I've Got Whooping Cough. Thanks a Lot, Jenny McCarthy.

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38. Small oversight...

"If you know there's whooping cough in your area, get a booster shot!"

This requires there to first be an outbreak. You can't know about an outbreak before it happens, so telling all the people infected in the outbreak that they should have known they would be the outbreak and gotten booster shots in advance would be... silly.

Yes, after there'a an outbreak people in the are should take additional precautions, but a fat lot of good that does the initial infected group.

The article writer does not make it clear at what point in any outbreak they were infected. Or if they got it while travelling perhaps. If they were part of the first group in their area infected, or got it travelling through an area they weren't aware an outbreak had occurred in, the booster shot criticism doesn't really apply to them does it?


Let's not shift blame from the anti-vax idiots who are causing this mess.

(And not, that doesn't apply to the people who have legitimate medical reasons their kids couldn't get any given vaccine. Those few isolated people don't cause an issue for maintaining herd immunity until the idiots pile on withholding the vaccines from their kids for no reason other than random conspiracy-theory fueled paranoia.)