Anti-vaxxers go viral in communities battling measles

[Celerity]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/antivaxxers-go-viral-in-communities-battling-measles/2019/05/20/a476417c-78d7-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html?utm_term=.284d7bec05c0

MONSEY, N.Y. — In a suburban shopping center an hour north of New York City, hundreds of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered in a sex-partitioned ballroom to hear leaders of the national anti-vaccine movement.

Sustained applause greeted Del Bigtree, a former television producer-turned-activist who often wears a yellow star of David , similar to those required of Jews in Nazi Germany, to show solidarity with parents ordered to keep unvaccinated children at home.

Bigtree described the purported dangers of childhood vaccines in phrases that also conjured the Nazis.

“They have turned our children into the largest human experiment in history — all of history,” he said.

The turnout last week in this suburb hard hit by measles helps explain why New York has become ground zero in one of this country’s largest and longest-lasting measles outbreak in nearly 30 years. Even in a religious community grappling with more than 700 cases in Rockland County and New York City since last fall — among them, children on oxygen in intensive care units — anxious and confused parents said they came because they are afraid of vaccines and seeking guidance about what to do.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Religious ignorance is redundant...

[Initech]

2. And it all comes back to Hitler.

[Igel]

4. Highly polarized speech ...

Often resorts to Hitler.

Unless you're actually comparing policies and numbers in any sort of realistic way, "Hitler" is indexical for "polarized".

[Bradshaw3]

3. Yeah, vaccinations and gas chambers are totally the same

Unbelievable. Actually Mr. Bigtree you are closer to the killers with your "crusade" resulting in many needless deaths.

[11 Bravo]

5. Fine. Home school your spawn, and then keep them away from ...

all youth sports leagues, public swimming pools, and any social gatherings other than the monthly meetings of your local Dumb-Ass Anti-Vaxxers Club.

And then fuck all the way off.