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MohRokTah

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6. Back when I was a kid, parents LOVED vaccines.

Reply to onecaliberal (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 2, 2015, 10:25 PM

Feb 2015

They all remembered the horrors of these diseases.

So everybody complied with the recommendations. I got the MMR vaccine even though I had already had all three.

Those memories are dying and now younger parents have no fucking clue at how bad it can be.

And ridiculous Ayn Randian libertarian beliefs make matters even worse.

The biggest anti-vaxxer group in the world right now is the Taliban. This is the sort of people the Jenny McCarthy typse and the rest of the anti-Vaxxers are making common cause with.

And kids are dying of polio because of the anti-vaxxer bullshit of the Taliban, and that's why we are incapable of eradicating this horrible disease.

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Dangerous diseases have been eradicated because we all vaccinated our children. [View all] onecaliberal Feb 2015 OP

My parents didn't vaccinate me HockeyMom Feb 2015 #1

You were born prior to 1798? Liberal Veteran Feb 2015 #3

Dpt and polio HockeyMom Feb 2015 #9

Yes, we get it, you survived. NuclearDem Feb 2015 #4

Glad you anti-vaxxer trolls think polio is funny geek tragedy Feb 2015 #8

Doctors generally perform that task. TheCowsCameHome Feb 2015 #10

We are EXTREMELY close to eradicating polio. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #2

It's a very serious deal. There are many people onecaliberal Feb 2015 #5

Back when I was a kid, parents LOVED vaccines. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #6

People definitely have no idea. onecaliberal Feb 2015 #7

You can thank the CIA for putting back eradication efforts, as well, unfortunately Spider Jerusalem Feb 2015 #12

I was aware of that. It's sad and extreme unfortunate. onecaliberal Feb 2015 #13

I know, and it sucks. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #14

I've generally stayed out of the lists on this one. But I must ask: are there some parents who are KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #16

Most anti-vaxxers refuse all vaccinations. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #17

Yes many give none. onecaliberal Feb 2015 #18

My God. I wonder what Jonas Salk would have to say. He didn't make a dime KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #19

Polio is no longer a routine vaccination in the US. jeff47 Feb 2015 #24

Is that right? I had no idea, just knew that it devastated families back in the 20th Century and one KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #25

I believe so. Cleita Feb 2015 #11

The last case of smallpox in the wild on the planet was in Sudan in 1978. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #15

My wife is a Pediatrics nurse. Adsos Letter Feb 2015 #20

Or probably whooping cough, which I got at the age of four, but is now Cleita Feb 2015 #21

Yup. Although they've certainly begun to see it Adsos Letter Feb 2015 #23

Yes, whooping cough is back in California onecaliberal Feb 2015 #26

Even in my old age I get all the shots I should have like flu and pnuemonia Cleita Feb 2015 #22