I love how the title and thumbnail lure in the anti-vaxxers.
I wish I could see their reaction when he reveals what the “side effects” are.
I don’t think you can make risk analysis any simpler than this video.
Vaccinating your kids is like putting a seatbelt on their immune system.
Not vaccinating them is like saying, “Well, they might get a seatbelt injury if they are in a crash!“
Which is true. But a seatbelt injury is better than the death that comes from not wearing one.
Tag: vaccination
So, I looked in the comments, expecting to see discourse or historical background etc, but I found none. Therefore, I decided to learn more and add background. Apparently this machine was used because of polio because polio paralyzes your lungs. According to the wiki article on this bad boy, patients would spend two weeks in there sometimes. They still have these machines, though much, much more modern but they’re barely used at all anymore: “In 1959, there were 1,200 people using tank respirators in the United States, but by 2004 there were only 39. By 2014, there were only 10 people left with an iron lung.” (x)
I’ve read about one man who still lives in an iron lung. He taught himself how to breathe again by gulping down air, but it’s quite laborious because of the paralysis. His name is Paul Alexander, and he’s a lawyer. He’s 71 years old and has spent 65 years in an iron lung. Wild, right? He’s been working on a memoir that he was inspired to write by the recent resurgence of cases of polio caused by anti-vaccers.
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4414081 (can’t hyperlink because I’m on mobile, apologies)
It’s amazing to me to recognize that we only defeated polio in this past century – that my mother’s father had it (he got lucky, it only deformed his feet and thereby kept him out of a couple wars); my mother got the big vaccination that left her upper arm scarred; and by the time I was vaccinated, polio basically didn’t exist. My grandfather must have been born like around 1900, so – in the space of less than 75 years, this was no longer something that parents dreaded the possibility of every summer.
Polio still thrives in a lot of countries, including India. I watched a documentary about it Netflix. The disease runs rampant in well-developed countries, and with more people traveling around the world there is more exposure to this and many other diseases. When polio survivors in India were interviewed and asked about the anti-vaccination movement in the USA they had this look of total disgust and shock. Idiot anti-vaxxers are placing a death sentence on their children, would rather they die or have permanent scars and disabilities, would rather listen to lies about vaccinations causing autism.
We had a big round of whooping cough tear through this tiny town I live in. Children DIED because they were too young for the vaccination. The people who caused this, the carriers, are anti-vaxxers. No idea what happened to them. One child died because the coughing broke a rib and damaged their lungs.
Some polio survivors have had to live in an iron lung their entire lives because the vaccination wasn’t readily available. Now the vaccine is and it’s fools and idiots sentencing the most vulnerable to a painful death because of ignorance.
VACCINATE YOUR FUCKING KIDS
i know this isn’t my first time reblogging this post to this blog, and it probably won’t be the last. Stay educated.
Also, immunocompromised members of society (including a number of my family members and friends) don’t deserve to have their lives threatened because of antivaxxers and their “right” to believe lies.
I’ve said it once and I will say it again: Even if the “vaccines cause autism” stuff has a single lick of truth to it (which it does not, At All) AUTISM. IS. NOT. WORSE. THAN. DEATH.
If you think having an autistic child is worse than having a dead, dying, or seriously ill child then please pull your head out of your ass and go apologize to every autistic person ever. Thank you.
Refusing to vaccinate is child abuse. Well intentioned though it may be, refusing important medical interventions that seriously endanger your children is seriously endangering them no matter the reasoning.
I know it sounds harsh but honestly, if someone thought thrashing their child daily was the only way to make them grow up healthy, we would put a stop to it. For a long time many parents did, and we put a stop to it. This is no different.