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In reply to the discussion: Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional [View all]3catwoman3
(28,736 posts)19. This is so fucking stupid that I feel like screaming here in my kitchen
"...concerns that some children might die of measles or become paralyzed with polio as a result of a choice not to vaccinate. But, he said, I also am saddened when people die of alcoholic diseases, adding, Freedom of choice and bad health outcomes.
This sounds a hell of a lot like this bukkshit from Charlie Kirk - "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."
Dr. Milhoan is another physician who seems to have taken the Hypocritic Oath rather than the Hippocratic Oath.
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Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Yesterday
OP
Smallpox killed 90% of the population of the Americas when Europeans first arrived
iemanja
Yesterday
#18
While this policy would affect people of all ages, a pundit on CNN last night said something that stuck with me...
EarlG
Yesterday
#2
Ironically it would be MAGA parents causing the deaths of their own children
IronLionZion
20 hrs ago
#37
I'll extend your viewpoint and say that the anti-child extends to all children - white or brown.
erronis
22 hrs ago
#26
unvaccinated children should not be permitted to attend public school. Period.
Greybnk48
Yesterday
#4
A man died recently in his (I think) late 70s who spent his entire life in an iron lung.
dedl67
21 hrs ago
#28
Unfortunately, it will require a major tragic outbreak to convince these morons of the error of their ways
Mysterian
22 hrs ago
#23
Does anyone want to associate with idiots who purposely choose to spread diseases?
mdbl
22 hrs ago
#25
I got vaccinated for polio in grade school in the 1950's when the vaccine first came out.
patphil
21 hrs ago
#29
Jonas Salk was a hero - one of many great persons who graduated City College of New York
dedl67
21 hrs ago
#34
Seems their intentions are to fill up the cemeteries with babies and small children.
SamKnause
21 hrs ago
#31