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In reply to the discussion: If you don't vaccinate your children. [View all]3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)149. As a pediatric nurse practitioner...
...I completely agree, and appreciate your advocacy.
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No, I'm done reading unreliable websites forced to the top of search engines by idiots.
Kurska
Sep 2014
#4
"No, I'm done reading unreliable websites forced to the top of search engines by idiots"
etherealtruth
Sep 2014
#10
Just please, for the love of God, don't ask her to list her pet peeves about restaurant servers.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2014
#133
"I do not accept any non-medical reasons why people don't vaccinate their kids. "...
SidDithers
Sep 2014
#153
Don't expect altruism from anti-vax idiots. They are selfish and acting selfishly. nt
TeamPooka
Sep 2014
#13
It's simple, if you're not a part of the solution then you're a part of the problem
groundloop
Sep 2014
#17
The way that results in less people (and especially children) dying pointlessly is the right way
bhikkhu
Sep 2014
#185
I don't think its elitist to say that a choice that protects oneself and others is a good choice
bhikkhu
Sep 2014
#224
I've been getting a flu shot every year ever since I moved into the apartment house where I live
Louisiana1976
Sep 2014
#26
You have the right to be selfish, and to inflict horrible diseases on your fellow citizens, yes.
riqster
Sep 2014
#146
There wasn't a problem, before anti-vaxxers created one out of thin air and stupidity.
Kurska
Sep 2014
#103
the way to deal with "the current problem" is for people to vaccinate their children.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2014
#110
The other day I sliced my hand open fixing a rusty gutter downspout.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2014
#114
The problem did exist. The problem was that the old DPT vaccine actually did injure or kill
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#139
But DUers often link this organization, founded in 1982, to the "anti-vax crowd."
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#164
That's the subjective opinion of whoever wrote the WIKI article. But thank you, that is the point
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#214
I respect the organization that worked so hard to get the whole cell DPT vaccine replaced
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#221
First of all, it's never been the case that most parents could isolate their babies completely...
LeftishBrit
Nov 2014
#234
All posts like this do is drive people further into their entrenched positions
Ms. Toad
Sep 2014
#31
More of the same - and vaccinations are not as simple, from a scientific standpoint,
Ms. Toad
Sep 2014
#35
The only aspect and key part of the issue is if we don't achieve herd immunity people die.
Kurska
Sep 2014
#45
Not familiar with the promising comprehensive approach described in the Mumper study? Check it out.
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2014
#196
If the audience comes into these threads suggesting "people should just keep their newborns at home
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2014
#130
No, it has nothing to do with pet issues, it has to do with objective reality.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2014
#199
The world isn't flat either, demons don't cause illnesses and vaccines are safe.
Kurska
Sep 2014
#75
Between 1986 and 2010 nearly $2 billion dollars were awarded to victims of vaccine injuries
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#168
Do you have productive discussions with idiots who think the world is flat? Demons cause disease?
X_Digger
Sep 2014
#46
No, they are not 'not settled'. No more than Ken Ham's beliefs about young earth are 'not settled'.
X_Digger
Sep 2014
#59
<-- former nurse, public health worker, oncology unit staff, and medical equipment engineer.
X_Digger
Sep 2014
#62
I agree and am done responding to any of them. I have an autistic son and he has had all of his
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2014
#66
Oh brother. You rudely respond to my post to accuse me of being rude.
beam me up scottie
Sep 2014
#125
Pushing anti-science fictions is quite rude, too. And you've done that plenty.
HuckleB
Sep 2014
#220
You're still touting the fallacy that if not 100% effective, it's not worth it al all
Sheepshank
Sep 2014
#194
At what age would it have been acceptable for one of your kids to die from a preventable disease?
Lars39
Sep 2014
#205
DU is heavily pro-vaccine. Vaccine truthers do and should have a hard time on this forum.
Kurska
Sep 2014
#186
Or it could be that the anti-vaccine idiots are actually anti-science idiots.
beam me up scottie
Sep 2014
#222
You are so smart, damn, I wish I could have just a snippet of your grey matter.
Puzzledtraveller
Sep 2014
#223