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Smewage's avatar

Anyone who's taken an infant or toddler in for their shots should be laughing themselves sick at the idea that one shot should be split up into three different shots that you and your kid have to suffer through. Not to mention the cost of three office visits vs. one. Who is this helping?

Goonemeritus's avatar

Then why is my wife not pregnant, and don't give me that she's 70 years old crap.

Ward From Cali's avatar

California did have a famously nasty measles outbreak back in 2014. It was not caused by undocumented aliens, it was caused by prosperous, new-agey white people all of whom were up to date on all the latest woo and were (and probably still are) utterly convinced that they know more than every licensed physician on the planet.

Dr. Richard Pan, then a fairly new state Senator, made a name for himself by ramming through California's current, tough childhood vaccination law, which is why the 2014 outbreak waa an outlier in California, and not thr start of a trend, which it surely would have been. We've got an abundance of moneyed, woo-loving Dunning-Kruger sufferers, here.

Dr. Pan is running for Congress this year, by the way. My district, the 6th. I'll be supporting him.

Delmarva Peninsula's avatar

We gave a lot of money to this guy's HealthCorps charity back in the day. I want every frickin penny back.

Kathy Powers's avatar

Get vaccinated! Wish they had a vaccine for produce rinsed with wastewater!

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I never got the mumps as a child, and I never got the vaccine when it came out because they were aiming it at kids, and I was in college. A few years back, I asked my doctor if I should get it, and he didn't see the need.

Recently, he decided it wouldn't hurt to get the shot.

Elderly John's avatar

I recently got the MMR, because nobody can remember what vaccinations I had 80 years ago. I did turn up with chicken pox about 15 years ago so I wound up getting the Shingrix vaccination not too long ago.

Teddy Barnes's avatar

I've said it before.......Do YOU want to be the one taking your child to the pediatrician 5 times for shots vs 1? Good luck after that first screaming fit, getting them back for 2-5.....

Elderly John's avatar

Why would anyone do that to a child they loved?

DemoCat's avatar

Stupid and misinformed people have wanted to question and challenge medical science for decades. They feel inferior and they don’t like being told what’s best for them or their kin. They have home remedies for things like measles. Some honey and raw milk and skunk weed tea will cure ya without coddling kids. Natural immunity comes from getting sick, sometimes deathly ill, and even losing a few kids is the price of freedom. That’s why you should marry a teenage bride and have 12 kids. That way you have extras. It’s nature’s way.

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

They allow a 3 yo to shoot fucking weapons?

RACINE COUNTY — A Racine County Sheriff's deputy is facing criminal charges after his 3-year-old daughter accidentally shot a 40-year-old man and his 7-year-old son during a youth turkey hunt in April at Honey Creek Wildlife Area in the Town of Rochester.

Scroll down and check out daddy's mullet.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/in-your-community/racine-county/racine-county-deputy-charged-after-3-year-old-daughter-shoots-man-and-child-during-turkey-hunt

Elderly John's avatar

"...after his 3-year-old daughter accidentally shot ..." I call BULL SHIT. A shotgun is heavy and the tyke was 3, not 23. Stupid-ass Daddy fired the shot and had the supreme character to blame his daughter, so not a mark on his record at the station. She can't read yet, so she won't be embarrassed yet.

It's generally considered a wise move to get your 3 year old accustomed to seeing what a shotgun can do to a big bird with lots of feathers and a head, wings, feed, etc. Now, at Thanksgiving, when she draws a turkey with her new crayons, she can use some additional colors that she wouldn't have thought of before.

I wonder if the deputy dragged his little daughter over to see what the shotgun did to the nice man and this son, the 7 year-old who wound up with pellets in his spine. Those wounds bleed like crazy, and the poor kid must have been screaming in real pain. OTOH, maybe the deputy could take the tyke's skirt and rip out a bandage. Guys who've been in the military know all about that shit.

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Hadn't even considered that! He would be charged with multiple crimes yet a baby wouldn't! Smooth move for the mullet headed moron.

Wookiee Monster's avatar

Look, some people just have superior immune systems so they don’t need vaccinations. And they know this because they can feel it in their hearts, where the best medical decisions are made. That’s just science./s

Mr. Knows Nothing, et. al.'s avatar

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mexico is pretty aggressive in the childhood vaccination realm, so its likely those immigrants are what pushes up the herd immunity numbers.

Teddy Barnes's avatar

You are correct. Mexico Rates Completely Unvaccinated: The number of children receiving zero vaccines remains very low (under 1%).

Warren's avatar

Dr Oz’s medical license should be revoked.

Herr Snackmeier's avatar

Coolidge was talking about police officers striking in Boston in 1909, but his anti-labor pith line can be easily and accurately adapted to this moment:

"There is no right to be a special snowflake against the public health by anybody, anywhere, any time."

T Mc's avatar

I'm old as dirt and can remember the pervasive fear back in the "pre-polio vaccine" era, the late 50s and early 60s. A close neighborhood kid got polio and ended up crippled for the rest of his life. Thoughts of paralysis and a lifetime in an 'iron lung' were the stuff of nightmares.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I remember going through the line at the local high school cafeteria to get my polio vaccine. People considered it a gift from God.

I got mine in a little paper cup. I now understand many got there's on a sugar cube. I feel like I'm owed some sort of refund.

T Mc's avatar

I should add that I eventually received the painful Salk vaccine injection and was angry because later on, my younger brother was able to get the Sabin vaccine by eating a sugar cube.

Always Be Ithacating's avatar

Sincerely, no disrespect to Margaret Brennan, but when she can checkmate you in seconds, maybe you ought to resign and resume making your living by grifting the rubes on the teevee.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Since he didn't want to talk about all the health-related idiocy coming out of the Trump administration, she could have pivoted to his ownership in supplement companies being touted by MAHA.

I kid, but the look on his face would have been precious.

Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Dr. Quackadoodle can go piss up a rope. And RFK Cuckoo Jr. also. Nobody in this administration is serving the people of this nation,. And least of all, the Republicans who turn a blind eye to the dumpster fire they started. All of them need to be turned out of office.