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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I guess the good thing is that eventually the anit-vaccine crowd and their offspring will eventually "die off".
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Not to take away from the rest of your post, which is bang on. However, this statement isn't really true.
The issue is this.
People do not vaccinate their children. This allows for an outbreak to occur (like the recent measles one). Children who cannot be vaccinated, and some vaccinated children get measles, suffer and possibly die.
To me the anti-vax crowd is split into types:
1. The hard core anti vax. They will see this outbreak and either not care because it won't happen to their kid, or if it does it will help their immune system naturally. These are the complete wackos, but comprise a very small portion of the population.
2. The uniformed but half committed. The people who read articles off Facebook shared by other uniformed scare prone people and believe it. They bang the anti vax drum hard, until an outbreak occurs. Then they are the first to run to the mall and fight someone to get the vaccine they should have got months or years ago.
3. The lazy. Just didn't do it cause have better things to do.
To be honest. #1 is so small that the risk to the rest of us is minimal. Some communes in interior BC would outbreak but who cares, it wouldn't really impact the main population. #2 and #3 are the big problem. They are in much greater numbers, and allow for an outbreak to start in the first place.
Honestly, you will never win over the hard-cores, and in fact they are the least dangerous. It is the borderline anti vax crowd who are the worst to me. The I refuse to vaccinate until an outbreak that cause the most damage.
So go get your kid vaccinated please, quit being lazy or stupid. Sorry I didn't want to be all condescending, but it is really that simple.