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In reply to the discussion: Why would your un-vaccinated kids be a threat to my vaccinated kids? [View all]MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)8. I put anti-vaxxers on ignore. Buh bye
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Why would your un-vaccinated kids be a threat to my vaccinated kids? [View all]
Algernon Moncrieff
Jan 2015
OP
I don't think vaccines in general are ineffective. I just don't think this kind of attack is
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#7
They won't be swayed by crap like this, that's for sure. I can only assume there's no desire
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#46
Idiocy rarely needs validation or solidification. Idiots are rarely swayed by science...
LanternWaste
Jan 2015
#158
I don't think that kind of insulting presentation wins over anyone or inoculates anyone.
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#126
I don't think I would ever listen to someone who called children "crotch fruit."
Chemisse
Jan 2015
#11
so that would rule out everyone quoting the king james bible and "fruit of my loins"?
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2015
#93
all words are just 'words' -- and people do get to 'arbitrarily' decide which words are acceptable
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#125
same way "fuck" and "intercourse" refer the same thing. yet one is vulgar, the other clinical.
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#159
Yes, it's vile. I thnk we can assume it's not intended to reach anyone, but to alienate them.
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#22
Umm. I don't find the article neutrally written, nor the researcher particularly credible.
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#47
I understand what you are saying, but this kind of language tends to polarize.
Chemisse
Jan 2015
#31
The only issue I can compare it to in terms of willful ignorance is climate change
Algernon Moncrieff
Jan 2015
#32
Exactly. I wasn't going to get a flu shot because I knew I would probably recover ok if I got
GoneFishin
Jan 2015
#109
But you wouldn't be the person who irritated him into voicing things that way....
Moonwalk
Jan 2015
#110
It may work with some people, and backfire with others. It would not work with me.
GoneFishin
Jan 2015
#116
And once again, with feeling: you are not the one that anyone is trying to convince with this....
Moonwalk
Jan 2015
#139
This isn't to reach them, it is to shame and ridicule them. With good reason.
morningfog
Jan 2015
#142
Good post, sometimes facts need to be stated strongly for some to understand.
Thinkingabout
Jan 2015
#5
Of course, if someone doesn't vaccinate their kids for every other malady under the sun,
truedelphi
Jan 2015
#16
Yes, because being sweet and polite when it comes to these idiots works soooo well.
zappaman
Jan 2015
#30
zappaman has already shown us the only study that matters. multiple times. it PROVES that
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#61
posting that 'study' over and over isn't changing anyone's mind either. and it's ironic you'd claim
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#48
Voltaire and Twain were needlessly insulting to idiots both at home and abroad too.
LanternWaste
Jan 2015
#161
Anti-vaxxers are abusing their children, and other people's children too.
DemocraticWing
Jan 2015
#37
Bereaved mom of a week-old infant interviewed on CNN this past week. Whooping cough.
Hekate
Jan 2015
#45
Not really. Old graveyards are full of stone Angels drooping over little graves.
Hekate
Jan 2015
#75
Our home got tagged for typhoid exposure in 1956, until we all tested clean. Tubercular kids...
Hekate
Jan 2015
#119
and understood the two points: 1) pertussis vaccine was changed about 2000; 2) new vaccine
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#58
so what? that doesn't mean the vaccine is 100% effective, and it doesn't mean that the
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#60
did you read my post, or you just want to talk to yourself? In a study of over 6000 cases,
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#68
And I'm saying that in that CDC study of 6000+ cases, half of those who got whooping cough
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#71
It's not my data; it's from the Centers for Disease Control. I'd say it carries more authority than
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#91
I'd love to see someone post something similar to this, directed at gun owners.
Crunchy Frog
Jan 2015
#82
I have mixed feelings about this message. While I think not vaccinating kids is foolish;
deafskeptic
Jan 2015
#90
Appreciate the good information and your experience. I admire courage like yours a
appalachiablue
Jan 2015
#97
Yes, this is made up of a lot of insults. But I think the point is being missed...
Moonwalk
Jan 2015
#111
Anti-vaxxers are to be shamed and shunned, they are immune to logic and facts.
geek tragedy
Jan 2015
#118
A less coarse version was posted on March 18, 2014 by Diana MacPherson on "Canadian Atheist" website
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#131
Why don't you define your terms? ANS: You cannot without insulting the bulk of the world's people.
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#138
"CDC releases a statement on their web site confirming that the study parameters were changed
GoneFishin
Jan 2015
#143
Thanks. Here's a response to that statement and a 2004 letter written by Dr. Thompson.
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2015
#150
Is there a larger problem regarding autism, i.e. the link to sources of mercury?
AntiFascist
Jan 2015
#156
My fear is that the wrong industry is getting the majority blame for skyrocketing rates of autism...
AntiFascist
Feb 2015
#164
Not when "thousands of parents" report the same sequence, as described by Mary Holland.
proverbialwisdom
Feb 2015
#165