It’s not easy being a parent. On the one hand, a buxom, C-list television personality, backed both by anecdotal experience and fraudulent/discredited research, is telling you that vaccines absoposilutely cause autism. Scary. But on the other hand, Washington state’s embarrassingly low vaccination rate is actually killing babies:
Very young infants in our state are getting pertussis (whooping cough) at much higher rates than people of other ages. The rate of whooping cough in babies is nearly 10 times greater than the combined rate of all people of all ages in Washington. Already this year, 58 infants younger than one year old have been diagnosed with whooping cough. Twenty-two of them were hospitalized, including two that died. Of the 22 babies who were hospitalized, 18 were three months old or younger.
“Whooping cough is a serious illness, especially for babies who are too young to be vaccinated,” said State Health Officer and pediatrician Dr. Maxine Hayes. “Older kids and adults can help protect babies by getting the pertussis vaccine.”
Who to trust? Jenny McCarthy? Or reality?
See, here’s the deal. Infants younger than two months of age can’t be vaccinated for highly contagious pertussis. Yet up to 90 percent of them who are exposed to an infected person will catch the disease. And some of them will die.
That’s why our public health strategy is to vaccinate everybody who can be vaccinated, so that our most vulnerable are protected by herd immunity.
Refusing to vaccinate your children doesn’t just put your own babies at risk, it endangers all of them. So don’t be stupid. And don’t be a baby killer. Vaccinate your kids.
@103 Certainly sounded like you did and also another guy earlier in the thread made some interesting threats. Ok, enjoy your fantasies!
#3 & #9 How sick that you would threaten peoples lives because of your dipsh!t beliefs and praises in medical science. The same medical science that claimed for years Tylenol was perfectly harmless. Have you ever looked at the lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies? I think if you have any children in your household you should be investigated because your threats to commit murder don’t sound sane at all. I’m glad i didn’t have a crazy mother like your children obviously do. Vaccinations are the least of their worries, unless there is a vaccination for the crazy they might catch from you.
#21 I couldn’t have said it better myself. Like #34 I completely agree.
What a waste of time it was for me to read such utter nonsense. Both the story and the comments. Extremist Liberals, like Goldy, are looking more insane with each vaccination story they write. “Baby Killers?” seriously do you support abortion?
Herd Immunity? More like Herd Stupidity.
@81 You didn’t ‘lose all credibility’ as the arrogant, yet idiotic, pussycat has claimed. That’s just her way of saying: oh sh!t, you got me. Thanks for the link.
@105: While I’m all for taking what big pharma says with a hefty grain of salt, the science is entirely in favor of vaccination. This isn’t a few companies touting their wares; this is independent, peer-reviewed, eminently-qualified scientists concluding that yes, it is far better for people to be vaccinated against common diseases.
@106: In fairness, sgt_doom doesn’t have any credibility to lose.
@107 I’ll trust sgt_dooms politics any day before I’ll believe your sycophantic angling. In vaccines you may have a point though.
@103 …. flawed logic, or just a nasty litigious nature? which is it?
if “those who by their choices might someday risk our lives via disease/selfishness & stupidity” were made to be illegal, then
people having unprotected sex
actors who show up to work with a cold
federal politicians
lab workers at glaxosmithkline
condoms that break
several thousand workers at CDC and universities across the globe
dishwashers with unhealed cuts
serial killers who reproduce
gay men at bathhouses
lazy or undertrained hospital staff (e.g. the nurse at VM who put cleaning fluid in an IV once)
a few select school nurses
airlines with close quarters and recirculated air
….might all be jailed.
sigh. The selfish stupidity lies in those that bemoan those who are making a different choice than them (about what gets put in their kids body) WHILE also refusing to take simple precautions to keep their own EXTREMELY vunerable members of our society out of harm’s way, in very simple ways. It just smacks of controlfreak/hypocrit: “do it my way, because my way makes me happy. but fuck your way and your happiness. why? ’cause it’s not mine”. Herd = homogeny. You fail at America/diversity.
[ see also the article online about the couple that got lost in a corn maze this week – and freaked out and begged 911 to rescue them because it was dark/getting cold and they’d brought their THREE WEEK old newborn along… more fools who expected the larger society to bail them out because THEY wanted their happiness despite common sense]
@108: Dude, have you READ the shit that Sarge posts?
“Herp SAYS he’s in favor of Durrhurr, but his great-nephew twice removed is Derp, who used to work for HurrCorp, and HurrCorp is just a spin-off of InterDurr, which opposes Durrhurr, so CLEARLY we can’t trust Herp one inch. NEVER FORGIVE WALL STREET FAT CATS NEVER FORGET ANAONMOUSE ARE LEEGON LOL.”
Also: KBTC / frontline is on air right now with a good ‘fair/balanced’ story episode’ the vaccine war’ – YAY PUBLIC TV!