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[mordantcarnival]

The thought of anti-vaxxers snivelling over not being able to tell their side of the story is a lot like the thought of a Vibrio cholerae bacterium wanting to tell its side of the Broad Street cholera outbreak.

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[estaratshirai]

Interestingly, last night's SVU was the "vaccinate your kids you selfish bastards" episode.

If only it had been written better.

[mordantcarnival]

Just Googled the episode. Nice title, haha! Oh, the howls of "I'm not selfish, I'm an informed mother!"

[blahflowers]

They've got Jim Carey on HuffPo and Jenny McCarthy on Oprah, how many forums do they need to show their ignorance?

[mordantcarnival]

They're getting a bit frantic now because after 10 years of having the news media on their side touting the hoax at every opportunity, people have started getting sick and dying at a rate that sells more papers than lying about vaccines. The more moderate members of the anti-vax movement are peeling away, and soon it'll just be the hardcore science-haters and autie-bashers left.

[mordantcarnival]

"Hey, everyone blames me, but correlation does not imply causation, y'know? Maybe the Govrenment put experimental mind-control agents in the water supply! Removing pump handles causes autism!"

[ghostpaw]

This sort of crap makes me so angry. The shear selfishness of it is unbelievable. So, there's a minute chance my kids might have a reaction to the vaccine, so it's ok that the 2ish% of the population who can't be vaccinated and need herd immunity to protect them should catch measles and all the nasty sequelae there associated. Grr! >:(

Can't find a link to a press report, but at the moment we're trying to hold down a measles outbreak at the PACH started by, quel suprise, a couple of kids who's parents don't 'believe' in vaccination.

[mordantcarnival]

It is so infuriating. This whole situation never needed to happen. Even with the recent media backpedalling there's still a huge, huge problem with vaccine uptake.

The anti-vax hoax is one of the most dangerous, scariest things to happen in the last 20 years IMO. The potential for vaccine resistant strains to arise because of all this is very real.

[janinazew]

I keep running into this issue recently and it makes me want to have a full blown tantrum.

[janinazew]

... these people need to be released on an island, isolated from the rest of society. Let them deal with all of those illnesses without the protection of our vaccines. Let them see what that means.

[maradydd]

Agreed. When polio finds its way there, let's see how quickly they change their tune.

[mordantcarnival]

That's always been my preferred solution. If it were possible to revoke vaccinations in adults, I'd bloody well do that before ditching them..