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Here's a conversation the Rude Pundit had a few years back with then-expectant parents he is close to:
EMother: I'm having serious doubts about getting the baby vaccinated.
RP: What? That's dumb. Vaccinate your fuckin' kid.
EFather: But have you heard about these studies that said mercury in them causes autism?
RP: Fuck that. One bullshit study. Have you heard of small pox lately? No? Vaccinate your fuckin' kid.
EM: I'm not sure.
RP: Did you get all your shots?
EF and EM: Yes.
RP: Did you have a choice?
EF: No.
RP: Vaccinate your fuckin' kid. Or start a colony of people who don't vaccinate and stay the fuck away from everyone else's kids.
EM: You don't have to be an asshole about it. We're just discussing it.
RP: And that's the problem.
Refusing to get your children immunized against measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, whooping cough, hepatitis, diphtheria, fuckin' polio, and other nasty shit is one of the great expressions of bourgeois decadence in the latter days of this dying empire. It is a ludicrous convergence of voodoo-like pseudoscience, worship of individuality, and selfish helicopter parenting. You do not get to have an "opinion" on vaccinations because your failure to act has an effect on everyone else. The science on vaccines is so overwhelmingly in favor of making sure your kids get them that, qualitatively, there is no difference between the anti-vaxxers and climate change denialists.
This is where we stand right now, in 2015:
- The CDC is worried about a large-scale measles outbreak in the United States. In 2000, measles had been thought eradicated from the country. In 2008, there was an outbreak. And now? Over 100 cases. (And, by the way, measles is actually not a disease to be fucked with. It's way worse than some red dots on a cartoon cat's face.)
- 21% of 18-29 year-old Americans think that vaccines might or does cause autism, proving that all those education budget cuts across the country have worked as intended in stupiding people.
- America's angriest deflated ball, Chris Christie, had to walk back comments where he suggested that it was cool if parents didn't inoculate their kids. Meanwhile, President Obama said, more or less, "Vaccinate your fucking kids."
- And we get the parade of pathetic parents, smugly justifying their "choice" not to get their children immunized, like the California mom who "meditated on it a lot" before deciding to forgo shots for her son. When the daughter of another parent said she'd just get the measles shot rather than be forced to stay home from high school during this outbreak, her delusional mother said, "Id rather you miss an entire semester than you get the shot."
- Or the Arizona father who said, "It's not my responsibility to inject my child with chemicals in order for (another child) to be supposedly healthy." Because he wasn't enough of a bastard, he added about a child going through chemotherapy who was susceptible to preventable diseases, "As far as I'm concerned, it's very likely that her leukemia is from vaccinations in the first place." And then, because if you're gonna be a motherfucker, you may as well fuck all the mothers, he said, "It's not my responsibility to be protecting their child." Finally, as if he decided that he was going to be just an irredeemable cunt about everything, he remarked, "It's an unfortunate thing that people die, but people die. I'm not going to put my child at risk to save another child." Remember: the "risk" is getting a few shots that almost everyone gets.
Swear to fuck, if any of these parents who don't vaccinate their kids utter the phrase, "It takes a village," they should be sent to real fuckin' villages, like in areas of Africa. These are places on earth where parents are begging for shots to keep preventable diseases from killing or seriously harming their children.
Those are people lined up in the sun and dirt last year during a war in the Central African Republic so the World Health Organization could immunize their children from measles. The WHO inoculated over 110,000 children in just one month. Those parents didn't give a fuck about a discredited Lancet study or piles of utter bullshit posted on Facebook. They didn't fuckin' meditate on it while worrying about gluten and GMOs. They only knew that their kids have a better chance of staying alive if they get their shots.
You either live in this society or you create one of your own. It's something people on the left and right forget all the time: Your stupidity, your ignorance, your fear is not just your own when others have to suffer for it. Societies are supposed to have unspoken agreements among the people living there. We live in a country where the air is poisoned, the land is fracked to shit, and the water is one chemical spill away from undrinkable. And you think you're protecting your kids by not giving them the one thing that we know for sure works to protect them? It'd be laughable if you weren't fucking with the lives of everyone else.
(Note: The Rude Pundit is still friends with the parents up top, and he loves the hell out of their vaccinated kids.)
(Note 2: Don't send the Rude Pundit all your fuckin' links to all your bullshit websites that prove whatever ignorant point you want to make about the "dangers" of vaccines.)
(Note 3: Yeah, the Rude Pundit knows lots of kids on the autism spectrum. None of their parents blame the shots.)
(Note 4: Yeah, vaccinations should be mandatory for your kid to go to school, with only medical exceptions that doctors certify for reasons like cancer treatment.)
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/02/vaccinate-your-fucking-kids.html
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)it'll be alerted on for that one word in it.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)I agree; Christie is very offensive.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Vaccinate your fucking kids.
3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)...the people from the National Vaccine (Mis)Information Center.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)It was 1951 and I was 8 years old. I was totally out of it for about 3 days and in bed for a week I had classmates who suffered heart damage and hearing and vision loss from the measles. I saw a neighbor child almost die from whooping cough, not to mention the little girl who lived down the block who was permanently crippled from polio.
I got my kids the shots as soon as they were of the right age and the vaccines were available. The parents who do not vaccinate their children are fools and will subject their children to great suffering if the kids do get sick.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)I saw my mom suffer with the effects of polio and I had the 21 day measles which turned into encephalitis, the effects of which still limit me a bit. I also got the chicken pox as an adult and it knocked me on my ass for about 2 weeks and I felt sicker than shit!!! I too vaccinated our kids as soon as they could be!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I'm in awe, as always.
I love you! Marry me!
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)I love him too.
I'd ditch my husband for him, but I'm too damn old.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I did a bitsrip with the RP, floating seductively in my dreams. My one and only Bitstrip, which I did to come out publicly with my crush on him:
"Yes, Blanche is in love with the Rude Pundit".
Well guess what? He answered me!!!!! Right there on my fb page!
*swoooon*
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)and I won't tell a soul...
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I knew I could trust you.
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,661 posts)We collected different branches of the family tree. All of the families in the 1800's lost children to childhood diseases. One family had 9 children but only 2 lived to adulthood. Even though it is only a few generations in the past, we no longer have this kind of oral history passed down. The family in back of us had a daughter who suffered from polio as an infant and I had measles, mumps and chicken pox as a kid. We made sure our daughter was immunized against everything, including the HPV vaccine as soon as it was available.
ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)I think that's going to be my standard response. When you get bombarded with stupid-- what do you have left? "Vaccinate your fucking kids"
I absofuckinglutely agree. Vaccinate your fucking kids.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)Rude nailed it.
drm604
(16,230 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)uppityperson
(115,679 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,337 posts).... sanitation in the 20th century.
Ace Rothstein
(3,183 posts)I just traveled to South America late last year and had at least 5 shots. Did it suck? Yeah, but not nearly as bad as Yellow Fever would have.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Fuck anti-vaxxers.
moondust
(20,006 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I heard an "anti-vaxxer" on some AM radio broadcast go on and on about vaccinations being a government conspiracy ... once they condition the people to accept government shots, the government will then introduce poisons to eradicate the "undesirables", e.g., constitutionalists, god-fearing people, and with the coming demographic shifts, white people, in general.
rpannier
(24,338 posts)They're the *ahem* intellectual inheritors to the 'shots are a communist plot' theory from the late 50's and early 60's
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)And you know how they project.
Everything they FEAR THE LIBS are plotting to do to them----is exactly what they want to do.... To Libs and other people they don't like.
Clearest example of projection you could ever hope for! .
The Green Manalishi
(1,054 posts)and the kids in a home run by sane adults. Instantly.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Way to go, Rude!
BobbyBoring
(1,965 posts)N/T
aikoaiko
(34,183 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)Follow the money
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)is almost impossible. Just as we treated native Americans, perhaps the government could set aside land for the habitation of anti-vaccers. That would allow them to continually infect each other with curable diseases.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)But I was cheering half-way through this one.
Kudos.
Vaccinate yer fuckin' kids.
malaise
(269,157 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Mention "science" and they think scientists are evil commie frauds out for grant money from the government.
They believe their "rugged individuality" can conquer the world so what chance does a bug have?
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)gademocrat7
(10,667 posts)Paladin
(28,272 posts)Rude Pundit nails it, as usual: "...voodoo-like pseudoscience, worship of individuality, and selfish helicopter parenting."
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)Later? I was vaccinated against nearly everything while in the Army, but haven't had another MMR in decades.
Confused about vaccines...always thought once you completed a series you were good for life, except for flu shots, tetanus boosters, etc.
Is MMR still considered one of those where you are immunized for life?
I had mumps as a child before the vaccine was available. Don't remember it but my Mom said I was miserable. I'm glad the vaccine is available now.
caraher
(6,279 posts)I took the quiz on the page and it didn't suggest a new MMR for me. I didn't look at the immunization schedule yet.
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)cab67
(3,007 posts)the Arizona father who refuses to vaccinate his child, and who has what can only be described as a breathtakingly ignorant view of what causes leukemia, is a cardiologist.
I'm gobsmacked that someone could get through medical school and believe these things. I hope his patients read this article and took appropriate measures.
MattSh
(3,714 posts)Refusing to get your children immunized against measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, whooping cough, hepatitis, diphtheria, fuckin' polio, and other nasty shit is one of the great expressions of bourgeois decadence in the latter days of this dying empire. It is a ludicrous convergence of voodoo-like pseudoscience, worship of individuality, and selfish helicopter parenting.