• Pnut@lemm.ee
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    Now, that’s a statistic that conservatives could get behind. Unfortunately it’s not convenient for them. So they won’t.

  • NotAGamer@lemmy.org
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    Not vaccinating your kids is child abuse and she be prosecuted as such including losing your kids.

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        I get that these kids were born with measles because their mothers weren’t vaccinated but that doesn’t change my statement. The mothers should have been vaccinated when they were kids. Still child abuse.

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    Why are there people old enough to be mothers who are unvaccinated? I thought it was just people whose brains were addled by the pandemic not vaccinating their kids.

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      I remember being a young adult (I’m 38 now) and hearing about anti-vaxxing in the media. In the early -mid 2000s Jenny McCarthy and I think a few other celebrities were on the “vaccines cause autism” train.

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      Because we are old. Wasn’t the Andrew Wakefield nonsense paper from 1989? Oops no, it was 1998.

      Unrelated, beginning of his Wikipedia entry is to die for:

      Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956[4][5][a]) is a British fraudster, anti-vaccine activist, and disgraced former physician. He was struck off the medical register for “serious professional misconduct”[8] due to his involvement in the fraudulent 1998 Lancet MMR autism study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.

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        Because we are old. Wasn’t the Andrew Wakefield nonsense paper from 1989? Oops no, it was 1998.

        Yup, and 1998 was 27 years ago, that’s a perfectly reasonable age for motherhood. My kids were born when I was younger than that.

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      A kid I went who was in my Elementary class had a parent or parents who were antivax, among other things. I was left I am now somewhere in my late 30’s.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Imagine a standard zombie apocalypse movie. Someone comes up with a vaccine, but instead of the ending showing helicopters and planes transporting them, happy people leaving ships, people cheering in camps and getting mass-vaccinated, a new war just starts. Armed antivaxxers destroying labs, produced vaccines and vaccination centers, and the entire humanity just fucking dies.

      THE END

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      Or stop it after it starts. 🤷

      Edit: was a LoU reference, she got her super power by being infected at birth.