorance is causing us to creep closer towards falling below the herd immunity threshold that;s protected ignorance all these years, in some areas and demographics it already has, particularly those areas where anti vaxxers ply their trade for profit.  Good job first, doing no harm, assholes.

Well, maybe.  But think how cute Junior will look when his smallpox pustules match the polka dots on his jim-jams.  Not to mention how much Mum and Dad will save on shoes when the little tyke contracts polio and can't walk.

Boru

[Court Jester]

That's possibly 12.9 million more available jobs in the future.

[Astonished]

That's possibly 12.9 million more available jobs in the future.

Well at least we'd know that most of them would have grown up to be the kind of people who'd be anti-science, anti-evolution and whatnot. Interesting how it's actually evolution that's removing these parents' genes from the pool. It's win-freakin'-win. Yes, that is sarcastic hyperbole. Fuck those parents. If not for religion's anti-science campaign this bullshit would either not exist or be so isolated it wouldn't make the most obscure newspaper. The worst part is most of these fucking parents think their dead kids are in heaven so it's not even a bad thing, really, to them. They literally can't lose. And the ones who get arrested for negligence are fucking martyrs. Sickening. No one should have any reason to wonder why I am so fucking hostile towards irrationality.

[Rev. Rye]

[Astonished]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/nearly-1...d-in-2016/

Okay, I cannot in good conscience let a mention of the Diptheria-Tetanus vaccine go by without mentioning this:



Okay, in all seriousness, can anyone find the WHO report (specifically where they explained how different areas differed in how commonly they opted out of giving their children the medical care they needed to not get diseases?) Knowing what I know, I strongly suspect that the more Islam-oriented areas might be the biggest offenders, given that Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria are the only countries where polio is still endemic, two of them are almost exclusively Muslim, and the few cases to appear recently in the third were all in a majority-Muslim area with large problems with Boko Haram, I think it may be possible.

Ever read Hitchens' God is Not Great? Fantastic part about exactly that, and how the (Muslims in Africa) twisted it to get people to be afraid of polio vaccines.

[Rev. Rye]