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leviosaurus		2012-12-04 03:57:11 PM

6 votes:

For those of you who are newtboucher:
You can go fark yourself for blaming Obama for this though, that's idiotic. Vaccines have been required by law for over 40 years, as I have them and I'm over 40 years old and to go to school in the 70s I had to have them. nixon was in office, he's a republican. It's his fault.

For those of you who are new to the "Quinn on the piano" meme, here's the original thread. Here's a google list of some of the copypastas of the original thread. I think Quinn has so far been killed by lawn darts, drunk drivers, black feet, BBQ Gas tank explosion, and Kim Jong Il. This is the first time that I am aware of that Quinn has died as a result of Obama mandated vaccination,

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freewill		2012-12-04 03:50:43 PM

3 votes:

Arkanaut: Because People in power are Stupid: Congress REPUBLICANS are making us sick.

Eh, TFA says Kucinich is also part of the anti-vax derp brigade.

/derpers gonna derp.

Yeah, in my experience, this is mainly a phenomenon of left-leaning Whole Foods-type soccer moms, with right-leaning homeschooler conspiracy theorists trailing way behind. I've read in several places that the Bay Area is the epicenter of it.

It's not really partisan stupidity, it's just stupidity.

hstein3		2012-12-04 03:48:02 PM

3 votes:

Car_Ramrod		2012-12-04 03:46:43 PM

3 votes:

First voting against disability rights, now this. God I hate Republicans.

JackieRabbit		2012-12-04 03:38:33 PM

3 votes:

Let's mow this crop of Congress down and plant again. Only this time can we spring for certified seed that isn;t full of weeds?

snocone		2012-12-04 03:37:55 PM

3 votes:

This is as good as it gets when you license profit from sick and suffering humans.

Because People in power are Stupid		2012-12-04 01:36:49 PM

3 votes:

~~Congress~~ REPUBLICANS are making us sick.

Millennium		2012-12-04 04:12:47 PM

2 votes:

BronyMedic: Wow. I don't know what's more awesome. That ChipNASA posted babyquarium, or that people are taking his copypasta seriously.

I hope he brought a bigger boat to catch all those fish with.

On a related note, can anyone post the Babyquarium thread again that started all this? I feel like feeling like I'm going to hell for laughing at something today.

Here it is. Somehow I'd missed all this the first time around.

Long story short: a thread on the Duggars losing a baby brings down the standard Fark-hate. Posts come in from an incensed Farker whose wife had lost a baby a few years ago, including a picture of the small memorial shadow-box (which contains, among other things, the remains). This post is confirmed real, and an unusually mean-spirited meme, even for Fark, is born.

...and I officially regret giving the troll a 9/10, knowing what I know now. Leave that meme in the past.

sweetmelissa31		2012-12-04 03:49:01 PM

2 votes:

piledhigheranddeeper: Vaccines are a good moneymaker for special interests.

Treatments for chronic diseases are the real moneymakers. Vaccines are a pretty bad deal for pharmaceuticals.

Slaves2Darkness		2012-12-04 03:47:23 PM

2 votes:

CrazyCracka420: I could care less about the arguments back and forth about the flu vaccine causing autism (I don't believe it does personally from what I've seen). I abstain from getting a flu vaccine every year because I think it's retarded as fark to inject your body with a vaccine to a minor annoyance. Vaccines should be only for the life threatening or body crippling ailments, the stuff we got vaccines for as kids.

Just because they have a vaccine for a minor inconvenience, doesn't mean you should inject your body with it. I'll let someone else be the guinea pig.

You do realize the influenza kills? That on average 200,000 people will be hospitalized every flu season? That in any given year 3000-50000 will die from it?

The flu is not a minor inconvenience, it is a major farking killer.

tboucher		2012-12-04 03:45:26 PM

2 votes:

ChipNASA: There are few times when Farkers embarrass me. This is one of them.

God forbid any of you ever have to live through something of this nature. I hope you never have to answer the phone and hear your inconsolably weeping wife on the other end of the line as she mutters the only words she is able to muster "they cant find a heartbeat".

Anyone who does the "welcome to fark" meme can DIAF.

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This is Quinn's remains. He sits atop my piano. He was KILLED by vaccinations that the government forced on us. If it weren't for Obama and his healthcare reform, NONE of this would have happened.

First off, sorry for your loss. shiat happens and it's never good. My little Quinn is alive and well (and female, guess the name is multi gender) and vaccinated and while I dread the chance of an allergic reaction with each of my children I would do it again each time. They work, Allergic reactions / adverse reactions happen, and when they give you the odds they sound great until it's yours. So it sucks.

However, I'd take that odd with any of my child if it kept the much more larger odds of them dying by the things they protect against. They aren't million to one odds when you get some of the ones you're being vaccinated against, or the others.

You can go fark yourself for blaming Obama for this though, that's idiotic. Vaccines have been required by law for over 40 years, as I have them and I'm over 40 years old and to go to school in the 70s I had to have them. nixon was in office, he's a republican. It's his fault.

tboucher		2012-12-04 03:40:40 PM

2 votes:

Because People in power are Stupid: Congress REPUBLICANS are making us sick.

no, Kucinich isn't a republican, this is an equal opportunity idiot thing. You just need to be upper middle class to believe this shiat apparently.

Stone Meadow		2012-12-04 03:40:15 PM

2 votes:

The answer is simple, Dear Phil...because Congress has people like Todd "Legitimate Rape" Atkins on the Science Committee. Their SELF APPOINTED TASK is to discredit science where ever and when ever they can.

Arkanaut		2012-12-04 03:34:33 PM

2 votes:

Because People in power are Stupid: Congress REPUBLICANS are making us sick.

Eh, TFA says Kucinich is also part of the anti-vax derp brigade.

/derpers gonna derp.

Diogenes		2012-12-04 01:27:18 PM

2 votes:

And if the evidence doesn't agree Burton's ridiculous assertions, he'll just falsify something and face no consequences. Worked with Webster Hubbell.

Aigoo		2012-12-05 12:15:48 AM

1 votes:

Slaves2Darkness: Anti-Vaccine quackary? Well duh you can't really expect much out of Christians, and most congress critters are Christians. I mean anybody that believes in magic has an inherent bias against science, so of course they can't be counted on to think rationally about vaccines.

huh. Odd. The only antivaxxers I know are Scientologists. Every single Christian I have ever known vaccinates their children, is happy to go to doctors and take full advantage of medical science, and doesn't particularly have any issue with science in general.

Extremists and fundamentalists, on the other hand, regardless of what religion/school of thought they claim, "can't be counted on to think rationally about" anything. So I guess that puts you in the extremist camp, since you clearly cannot be counted on to think rationally about anyone who believes in a power greater than... you?

Random Discord		2012-12-04 10:31:01 PM

1 votes:

Noticeably F.A.T.: CrazyCracka420: A whole "thousands" of deaths a year? My god, call the wahmbulance.

The point it that most of those deaths are pretty easily preventable. Sure, the flu might only cause 0.0001%* deaths in the US, but with a very small amount of effort that number could be 0.000000001%*. So, why the f*ck aren't people putting forth that effort?

/*Yes, those numbers are pulled out of my ass. The point still stands.

Meh. Earth is full

nytmare		2012-12-04 07:25:10 PM

1 votes:

Good thing they got the smallpox campaign done when they could, just think if they tried to do it these days thanks to the willfully ignorant third of the US fighting against progress.

fluffy2097		2012-12-04 07:01:58 PM

1 votes:

We need a good plague anyways to remind people how farking good we have it right now.

I think a massive whooping cough outbreak would be great. It'd kill tons of babies and people with compromised immune systems, while not killing healthy adults.

Antivaxxers would be brought up on criminal charges. Vaccines would become mandatory, and herd immunity would be restored.

/shame we have to kill some people to make it happen but there is no other way to get it done.

Millennium		2012-12-04 04:58:42 PM

1 votes:

jonas opines: What's behind the movement? Somewhere, someone HAS to know that they're making this crap up. What is the purpose? Is there a purpose? It doesn't make any sense!

The first antivaxers are dead, most likely; it's hard to remember sometimes that vaccines have been around for over 200 years.

This presents a problem, because the originators of the modern form of the antivax movement likely aren't just making this crap up. The ones who did that were their forebears: what the modern antivaxers are guilty of is confirmation bias, not wholesale fabrication. This is unfortunate, because it means you can't just expose them as frauds: they actually don't know they're wrong. Instead you have to disprove the hypothesis, which is a much harder task.

jonas opines		2012-12-04 04:38:13 PM

1 votes:

Okay, somebody help me out here, 'cuz I'm not getting it.

WHY are people opposed to vaccines? And by "people" I'm not really asking about the sheepers who see something a celebrity said on the internet or a politician lies about during a speech and just fire up without actually fact-checking. Those people are always there, and they're nothing if not predictable.

What's behind the movement? Somewhere, someone HAS to know that they're making this crap up. What is the purpose? Is there a purpose? It doesn't make any sense!

that was my nickname in highschool		2012-12-04 04:32:13 PM

1 votes:

Millennium: Here it is. Somehow I'd missed all this the first time around.

Long story short: a thread on the Duggars losing a baby brings down the standard Fark-hate. Posts come in from an incensed Farker whose wife had lost a baby a few years ago, including a picture of the small memorial shadow-box (which contains, among other things, the remains). This post is confirmed real, and an unusually mean-spirited meme, even for Fark, is born.

...and I officially regret giving the troll a 9/10, knowing what I know now. Leave that meme in the past.

Oh God. I had no idea that was real. I won't be touching that one.

Doom MD		2012-12-04 04:24:20 PM

1 votes:

jigger: ChipNASA: If it weren't for Obama and his healthcare reform, NONE of this would have happened.

Link

"We've seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it's connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it." --Barack Obama, Pennsylvania Rally, April 21, 2008.

What a goddamn ignorant comment to make.

jigger		2012-12-04 04:19:55 PM

1 votes:

ChipNASA: If it weren't for Obama and his healthcare reform, NONE of this would have happened.

Link

"We've seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it's connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it." --Barack Obama, Pennsylvania Rally, April 21, 2008.

ghare		2012-12-04 04:13:53 PM

1 votes:

hstein3: ghare: Arkanaut: Because People in power are Stupid: Congress REPUBLICANS are making us sick.

Eh, TFA says Kucinich is also part of the anti-vax derp brigade.

/derpers gonna derp.

Yeah, but Kucinich is gone, and anti-vax ain't on the Democratic platform. As opposed to wacko Republicans and their platform.

Anti-vaxx: Not part of the GOP platform. This is just the personal bugaboo of some crazy congressmen who happen to be GOP.

/Is preventing Guam from tipping over part of the Dem platform?

No, but thinking that Guam tipping over would be a Bad Thing is.

Vegan Meat Popsicle		2012-12-04 04:07:10 PM

1 votes:

moothemagiccow: Not everyone needs a flu vaccine

No. But the people who can't get them might appreciate if you do anyway.

sweetmelissa31		2012-12-04 04:00:05 PM

1 votes:

Slaves2Darkness: The flu is not a minor inconvenience, it is a major farking killer.

The flu mutates so quickly that you can get vaccinated and still get it. One year I got the vaccine and still got a different strain of flu.

neongoats		2012-12-04 03:56:51 PM

1 votes:

BronyMedic		2012-12-04 03:54:59 PM

1 votes:

Wow. I don't know what's more awesome. That ChipNASA posted babyquarium, or that people are taking his copypasta seriously.

I hope he brought a bigger boat to catch all those fish with.

On a related note, can anyone post the Babyquarium thread again that started all this? I feel like feeling like I'm going to hell for laughing at something today.

Millennium		2012-12-04 03:54:17 PM

1 votes:

sporkme		2012-12-04 03:53:54 PM

1 votes:

Slaves2Darkness: CrazyCracka420: I could care less about the arguments back and forth about the flu vaccine causing autism (I don't believe it does personally from what I've seen). I abstain from getting a flu vaccine every year because I think it's retarded as fark to inject your body with a vaccine to a minor annoyance. Vaccines should be only for the life threatening or body crippling ailments, the stuff we got vaccines for as kids.

Just because they have a vaccine for a minor inconvenience, doesn't mean you should inject your body with it. I'll let someone else be the guinea pig.

You do realize the influenza kills? That on average 200,000 people will be hospitalized every flu season? That in any given year 3000-50000 will die from it?

The flu is not a minor inconvenience, it is a major farking killer.

This
Also, immunized people don't spread it to the vulnerable.

There was a recent fark story about the herd immunity level for flu recently.

ArkPanda		2012-12-04 03:53:27 PM

1 votes:

Sybarite: I had some congress that made me sick, but a shot of penicillin cleared it right up.

Actually penicillin is pretty useless nowadays partly because of people being retarded about science.

moothemagiccow		2012-12-04 03:52:49 PM

1 votes:

HotWingConspiracy: CrazyCracka420: I abstain from getting a flu vaccine every year because I think it's retarded as fark to inject your body with a vaccine to a minor annoyance. Vaccines should be only for the life threatening

Flu is life threatening.

Diarrhea is life threatening. Don't go to the other extreme and demand that optional, annual vaccines be mandatory. They're optional for a farking reason.

Car_Ramrod		2012-12-04 03:50:51 PM

1 votes:

The Face Of Oblivion: Car_Ramrod: God I hate Republicans.

FTA: He goes on for some time about mercury (as does Rep. Dennis Kucinitch (D-Ohio)

Yeah, those goddamn biblethumpers have a monopoly on science-related idiocy.

Then a double dumbass on Kucinich, too.

sabreWulf07		2012-12-04 03:50:22 PM

1 votes:

CrazyCracka420: I abstain from getting a flu vaccine every year because I think it's retarded as fark to inject your body with a vaccine to a minor annoyance. Vaccines should be only for the life threatening or body crippling ailments

Yea! You'll be the Typhoid Mary of your community, the grim spectre of painful death visited upon the infants and the seniors because herd immunity is retarded as fark! You've got your health, so fark everyone else!

The Face Of Oblivion		2012-12-04 03:50:03 PM

1 votes:

Car_Ramrod: God I hate Republicans.

FTA: He goes on for some time about mercury (as does Rep. Dennis Kucinitch (D-Ohio)

Yeah, those goddamn biblethumpers have a monopoly on science-related idiocy.

moothemagiccow		2012-12-04 03:50:01 PM

1 votes:

Vegan Meat Popsicle: CrazyCracka420: I abstain from getting a flu vaccine every year because I think it's retarded as fark to inject your body with a vaccine to a minor annoyance

Wanna hear something neat?

You may have actually killed people by being such a stupid person yourself.

Cool, huh?

Not everyone needs a flu vaccine

BronyMedic		2012-12-04 03:46:47 PM

1 votes:

tboucher: Doesn't get the joke.

Account Created: 2005.

You CANNOT be that new here that you don't know the glory of the Babyquarium.

Vegan Meat Popsicle		2012-12-04 03:46:24 PM

1 votes:

CrazyCracka420: I abstain from getting a flu vaccine every year because I think it's retarded as fark to inject your body with a vaccine to a minor annoyance

Wanna hear something neat?

You may have actually killed people by being such a stupid person yourself.

Cool, huh?

CrazyCracka420		2012-12-04 03:43:35 PM

1 votes:

I could care less about the arguments back and forth about the flu vaccine causing autism (I don't believe it does personally from what I've seen). I abstain from getting a flu vaccine every year because I think it's retarded as fark to inject your body with a vaccine to a minor annoyance. Vaccines should be only for the life threatening or body crippling ailments, the stuff we got vaccines for as kids.

Just because they have a vaccine for a minor inconvenience, doesn't mean you should inject your body with it. I'll let someone else be the guinea pig.

Vegan Meat Popsicle		2012-12-04 03:42:17 PM

1 votes:

busy chillin'		2012-12-04 03:38:06 PM

1 votes:

Jenny McCarthy Body Count

vaxxed my kids fresh out the box...what?

you have pee hands		2012-12-04 03:36:26 PM

1 votes:

Because People in power are Stupid: Congress REPUBLICANS are making us sick.

Kucinich is one of them, too.

Cythraul		2012-12-04 01:59:09 PM

1 votes:

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Diogenes		2012-12-04 01:54:33 PM

1 votes:

Sybarite: I had some congress that made me sick, but a shot of penicillin cleared it right up.

Clapping for Congress.

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2012-12-04 01:53:57 PM

1 votes:

Well, they do make me nauseous on a pretty regular basis

Sybarite		2012-12-04 01:50:25 PM

1 votes:

I had some congress that made me sick, but a shot of penicillin cleared it right up.

The Stealth Hippopotamus		2012-12-04 12:52:09 PM

1 votes:

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