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Measles and mumps would be lower if more people accepted the vaccine.

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Now compare to autism diagnosese…

…and see no correlation.

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Even if there was, I’m much happier being autistic than I would be dead.

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I’d much prefer my children alive and autistic than dead (or debilitatingly disabled) too.

There’s something weird about people who seem to think the other way around.

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You don’t know that

/s?

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Given that the term autism didn’t exist before 1911 it probably wasn’t being diagnosed a whole lot before then. But I would guess it went up as understanding and awareness of it grew, but there were definitely descriptions of people who met the criteria for it long before then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autism

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I was wondering about that as I was furiously typing out my scathing sarcastic bullshit with a shit eating grin on my face.

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22 points

Watch RFK wash it all away.

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Yep. They’re coming back in a big fuckin’ way.

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Antivaxxers: Hold my Ivermectin and watch this…

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Would be neat to see deaths or hospitalizations pre/post visualized this way too to really drive home the point for the “measles weren’t really that bad” crowd.

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