Are anti-vaxxers the ultimate proof humanity is too stupid to live?

[Kurska]

We currently live in an age where a child can expect to live a long and healthy life. It wasn't always this way. What are now considered preventable diseases (through vaccination) used to claim a yearly grim harvest of lives both young and old. Contrasted with today, in the past you could expect a number of any children you had to be killed or crippled by diseases like smallpox and polio. Through modern medicine, especially vaccinations, we've wiped out diseases that used to be considered just another dark inevitability of life.

Today an ever growing number of parents are looking at the greatest accomplishment of evidence based medicine and are declaring "Screw that, I know better.".

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/wealthy-la-schools-vaccination-rates-are-as-low-as-south-sudans/380252/

Some areas of country currently have vaccination rates as low as third world countries torn apart by civil war. Not only is this causing a resurgence of diseases that had been previously declare dead in America, it is portending the possibility of something much darker. Just as we fret over the possibility of ebola going airborne, we also need to realize that every single new infection in our communities gives these viruses a chance to mutate. It opens up the possibility that these viruses could adapt, becoming more deadly, more transmissible or god forbid all these things while at the same time gaining new means to attack the already vaccinated. A new scourge that in our interconnected and independent society could kill thousands if not millions, before modern medicine could muzzle it. Laugh off this possibility all you want, by giving these deadly diseases a new foothold in our society we are risking the rise of something much darker.

Are we really so idiotic as to snatch death and pestilence from the jaws of health and advancement? Vaccination rates in our country are increasingly attesting to the possibility that we might be.

[rock]

1. Only the anti-vaxxers

Would be my guess.

[hifiguy]

2. This entire "movement" is fucking insane

and I say that as someone who has been diagnosed multiple times as being on the autism spectrum, and the autism connection has always been the anti-vaxxers' boogeyman. Autism is genetically linked and deals with the way the brain is wired before while it is developing pre-natally. No reputable evidence suggests otherwise.

It is the left's version of fluoride in the water system and it disgusts me. Ignorance is ignorance whether it comes from Michele Bachmann or RFK Jr.

[sharp_stick]

3. Unfortunately people

have incredibly short memories and the dumbest among them pretty much refuse to even admit this.

Very few people remember the quarantine signs, iron lungs or polio implements, all they see are happy healthy kids. The fact that some really nefarious pieces of shit like "Dr." Andrew Wakefield spur them on pisses me off all the more.

You can bet that these jackoffs would be the first back on the bandwagon after watching a bunch of neighborhood babies die from Diphtheria or Scarlet Fever.

[Kurska]

6. I really fear the only thing that will convince these people is a major plague or scourge.

Then in 100 years we'll need to repeat the process.

Why are people so dumb?

[Newsjock]

4. Yes, we are.

n/t

[Archae]

5. The anti-vaxx crowd shows no bias, towards liberal or conservative.

Conservative darling Sharyl Atkisson was a reporter at CBS news, and breathlessly reported on "autism = vaccinations."
Even though she had nothing to back up her claims.

I've seen liberals bragging about how they had chicken pox, measles, etc, so they were "immune."
My Dad had measles when he was a kid.
And he was absolutely miserable with a bad case of shingles.

Kooks like RFK Jr and the above mentioned Sharyl Atkisson gets lauded by liberals.

And in the article, rich, entitled Americans are neglecting to vaccinate their kids, and they end up sick, miserable and occasionally maimed or dead as a result.

[Kurska]

7. Worst of all rich entitled idiots can get their kids the best treatment if they fall ill.

Will it be the same for the poor children their spawn might infect?

[dilby]

8. Maybe it's natures way of balancing the scales.

This could easily solve our over population problem and I am not going to cry for some wealthy family that loses their children because they decided not to vaccinate their children. Seems like it's mostly the wealthy anyways who are going this route so it could be natures way of balancing the world.

[Archae]

9. And Glenn Beck actually literally APPLAUDS these rich assholes!

Seriously!

Glenn Beck Literally Stands Up And Applauds Parents Who Are Refusing To Have Their Children Vaccinated

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 9/18/2014 11:58 am

During yesterday's morning staff meeting, Glenn Beck reacted to a report that vaccination rates in wealthy California neighborhoods have dropped dramatically, resulting in a resurgence of disease like whooping cough and measles, by literally standing up and applauding parents who are refusing to have their children vaccinated. "I think that there is a lot of be said for being cautious on what we are jamming into our children's arms by law, all the time," Beck said, insisting that he is not against all vaccinations but simply objects to the arrogance of doctors and the government telling people they must get vaccinated.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-beck-literally-stands-and-applauds-parents-who-are-refusing-have-their-children-vaccin#sthash.h9CyzGGb.dpuf

[Gothmog]

10. Anti-Vaxers are idiots

These people are causing measles and other diseases to reappear.