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I wish. I'm fully vaccinated but my immune system is so completely hosed from illness and heavy medications and such that I'll probably die of measles anyway if I'm exposed. There's been cases in my city in the past week and I'm really honestly afraid.
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Picnic Princess posted:I wish. I'm fully vaccinated but my immune system is so completely hosed from illness and heavy medications and such that I'll probably die of measles anyway if I'm exposed. There's been cases in my city in the past week and I'm really honestly afraid. Maybe you should start to live in a bubble
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Mar 21, 2019 19:06
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Who knew that the solution the Fermi Paradox and theories about the Great Filter is mommy blogs.
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Mar 21, 2019 19:06
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You know, even serious side effects to chicken pox aside, chicken pox loving sucks. I think a lot of people got chicken pox young enough that they don't really remember it, and in general, the younger you are the milder it is. I was five, and I had it [i]bad/i]. It was a week of anti-itch baths and calamine lotion and DON'T SCRATCH. I had blisters in unmentionable places. I cannot stand the smell of instant oatmeal to this day, thirty years later, because it smells like the oatmeal baths my mother made me take for the brief, brief relief. Instant oatmeal smells like misery and sickness to me. My mother somehow had chicken pox twice, once as a child and once as an adult. Chicken pox is a herpes virus, and like other herpes viruses it reproduces by inserting its genetic material into the DNA of the cell its infected, so when that cell (and all daughter cells) divide, it copies the viral DNA along with it, causing a spread of viral DNA lying dormant in your body for forty, fifty, sixty years, until suddenly the time bomb goes off because your immune system is weakening and now you have shingles and if it's in the wrong spot and/or you're too slow getting to a doctor, you lose a goddamn eye to it or something. It's awful and miserable and even if it's a "relatively mild disease," why would you make your kids go through that if they don't have to
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Mar 21, 2019 19:35
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zoux posted:Who knew that the solution the Fermi Paradox and theories about the Great Filter is mommy blogs. Firmly believe the internet is a no-joke net negative for the species. We cannot trust most people with the task of building their own reality, which is what the web has enabled. The positive effects of this are genuinely good, allowing small chunks of the population with similar issues to band together in ways that would've been difficult to impossible previously. But the negative effects are probably literally going to kill most of us, not just talking about antivax, of course. Someone above said a plague would fix this, but it would likely make it worse. They would continue to invent their own reality and blame the plague on vaccines, or say the medical community invented it to discredit antivax, , govt did it, false flag, etc. Anything and everything would be said/written/thought to protect themselves from the ultimate harm: having believed strongly, and been wrong. A plague that killed antivaxxers kids would not snap them out. We would need a plague to kill the antivaxxers themselves.
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Mar 21, 2019 19:50
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The Munchausen by Proxy speech in True Detective springs to mind
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Mar 21, 2019 19:53
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Anti-vaxxer jokes are the moral equivalent to dead baby jokes and people who insist on making them are just trying to justify being a 13 year old Newgrounds style shitbag.
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Mar 21, 2019 19:55
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Source your quotes.
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Mar 21, 2019 19:56
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Aren’t anti vaxxer jokes literally dead baby jokes?
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Mar 21, 2019 19:57
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Anti-vaxxer jokes are the moral equivalent to dead baby jokes and people who insist on making them are just trying to justify being a 13 year old Newgrounds style shitbag. Much like their children, anti-vax jokes never get old.
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Mar 21, 2019 19:57
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CharlestheHammer posted:Aren’t anti vaxxer jokes literally dead baby jokes? They wouldn't be if antivaxxers were right
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Mar 21, 2019 19:59
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I remember getting the chickenpox vaccine when apparently it was relatively new, and the doctor saying "we think this is about 60% effective." My older brother went to a concert and got it, spreading it to my older sister when she was back from college on Christmas break because they weren't vaccinated. On a long drive home from my grandparents, I sat in a small car with both of them and didnt get infected. Vaccines own.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:14
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Edit: nope, mom says I was vaccinated and it didn't apparently work. Anyway I got chicken pox twice-- once as a baby, then a second time in 7th grade. The first place it showed up was my crotch, which was horribly painful, and I was sick for weeks. I can't wait to get shingles! Anyone forcing their kid to go through preventable diseases should have their kid taken away. gently caress that. E: and we do need to stop being kind to parents that lose a kid because they refused to vaccinate. Shame the gently caress out of them. Scathach has a new favorite as of 20:22 on Mar 21, 2019 |
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Mar 21, 2019 20:19
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the problem is that vaccines are so effective that they've erased what the terrible diseases they protect from from the public conscious. I'm pretty sure that even if vaccines did cause autism at a .001% chance or whatever (they don't) it would still be totally worth it compared to, you know, dying in an iron lung with all your limbs crippled and rotting or whatever horrible poo poo our great grandparents had to deal with.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:26
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Scathach posted:Edit: nope, mom says I was vaccinated and it didn't apparently work. I got chickenpox fairly young, and then shingles in 2nd or 3rd grade. Which means I’m basically guaranteed to get shingles at some point again, which only get worse with age. Yayyy...
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Mar 21, 2019 20:29
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What's the oldest you could generally be diagnosed with autism? Why can't the anti-vaxxers at least get to that point and then vaxinate if the possibility (which is bullshit, obvious) is then reduced to essentially 0. It's because they're idiots I know, but jeez... they could at least meet in the middle.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:29
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Wait'll they come up with a vaccine against autism <mr_burns_diseases_door.gif>
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Mar 21, 2019 20:31
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Because then they'd say vaccines cause something else, like Alzheimer's. They'll move the goalposts because they're absolutely insane and stupid as gently caress.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:32
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New Wave Jose posted:Maybe you should start to live in a bubble I did for 2 months when I was too sick to do anything, but now I'm broke and not dying so back to work I go. I got chicken pox at 13 and it was nasty. Nasty. I had them on my eyeballs and inside my mouth and throat. The vaccine didn't exist back then. I even went to pox parties where my mom exposed me to sick kids so I could get it when I was younger when it wasn't as bad, but it didn't work when I was in my single digit age.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:33
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EL BROMANCE posted:What's the oldest you could generally be diagnosed with autism? Why can't the anti-vaxxers at least get to that point and then vaxinate if the possibility (which is bullshit, obvious) is then reduced to essentially 0. It's because they're idiots I know, but jeez... they could at least meet in the middle. Amy Schumer's husband just got diagnosed at like 30 or 40 or something. There's technically no cap.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:34
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CharlestheHammer posted:Aren’t anti vaxxer jokes literally dead baby jokes? yes. that's my point. they are morally equivalent.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:36
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It's easier to detect early due to it generally having slow development regarding walking or talking as a symptom compared to the more vague symptoms as a person grows.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:37
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Actally, Anti vax jokes are morally equivalent to dumb parent jokes.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:43
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Hihohe posted:Actally, Anti vax jokes are morally equivalent to dumb parent jokes. No they’re not. If anything the problem is that antivaxxers won’t shut the gently caress up, not that they’re completely silent.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:48
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Picnic Princess posted:I wish. I'm fully vaccinated but my immune system is so completely hosed from illness and heavy medications and such that I'll probably die of measles anyway if I'm exposed. There's been cases in my city in the past week and I'm really honestly afraid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCOpjr9Rzw
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Arivia posted:No they’re not. If anything the problem is that antivaxxers won’t shut the gently caress up, not that they’re completely silent. 
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Mar 21, 2019 20:58
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in THIS house we BELIEVE in MAHOMNAD
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This was one of the better responses I've found to Anti-Vaxx. The fact that your kid might survive a childhood illness does not mean you shouldn't vaccinate. Content: 
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Mar 21, 2019 21:28
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MAHO MAHOMNAD I want to be a MAHOMNAD
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I nearly lost my job today because of an antivaxxer. She called to change her doctor to someone who "wouldn't shame her for her beliefs" regarding vaccination, and the whole time I had to bite back my rage while she went on about lead in vaccines and autism and bodily autonomy. If I replied the way I wanted, I would have been fired. So I assigned her a new doctor and wished her a good day. I was polite, professional, and possibly complicit in the death of a child.
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Mar 21, 2019 21:34
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OH NO POLYSORBATE 80 & 20  VACCINES CONTAIN DIHYDROGEN loving MONOXIDE
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 OMG CHEMICALS IN MY BABY Dr's offices need posters like this so all the anti-vax people feel extra stupid  Yesterday my local newspaper had an article about spring cleaning and getting toxins out of your house. It was written by some dumbass naturopath and full of ridiculous advice. I can't believe they even put it in the paper.
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Obviously anti vaccination movements are dangerous and stupid but the ubiquity of boring dunks on them literally everywhere on the internet is irritating as hell Anti antivaxx image macros are like catnip on Reddit for thousands of people to feel smug about their rationality and smarts in between posting about how women need to make less money and Stephen Pinker is the only one who understands capitalism and it’s virtue and it seems like it’s an easy touchstone for idiots to feel validated
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christmas boots posted:I think we also need to less kind to parents who lose children because of this. I’m talking legal consequences and heavy social shaming. You feel bad? Well good, because you’re the reason that child is dead. Live with that loving guilt the rest of your life, and don’t ever forget it. It's no different than those people who try to pray away their kids diabetes. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1583169/Diabetic-girl-dies-as-parents-pray-instead-of-calling-for-medical-aid.html
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Mar 21, 2019 22:23
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Len posted:It's no different than those people who try to pray away their kids diabetes. quote:Police are now preparing a report for prosecutors. However, legal action against the parents may be prevented by a Wisconsin state statute against failing to act to protect children from bodily harm. Wow it's like they couldn't be shittier if they tried. And a disgusted lol at the law in question.
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I'm not a crazy religious person and once the angels sound their trumpets and God casts the sinners into Hell while opening the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN for us true believers you're going to regret your narrow-minded prejudices. I want to ask people like this if they think God is pleased with how they're using the brain He provided.
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If you want to do Athiest Inquisitions just know that no matter how compelling your arguments and ironclad your logic, it will end with the person saying "Look it's a matter of faith" and you lose.
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ChaseSP posted:It's easier to detect early due to it generally having slow development regarding walking or talking as a symptom compared to the more vague symptoms as a person grows. It's especially stupid as autism diagnoses have really only gone up because we started looking for it. Most autistic people are high functioning and just kind of awkward or face blind or whatever. They also have a tendency to make good engineers so why would we want to cure autism? The totally crippling autism that anti-vaxxers are terrified of is actually pretty rare.
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zoux posted:If you want to do Athiest Inquisitions just know that no matter how compelling your arguments and ironclad your logic, it will end with the person saying "Look it's a matter of faith" and you lose. I’m reminded of that old joke about the flood and the guy on the roof where people keep coming by to save him and he says he trusts that God will do it and then he does and God was like I sent a half a dozen loving you dumb poo poo, Christ almighty and then Jesus is like what and Gods like no not you and then the guy tries to turn it into a whos on first bit even though it’s not really like that and finally god has enough of his poo poo and sends him to hell where he reads my posts for eternity.
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Frog Act posted:Obviously anti vaccination movements are dangerous and stupid but the ubiquity of boring dunks on them literally everywhere on the internet is irritating as hell this. this is why i'm actually upset. it's the Rick & Morty of memes: stupid, low-hanging, incredibly obvious poo poo. you just find/replace "dead baby" with "antivax baby" and it's the same goddamn bullshit.
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