Originally Posted by GenuineRisk (Post 1014271)

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk (Post 1014271)

Originally Posted by Gaelic Storm (Post 1014333)

As a father of a little girl with autism I was about to get very angry. Now I am laughing. Good job.

Originally Posted by Crown@club (Post 1014559)

Been waiting for a cancer vaccine, but once we get it, how many would refuse to take it?

30%? 40%? 50%?

Originally Posted by Crown@club (Post 1014559)

Been waiting for a cancer vaccine, but once we get it, how many would refuse to take it?

30%? 40%? 50%?

Originally Posted by Crown@club (Post 1014559)

Been waiting for a cancer vaccine, but once we get it, how many would refuse to take it?

30%? 40%? 50%?

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk (Post 1014591)

Dell, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. That stinks.

F*ck cancer.

Originally Posted by dellinger63 (Post 1014605)

When I saw him the day he got home it was apparent it was going to be days and not months. At least he got to spend his last two days on earth at home, looking out at the forest that served as his backyard, surrounded by family and friends including his best friend Lulu, his dog, who he hadn't seen in 6 weeks. And somehow it felt more like a coming home party rather than funeral or wake

Originally Posted by Pants II (Post 1014613)

And the funniest part about all of this is that a stunning percentage of anti-vaccine people are hardcore hipsters/liberals.

Originally Posted by Cardus (Post 1014637)

The none of your "god-damned business" argument does not always cut it.

I happened to come across a well-reasoned portion of John Podhoretz' nationally syndicated column, with which I agree:

"The diseases for which we immunize babies and toddlers are airborne or communicated by casual contact.

Now, it’s true that keeping a proper balance between the rights of individuals and families in the private sphere and the obligations placed upon us as parts of a national whole is a core issue in a self-governing society like the United States.

The problem is that vaccination is the worst possible issue to stake a claim for the private sphere, because the only way societies can stamp out infectious diseases for which vaccines have been discovered is to insist that everybody get them.

This is the concept of “herd immunity”: No vaccine offers perfect protection, but if everyone is vaccinated, the few isolated cases won’t spread — and all cases will become exceedingly rare.

Thus, your supposed “right” not to vaccinate your child actually impinges on my child’s right to the promise in the Declaration of Independence of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

If my infant hasn’t yet been immunized and gets measles or mumps or whooping cough from your toddler, whom you chose not to immunize, he has been placed at unnecessary risk of loss of life.

You’d only choose not to immunize your child because you thought the risk to your child outweighed the possible good.

But in doing so, you’d be committing an act of thievery of a kind — stealing the herd immunity of others to secure the health of your child without doing a thing to extend it to others."