But but but it is the conservatives and “climate deniers” who are Anti-Science(tm)
ALISO VIEJO (CBSLA.com) — Parents who have opted against vaccinating their children are standing firm with their decision amid California’s worst measles outbreak in 15 years.
A measles scare shut down Sharp Health Care in La Mesa in San Diego County Wednesday, where six people went to the urgent care unit with rashes and measles-like symptoms.
The clinic’s closure in San Diego is just the latest in a string of measles-related scares since authorities said dozens of people contracted the disease at Disneyland during mid-December.
Parents at an Aliso Viejo park say think their choice to not vaccinate is still the best one.
“Well, I realized, reading through the books and knowing what was inside all these vaccines, I just didn’t feel comfortable putting them into my child,” parent Christy Thompson said.
The outbreak at Disneyland, which has sickened 26 people in three states, is the worst in 15 years, according to state health officials. A significant number of those patients were not vaccinated against the disease, and included children too young for the vaccine.
It should be noted that these are not people with ignorance borne of poverty or lack of education. Aliso Veijo is an upper-middle class neighborhood with median a household income of $98,000.
See, how is this “science” somehow not settled; despite years of successful, duplicable, results? Without need of any hockey sticks, I might add.
I hear they’re now worshiping fire in the toney zip codes of L.A.
Hiya Bob! Good to see you still kicking.
For myself, I can’t get too upset over the anti-Vaxxers. Do I think they’re dumb? Sure. I think the bigger issue is the parents right over their kids though. If you get your kids vaccinated, you got no worries, right?
These days you have people that think the kids should be taken from the parents for letting their ten y.o. go to the park across the street by himself. Also, I refuse to take a flu shot. Never have, and I haven’t had the flu for a coon’s age. I’m just waiting for the day when Obamacare makes it mandatory though. I still won’t take it, fugg’em.
Besides, You wanna know who just as stupid, twice as dangerous, and more responsible for the measles outbreak than even the most rabid anti-vaxxer? The open borders crowd, that’s who.
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Is there a Christian revival starting in France?
That’s because parent Christy Thompson’s never seen a kid sick with measles.
But I’ll bet she sends her kids to public school.
in all of history i bet natural selection’s never been so immediately satisfying
Magical thinking is highly attractive in the realm of health and nutrition. There’s so much we still don’t understand, so much we don’t have control over, so many things we think are helpful end up being harmful.
As one who’s been searching for a diagnosis for 12 years, I fully understand the attraction of simple, non-traditional, counter-intuitive solutions to cut one Goridan knot or another.
Going gluten free can’t hurt anything but your pocketbook, for example; same for all-organic or all-natural eating or vegetarianism or whole grain or low-carb or whatever dietary practice seems prudent to you.
But being anti-vax is hard to understand. Before vaccinations, children died from infectious diseases in droves — putting the lie to “my child’s natural immune system is strong enough.” Vaccination harnesses that natural immune system to do what it’s designed to with considerably fewer fatalities, even to the obliteration of some diseases in some countries.
This is one kind of foolishness that is going to cost us dearly before we wise up. The vaccinations aren’t causing Autism — which might be an auto-immune thing — but the research connecting vaxes to Autism was faked and unable to be reproduced.
As Dennis Prager says, horrible things happen when people believe lies, and this is one of them.
God help us all.