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MindPilot

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39. I like the cut of your hyperbole.

Sun Jan 25, 2015, 12:30 PM

Jan 2015

I come from the generation that went from watching our school chums get all messed up from polio to simply not having to think about it. There was no question; on regular occasions we filed out of our classrooms to line up for vaccinations.

I have a newspaper from late December, 1962 in which an article covers the news that San Diego County just finished its first full year with no new reported cases of polio. So yeah, vaccinations work.

I can see this setting up a situation where one's vaccination history is something else you have carry with you. Going to Comic-Con? In addition to your pass, you'll need a picture ID and current shot record. As much as I loathe the prospect of yet more intrusion into my personal life, people need to be compliant on the public health issues. So if some level of ostracizing and humiliation is necessary to do that, so be it.

No shirt? No shoes? No vax? No service.

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My personal opinion about anti-Vaxxers. [View all] MohRokTah Jan 2015 OP

We need to repeal the waiver in California. RandySF Jan 2015 #1

That's pretty harsh, though I sure understand where you're coming from. CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2015 #2

Where disease is concerned, anti-social behavior requires enforced anti-social living. MohRokTah Jan 2015 #6

the most dangerous part of vaccinations is probably the drive to the doctor nt msongs Jan 2015 #3

Yes, agreed Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #9

Sound like a GOPNRAteahadist's paradise. onehandle Jan 2015 #4

So you believe being anti-social should come with no consequences? MohRokTah Jan 2015 #8

When my daughter started school brer cat Jan 2015 #5

It is good for children to prevent as many illnesses as possible. Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #7

Adults have more complications from these diseases than chidren, too. MohRokTah Jan 2015 #10

Yes and a pregnant woman is exposed to one type of measles and should get the Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #11

And the vaccination is never 100% MohRokTah Jan 2015 #12

True, very true, I would rather take a chance with the vaccine than without. Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #13

Anti-vaxxers are murderers. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #14

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2015 #22

I've come to believe that many of these come from Reddit boards. closeupready Jan 2015 #23

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2015 #25

Oh, yeah - I know a thing or two about the AMA, let me tell you. Lots of dirty tricks closeupready Jan 2015 #30

Hope you got a chance to say goodbye to LibraryGirl. geek tragedy Jan 2015 #33

Do you hear people talk about how vaccines are a corporate conspiracy geek tragedy Jan 2015 #32

Or we could put them in barbed wire encircled camps with armed guards in towers overlooking them. GoneFishin Jan 2015 #15

Yes, they are willfully exposing their own children treestar Jan 2015 #16

I have a problem with it: they are not abiding by a social construct. Raine1967 Jan 2015 #17

You have no problem with it but they should be punished harshly melman Jan 2015 #18

Everybody is free to become a hermit MohRokTah Jan 2015 #20

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2015 #19

IF you are so anti-social as to refuse vaccination. MohRokTah Jan 2015 #21

This thread went well, huh, Moh? closeupready Jan 2015 #24

It showed who the anti-vaxxers were. MohRokTah Jan 2015 #26

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Yep that's why I got polio Kalidurga Jan 2015 #28

It is those with a compromised immune system that vaccinations protect. KitSileya Jan 2015 #29

FYI: Check it out considering the differences in immunization guidelines over geography and time. proverbialwisdom Jan 2015 #31

Holy shit. The doses recommended went from 24 to 71, increased by 45 additional doses. GoneFishin Jan 2015 #34

Actually, most of the info cited comes Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2015 #36

If this data is factually wrong tell me precisely how. I don't care what site the information GoneFishin Jan 2015 #37

Flu vaccines have always been recommended. Even in 1983. Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2015 #43

So you post a list of vaccination schedules? Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2015 #35

Amen!!!! (borrowing a word from religion) etherealtruth Jan 2015 #38

No, in fact, the flu shot is MANDATED in many places (eg. NJ, NYC) for preschool enrollment. proverbialwisdom Jan 2015 #48

Everytime you post an age of autism link Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2015 #49

Oh noes! A long list of scary shots! NickB79 Jan 2015 #47

I like the cut of your hyperbole. MindPilot Jan 2015 #39

..or they can go live in colonies like the Hutterites Algernon Moncrieff Jan 2015 #40

Dumb question here MiniMe Jan 2015 #41

The last reported case of smallpox happened in Somalia on October 26, 1977. MohRokTah Jan 2015 #42

Thanks. I was discussing vacs with some friends this weekend, and we were having a hard time coming MiniMe Jan 2015 #44

I was vaccinated for smallpox as a child in the 60s. MohRokTah Jan 2015 #45

This is excellent Swiftian satire of the anti-anti-vaxxer crowd aikoaiko Jan 2015 #46