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In reply to the discussion: There's a sudden, unexplained upsurge in the number of anti-vaxxers coming in to the clinic. [View all]tonyt53
(5,737 posts)A week after school was out for the summer, my entire family was placed in a hospital under quarantine. Mom, Dad, four girls, and three boys. We were there for 30 days. We were all negative for TB, but Dad had some illness that they had no name for at the time. None of the rest of us had it. We had all had our shots and we all had all of our "sugar cubes" for polio. Both were a massive national campaign to eradicate diseases. NOBODY complained, as people back then understood the realities of what happens when those diseases were left to infect anybody and everybody.
Now we are at a time when the anti-vaxers are screaming and people are listening because they are screaming. It is time for the rest of the sane public to speak up even louder. It is time for the TV cameras and news agencies to turn away from the anti-vaxers. Some of them have children that are autistic, but that nasty 'ol science has shown that vaccinations have nothing to do with it. It comes from the parents of the children. A lot easier to blame the shots instead of genetics. Hell. I have two sisters with Hashimoto's (thyroid), a niece, as well as myself and a sister with MS. Both are autoimmune issues in our genes, and we recognize that. But anti-vaxers? No way in hell.
Time for the anti-vaxers to spend a month in quarantine, or maybe a year. Ignorance and denial of proven science and research by anti-vaxers has no seat at the table and no sympathy from me. Yep, time for quarantine.