Measles has been spreading in Utah for nearly a year, straining hospitals, schools, and parents. The state’s outbreak provides a glimpse into a new era in America’s health, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
The whole “movement” should have been treated as a risk to public safety from the start. Only the antivaxxers ever thought it was just a “personal choice”, because they’re the ones too stupid to understand the issue in the first place.
Don’t want to vaccinate your kids? Keep them the hell out of public then, and yourself included. Oh, you think that sounds oppressive? How about putting other people at unnecessary risk because your dumb ass thinks they know more than decades of medical science?
There is serious danger in the Dunning-Kruger effect which is strongly exacerbated by the existence of the internet. This is one example where it can and has literally lead to the loss of innocent life. It was never worth it to allow some insecure helicopter parents with chips on their shoulders to pretend their parental instincts meant more than the lives of others. We hand down consequences for folks who endanger public health in other areas all the time.
The whole “movement” should have been treated as a risk to public safety from the start. Only the antivaxxers ever thought it was just a “personal choice”, because they’re the ones too stupid to understand the issue in the first place.
Don’t want to vaccinate your kids? Keep them the hell out of public then, and yourself included. Oh, you think that sounds oppressive? How about putting other people at unnecessary risk because your dumb ass thinks they know more than decades of medical science?
There is serious danger in the Dunning-Kruger effect which is strongly exacerbated by the existence of the internet. This is one example where it can and has literally lead to the loss of innocent life. It was never worth it to allow some insecure helicopter parents with chips on their shoulders to pretend their parental instincts meant more than the lives of others. We hand down consequences for folks who endanger public health in other areas all the time.