Oregonian, here. Yeah, we’ve got our loonies on this issue. Bunch of people convinced that the MMR vaccine causes autism because of that murderous fucker Andrew Wakefield.
Let’s not forget to thank Oprah Winfrey for platforming Playboy centerfold/medical doctor Jenny McCarthy and her anti-vax nonsense in the 2000s also.
You’re thinking too small. Anti-vaxx is literally a billion dollar industry, held up not only by the grifters and snake oil sellers, famous or not, but also social media and tech companies, and even members and or funders of our governments:
Antivaxxers love to class themselves as small fish going against big pharma.
Any exemptions that aren’t medical should be illegal. This is literally the most contagious disease on the planet and it kills kids. If kids are going to go to crowded places together, like schools, they should be required to be vaccinated against measles.
And the other shoe is to hold the parents accountable.
No medical reason for exemption and little Johnny just got his class sick?
I dunno, you lose your right to vote or something. Or you have to be someone’s butler.
Absolutely. And it should be considered manslaughter + neglect if a child dies because some parents refused to vaccinate.
Yes, but my spaghetti sky God says that vaccines make marinara taste bad so my reptilian brain is scared. What can I dooooo
This really is the simplest solution.
Also, the government can’t really do a lot about it because of free speech laws, but like Google and Facebook and so on that gleefully spread anti-vax nonsense should be held accountable. Youtube could just refuse to host anti-vax videos. But I guess all they care about is money, and not enough people are angry enough to start hanging directors and c-suites yet.
Stop blaming vaccines! It’s clearly caused by insufficient prayer!
Ever since I started drinking Holy water twice a day I’ve been feeling so much more hydrated. Explain that science!
The tragedy here is that these idiots are hurting kids. Like, hey, if you’re a grown ass adult who’s afraid of microchips, don’t get vaxxed, I hope you catch whatever it is and fucking die. But doing this to your child is abuse.
Really hoping that this outbreak can knock some sense into these idiots.
Unfortunately that’s not likely because it’s hard to cure selfish dipshit diaease.
