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longship

(40,416 posts)
5. Except for where they aren't!
Tue Jul 3, 2012, 09:52 PM
Jul 2012

Like some areas of Oregon, Arizona, California, etc. where people like Jenny "I pick my boogers on MTV" McCarthy hold sway. It takes about 90% or more vaccinated in a population to provide herd immunity, depending on the infection.

If the population listens to idiots like McCarthy and her brain dead followers, we will lose that herd immunity. Then, some dude will bring polio, or some other disease via an international flight and a community will suffer the consequences of a disease which we have not seen for over a generation.

The anti-vaccination community has a body count. Their bullshit kills people, many children, every day. Fuck Jenny McCarthy.
Fuck Meryl Dorey! Fuck Andrew "No longer a doctor in Britain so I'll go to the US to peddle my quackery" Wakefield.

Fuck them all. Their harm is unmeasurable.

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