Measles Outbreak.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

I feel like punching Alex Jones right in the fucking face.

The largest U.S. outbreak of measles to occur in 15 years -- affecting 214 children so far -- is likely driven by travelers returning from abroad and by too many unvaccinated U.S. children, according to new research.

The finding could highlight the dangers of a trend among some U.S. parents to skip the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine for their children, out of what many experts call misguided fears over its safety.

Dr. Andrew Pavia, professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah and spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), said, "The good news is that we are seeing introductions of measles that are being contained as small outbreaks."

Pavia credits containment to high levels of vaccination and thevacci rapid response by public health officials. However, if an outbreak occurred in a "really susceptible population the outcome could be very different," he said.

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2011-10-21/Unvaccinated-behind-largest-US-measles-outbreak-in-years/50852098/1

Tinfoilhating around is all fun and games until a little kid is crippled by Polio.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'd fucking laugh, but those kids didn't deserve to ghet sick just because their fucking parents are morons. I'd like to punch each and every one of them in the face. Assholes.

[Kai]

What's the anti-vaccer reaction to this? Do they ignore it, pretending like it didn't happen? Do they say it's god's will? Do they write it off as being an acceptable risk for saving their children from a significantly lower risk?

Not that any of these are good reasons. I just want to know what form of idiocy is driving car.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What's the anti-vaccer reaction to this? Do they ignore it, pretending like it didn't happen? Do they say it's god's will? Do they write it off as being an acceptable risk for saving their children from a significantly lower risk?

Not that any of these are good reasons. I just want to know what form of idiocy is driving car.

Id love to know this, too.

[Jenne]

It's lack of education in the right direction.  No one's sat down and showed them pictures of deformed children who've had a bad case of anything that is taken care of through the MMR vaccine.  If they HAD, then said "don't stick MY child with those needles!" parents would reverse course...immediately.

I have a feeling their reaction to children getting the diseases they don't need to be at risk for is pretty laissez-faire, mainly due to the fact they won't own up to their own idiocy in not preventing it.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

What's the anti-vaccer reaction to this? Do they ignore it, pretending like it didn't happen? Do they say it's god's will? Do they write it off as being an acceptable risk for saving their children from a significantly lower risk?

Not that any of these are good reasons. I just want to know what form of idiocy is driving car.

They are in the comments on the linked article.

[Cain]

What's the anti-vaccer reaction to this? Do they ignore it, pretending like it didn't happen? Do they say it's god's will? Do they write it off as being an acceptable risk for saving their children from a significantly lower risk?

Not that any of these are good reasons. I just want to know what form of idiocy is driving car.

"The fact remains, my child getting measles is better than them getting autism, or dying due to some NWO engineered virus designed to kill us all off."

[Nephew Twiddleton]

What's the anti-vaccer reaction to this? Do they ignore it, pretending like it didn't happen? Do they say it's god's will? Do they write it off as being an acceptable risk for saving their children from a significantly lower risk?

Not that any of these are good reasons. I just want to know what form of idiocy is driving car.

"The fact remains, my child getting measles is better than them getting autism, or dying due to some NWO engineered virus designed to kill us all off."

That's it. I'm siding with the NWO right now just to get rid of stupid fucks like this. Maybe I'll become a high ranking officer in the Antichrist's personal guard. Break out the FEMA coffins and open up the Satanic death camps!

[Lenin McCarthy]

What's the anti-vaccer reaction to this? Do they ignore it, pretending like it didn't happen? Do they say it's god's will? Do they write it off as being an acceptable risk for saving their children from a significantly lower risk?

During the last measles outbreak in Norway, some homeopath claimed that measles is a transformative disease that makes you grow as a person, and that vaccination deprives us of this. She also said that although she thinks measles is good for most children, some may die, but only the ones who are already weak.  

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This is why I hate anti-vaccination people. HATE. LOATHE. DESPISE. Also you know who else? I FUCKING HATE NATUROPATHS. Not all of them; some are quite decent practitioners. But there is a sizable contingent who focus on homeopathic "medicine" and shun medical science to the detriment of their patients, and these are the ones I would gladly burn alive.

[Jenne]

Well, those that want the population to diminish, they should applaud this, as one of the side effects of these diseases is sterlization...

Again, I think the blase attitude would change if someone passed around pictures like how they did in Health class back in the old says--you see a series of syphillitic, pustulant dicks and vages, and you REALLY start to think you don't mind the jimmy-hat so much.

[Phox]

What's the anti-vaccer reaction to this? Do they ignore it, pretending like it didn't happen? Do they say it's god's will? Do they write it off as being an acceptable risk for saving their children from a significantly lower risk?

Not that any of these are good reasons. I just want to know what form of idiocy is driving car.

"The fact remains, my child getting measles is better than them getting autism, or dying due to some NWO engineered virus designed to kill us all off."

That's it. I'm siding with the NWO right now just to get rid of stupid fucks like this. Maybe I'll become a high ranking officer in the Antichrist's personal guard. Break out the FEMA coffins and open up the Satanic death camps!

I'm with you. Let the cleansing begin.

Goddamn it, this is just fucking nauseating....

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy will be along to apologize any moment, I'm sure.

[Suu]

I thought that they ended up finding no connection to the MMR and autism? Apparently I gave the American public too much credit when it comes to reading.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I thought that they ended up finding no connection to the MMR and autism? Apparently I gave the American public too much credit when it comes to reading.

Actually, what they found out was that Wakefield faked his data in the first place.