#antivacc

[thecynicalhippie-blog]

Seriously, pro-life anti-vaccs pretty much:

"BUT what's the point of bodily autonomy IF YOU CAN'T RISK THE COMMUNITY AROUND YOU BY NOT VACCINATING, OR IF YOU CAN'T SMOKE IN FRONT OF YOUR KIDS? HUH, YOU HYPOCRITES?!" *smh* These are the same people who conviniently argue that forced blood/organ donations shouldn't be a thing, because at "least" you're not "directly" killing anyone.

[pandaman27]

The anti-vaccine crowd are a tribe of witless prattlers who think that, just because they’ve pissed around on Google for a few days, they know more than experts with decades of real-world experience. They are so stupid that they don’t even know that they’re stupid, and talking sense to them is like showing a card trick to a fucking dog. They’re not smart, they’re not mavericks, they don’t even have a decent grasp of basic logic (as evidenced by their persistent refusal to grasp that correlation does not necessarily equal causation). They’re just a bunch of panicky dullards who’ve been duped by scaremongering quacks like Joe Mercola and Andrew Wakefield and are too arrogant to admit they got scammed. The anti-vaccine crowd is anti-vaccine because they WANT to be, not because that’s where the evidence leads. They want to think they’re smarter than everyone else because they sneer in the face of authority (a phase most if us grew out of in our teens). They make insane, ridiculous demands of vaccines that they would never dream of making of any other product. Cars crash, but they still drive; bridges collapse, but they still use them; jet planes careen into the fucking ocean , but they still fly their kids on holiday. But when it comes to vaccines, nothing less than an absolutely 100% pitch perfect, utterly, unblemished and completely unimpeachable safety record will do. This, despite the fact that vaccination is infinitely safer than driving a car, and even flying. Hundreds of millions of people are vaccinated the world over without incident, but the anti-vax crowd don’t care. Debilitating diseases are making a comeback thanks to them, and they don’t care. Children who rely on adults to keep them safe are sickening and even sometimes dying because of their pig-ignorance and bullheaded stupidity and they don’t care. And centuries if scientific progress – progress which should have sent measles, pertussis, and polio the way of smallpox right now – are being rolled back, all because THEY’RE too fucking haughty to listen to the experts. No, they’d rather get their medical information from discredited quacks and dirt-stupid celebrities who wouldn’t know a lymphocyte from a fucking pop-tart. Fuck these people and their arrogance. What they do is nothing less than simple child-endangerment and there’s no need to tap-dance around calling it anything else.

http://violentmetaphors.com/2014/03/25/parents-you-are-being-lied-to/