The anti-vaccination movement, which started as a few people sitting on the fringe, has swelled in numbers, and we're starting to see the effects. Earlier this month, we saw an outbreak of measles. You may remember measles as that disease that you heard about in movies from the 60s but never heard about anyone having because it was all but extinct in the modern era. Yeah, it's back in a big way, and the anti-vaccination movement is entirely to thank for it. Measles, by the by, can in some cases cause encephalitis, a deadly disease that causes your brain to overheat and cook itself to death.
Here are my thoughts on the issue:
1) Vaccinations save lives.
2) Not vaccinating your kids is child endangerment in the worst way.
3) Vaccinations do not cause autism. If you think they do, you're a sap who's been sold a big ol' bottle of snake oil.
4) If you'd rather have a dead child than an autistic child, you're kind of an *******.
It's getting to the point that if people aren't going to do the common sense thing of vaccinating their kids out of willful ignorance, we're going to have to make vaccinations legally mandatory. This is too important not to.
Thoughts?
Here are my thoughts on the issue:
1) Vaccinations save lives.
2) Not vaccinating your kids is child endangerment in the worst way.
3) Vaccinations do not cause autism. If you think they do, you're a sap who's been sold a big ol' bottle of snake oil.
4) If you'd rather have a dead child than an autistic child, you're kind of an *******.
It's getting to the point that if people aren't going to do the common sense thing of vaccinating their kids out of willful ignorance, we're going to have to make vaccinations legally mandatory. This is too important not to.
Thoughts?
