Anti-Vaccine Activists Spark a State’s Worst Measles Outbreak in Decades

When are people going to give up this argument about the correlation between vaccines and autism....sigh

 

Can all the anti-vaxxers just agree to live on an island together?

 

Vaccines are just fake news. My neighbor dropped out of high school so that he could help his dad at the factory, and he assures me scientists are just in on a conspiracy. Damn libruls.

 

One thing in the article I don't want being missed is, the anti-vaccine groups responsible for this had invited the one and only Andrew "worthless human garbage fuckface" Wakefield to speak to the newly scared and misinformed community. Following the outbreak, he had this to say:

He unequivocally deserved to be horribly murdered.

 

All of this stuff really started becoming a big deal a few years ago right after our daughter was born, and my wife and I assumed it would die down. 4 years and another child later, it's gotten worse and people still fail to see the facts and logic and it's become much more of an endangerment. I'm baffled by how hard people are still pushing this shit.

 

It's true - there's this odd perception of responsibility that's taking over culture, and using this example, there are too many people who fear the sense of responsibility they'd feel if they vaccinate their child and they happen to (coincidentally) have a condition later, but they perceive less responsibility if they choose not to vaccinate their child at all and they get sick from the very thing the vaccine prevents.