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(Ars Technica)   Anti-vaxers are cheering polio outbreaks because stigginit or something   (arstechnica.com) divider line
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    More: Dumbass, New York City, Polio vaccine, Vaccine, Sudden infant death syndrome, Hudson River, Poliomyelitis, Vaccination, Orange County, New York  
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Devolving_Spud [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-08-17 12:09:57 PM  
Owning the libs by burning their own products they paid money for.

Owning the libs by dying of covid.

Owning the libs by getting thrown off airplanes for not wearing a mask.

Owning the libs by letting their own children become paralyzed or handicapped.

When you look at their past choices, this one isn't any more strange.  I look forward to some new animal medication or other toxic brew being taken as a "cure" for polio.
 
Gubbo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-08-17 12:51:22 PM  
As a shareholder in Big Iron Lung - I say let these parents make their own decisions for their children. Clearly they know best.

And really who are you to try and force your beliefs on others.
 
iToad [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-08-17 1:20:51 PM  
I remember getting vaccinated against polio back in the 50's. I also remember just how glad my mother was to see me vaccinated. She was a nurse, and got to see polio up close and personal.
 
Smoking GNU [TotalFark]
2022-08-17 1:40:48 PM  
Nurgle is pleased....
 
JerkStore
2022-08-17 1:40:52 PM  
Yes, this is so much better than getting a shot. Keep it up, stupids.

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hervatski [TotalFark]
2022-08-17 1:41:48 PM  
Imagine being Bobby Kennedy and realizing that your son turned out to be a farking horrible idiotic piece of shiat.
 
sdd2000
2022-08-17 1:41:49 PM  
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OkieDookie [TotalFark]
2022-08-17 1:42:05 PM  
Humanity is a disease, Mr. Anderson.
 
madmaxxam
2022-08-17 1:42:12 PM  
I see patients with complications from remote polio. Just saw one yesterday. It's horrible what it did to people, and there was very little controversy back in those days about the vaccine compared to what's going on now.
Can't imagine that I might start seeing new polio patients. Hurray for the 21st century filled with 'special' people!
 
menschenfresser
2022-08-17 1:42:24 PM  
The only discernible goal of right wingers I can identify, is to turn America into a third-world shiathole. That's where literally all of their positions lead so it has to be that.
 
yellowjester
2022-08-17 1:43:29 PM  

Gubbo: As a shareholder in Big Iron Lung - I say let these parents make their own decisions for their children. Clearly they know best.

And really who are you to try and force your beliefs on others.


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Rapmaster2000 [TotalFark]
2022-08-17 1:43:29 PM  
Robert F. Kennedy, had falsely claimed previously that a vaccination dip in 2020 led to a dramatic reduction in deaths from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

This mentality is ridiculous.  It's inductive reasoning.  You've started with the premise that vaccines are bad and then worked backwards searching for any "evidence" of that.  Doe vaccines cause autism or SIDS?

I posit that a vaccination dip in 2020 led to a dramatic reduction in me losing my car keys.  Prove me wrong.
 
severedtoe
2022-08-17 1:43:57 PM  
when your sole motivation is spite it is not surprising how far some will suffer just to share the pain with those they have been taught to hate.
 
Subtonic
2022-08-17 1:44:27 PM  
I'm waiting for them to start claiming the Polio vaccine is a leftist plot to sterilize suburban white people and then going out and bombing hospitals and doctors offices.
 
AxiomJackson
2022-08-17 1:44:27 PM  
Local leader of the anti-vax movement seen here giving a speak on the importance of these recent events.

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DHT3
2022-08-17 1:44:32 PM  
Of all the Kennedy's to NOT die young.
 
Rapmaster2000 [TotalFark]
2022-08-17 1:45:07 PM  

yellowjester: Gubbo: As a shareholder in Big Iron Lung - I say let these parents make their own decisions for their children. Clearly they know best.

And really who are you to try and force your beliefs on others.

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AND A GOOD DAY TO YOU, SIR!
 
sdd2000
2022-08-17 1:45:37 PM  
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serfdood [TotalFark]
2022-08-17 1:45:59 PM  
These farksticks won't be happy until the human race is extinct.
 
oldfool
2022-08-17 1:47:15 PM  
Meanwhile in Zimbabwe more than 150 kids die of measles
 
drayno76
2022-08-17 1:50:55 PM  

iToad: I remember getting vaccinated against polio back in the 50's. I also remember just how glad my mother was to see me vaccinated. She was a nurse, and got to see polio up close and personal.


Yeah, my mom's in her 70's and she's farking PISSED that Polio is making a comeback.  She called me up two days ago telling me she read that polio had been detected in N.Y.'s waste water. She had friends as a child who had Polio. So she made me pull up the records on my daughter and make sure she had been given the polio vaccination. Even though she knows that my child is as vaccinated as the pediatrician will let her, she's even started her Gardasil series started at age 12 and her Covid vaccination a year before authorizations were given for her age. 

This is one the 70+ crowd is not happy about at all. It's completely stupid that it has resurfaced.
 
Epicedion
2022-08-17 1:51:30 PM  
They're trying to increase the death rate amongst the lower classes to alleviate the issues that will be caused by the automation of lower class jobs in the next few decades.

/Not trolling
//Not not trolling
 
ImOnIslandTime
2022-08-17 1:52:21 PM  

menschenfresser: The only discernible goal of right wingers I can identify, is to turn America into a third-world shiathole. That's where literally all of their positions lead so it has to be that.


People in the third world actually get and want to get vaccines. They just want a pure chaos fascist state to hurt poor and brown people.
 
themindiswatching [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-08-17 1:53:01 PM  

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They'll just say that's when "natural immunity kicked in" or whatever.
 
sniderman
2022-08-17 1:53:03 PM  
Fair's fair. I plan to cheer when I hear of an anti-vax right winger contracting polio.
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2022-08-17 1:54:06 PM  
"Oh, it's only one case, what's the big deal?

Meanwhile, there are nearly 2000 cases of monkeypox in California as of this morning, and they're having to dilute the available vaccine down here to try to get healthcare workers at least partially immune.

I'm through with boards, I'm going to start beating these idiots with something sharper and heavier. I think ice picks.
 
olorin604
2022-08-17 1:54:44 PM  

Rapmaster2000: Robert F. Kennedy, had falsely claimed previously that a vaccination dip in 2020 led to a dramatic reduction in deaths from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

This mentality is ridiculous.  It's inductive reasoning.  You've started with the premise that vaccines are bad and then worked backwards searching for any "evidence" of that.  Doe vaccines cause autism or SIDS?

I posit that a vaccination dip in 2020 led to a dramatic reduction in me losing my car keys.  Prove me wrong.


I thought they were still waiting for RFK to come back, did I miss his reappearance somehow?
 
Khellendros
2022-08-17 1:56:50 PM  

drayno76: This is one the 70+ crowd is not happy about at all. It's completely stupid that it has resurfaced.


They've got similar thoughts about fascists.
 
moresugar
2022-08-17 1:57:33 PM  
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indy_kid
2022-08-17 1:58:18 PM  

JerkStore: Yes, this is so much better than getting a shot. Keep it up, stupids.

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Imagine how noisy that place must have been.

Can't move, can't cover your ears, nothing to do but lie there.
 
anuran
2022-08-17 1:59:54 PM  
Hurray for Natural Immunity!
We need to encourage Natural Immunity to measles, typhus, hepatitis, smallpox and rabies!
Bring back Rinderpest! the cows will be healthier.
 
UncleDirtNap
2022-08-17 2:02:16 PM  
Sounds like a good time to invest in kiddie wheelchairs.
 
dracos31
2022-08-17 2:02:20 PM  
I suppose it's a bit of turnabout being fair play.
After all, I regularly call for anti-vaxxers to drop dead from preventable diseases.
 
anuran
2022-08-17 2:02:31 PM  

ImOnIslandTime: menschenfresser: The only discernible goal of right wingers I can identify, is to turn America into a third-world shiathole. That's where literally all of their positions lead so it has to be that.

People in the third world actually get and want to get vaccines. They just want a pure chaos fascist state to hurt poor and brown people.


When Mrs. Nuran was growing up in a backwards third world shiathole mothers would carry their children for days to wherever there were vaccines. Everyone had a neighbor or family member who had died or gone blind or been crippled by encephalitis from measles.
 
Smirky the Wonder Chimp [TotalFark]
2022-08-17 2:04:09 PM  

Epicedion: They're trying to increase the death rate amongst the lower classes to alleviate the issues that will be caused by the automation of lower class jobs in the next few decades.

/Not trolling
//Not not trolling


This is exactly right.
 
KidGoat
2022-08-17 2:04:09 PM  
Nature always finds a balance and humans have no predator to keep our population in check. That's why Nature baked in shortsighted assholes. In hopes one day their stubborn idiocy would discover the internet and bring our numbers back down to acceptable levels. It's science, sheeples.
 
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier
2022-08-17 2:04:16 PM  
The kids love vintage stuff, and the iron lung? Literally nobody has one now! It's a hell of a good thrift store find.
 
henryhill
2022-08-17 2:04:34 PM  
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mistahtom
2022-08-17 2:04:34 PM  
Just like Moon-landing myths, the Russians helped propagate anti-vaccination misinformation until the checks cleared and the GOP bought the rights to parrot anti-vac rhetoric.
 
whidbey
2022-08-17 2:06:03 PM  
When are anti-vaxxers finally going to be officially regarded as a public health risk?
 
menschenfresser
2022-08-17 2:07:13 PM  

anuran: ImOnIslandTime: menschenfresser: The only discernible goal of right wingers I can identify, is to turn America into a third-world shiathole. That's where literally all of their positions lead so it has to be that.

People in the third world actually get and want to get vaccines. They just want a pure chaos fascist state to hurt poor and brown people.

When Mrs. Nuran was growing up in a backwards third world shiathole mothers would carry their children for days to wherever there were vaccines. Everyone had a neighbor or family member who had died or gone blind or been crippled by encephalitis from measles.


I guess I'm gonna get roasted for disparaging developing countries. Probably deserve it, but I also think everybody can tell what I was actually going for.
 
Kuroshin
2022-08-17 2:08:28 PM  

Gubbo: As a shareholder in Big Iron Lung - I say let these parents make their own decisions for their children. Clearly they know best.

And really who are you to try and force your beliefs on others.



Wait, so you're part owner of a company who still makes Iron Lungs?  Where the hell have you been?  There are still customers out there who need replacement parts, or even a new unit.
 
someonelse
2022-08-17 2:09:33 PM  
As the pic of RFK Jr at the top of TFA indicates, these are not just right wingers. I know crunchy granola anti-vaxxers as well as idiot Trumpy ones.  And garden variety mommy bloggers. This stupidity crosses all boundaries.
 
dylanthomas
2022-08-17 2:12:37 PM  
Who could have know that Nikki Minaj, Deuce Bigelow and the Singled Out lady would lead us astray?
 
OkieDookie [TotalFark]
2022-08-17 2:13:54 PM  
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harleyquinnical
2022-08-17 2:17:12 PM  

anuran: Hurray for Natural Immunity!
We need to encourage Natural Immunity to measles, typhus, hepatitis, smallpox and rabies!
Bring back Rinderpest! the cows will be healthier.


Diphtheria never gets any love.
 
NetOwl
2022-08-17 2:18:44 PM  
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mistahtom
2022-08-17 2:19:09 PM  

whidbey: When are anti-vaxxers finally going to be officially regarded as a public health risk?


When are they going to be charged 30x rates and premiums to off-set their eventual cost to the health system?
 
anuran
2022-08-17 2:19:13 PM  

harleyquinnical: anuran: Hurray for Natural Immunity!
We need to encourage Natural Immunity to measles, typhus, hepatitis, smallpox and rabies!
Bring back Rinderpest! the cows will be healthier.

Diphtheria never gets any love.


Diphtheria is self-sufficient and needs no outside validation.
 
whidbey
2022-08-17 2:23:18 PM  

mistahtom: whidbey: When are anti-vaxxers finally going to be officially regarded as a public health risk?

When are they going to be charged 30x rates and premiums to off-set their eventual cost to the health system?


One thing at a time.

Because you're talking about more than just people unwilling to take the jab.
 
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