Thanks to Anti-Vaccine Nutters Super Bowl Crowd Faces Measles Threat
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A few years ago some clown who shall remain nameless penned a piece about the evils of vaccinations. He made the claim that vaccines can cause autism, among other things, in children. Naturally this was nonsense and his claim was determined to be not only inaccurate but a complete fabrication; a story dreamed up to bring its author fame.
It may not have made him famous but it did make him infamous, and I won’t mention his name here because I don’t want to give any sort of credit, positive or negative, to his insanity.
Unfortunately, not everyone chooses to ignore claims that are not supported by the evidence, with actress Jenny McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., leading the pack, and it’s a growing pack, of anti-vacciners. These people, and their followers, are convinced that cause serious illnesses that threaten their children so they refuse to get them vaccinated, exposing thousands of others to diseases like measles, once thought eradicated because of the introduction of highly effective vaccines.
As thousands of people head to Phoenix, Arizona, for this year’s Super Bowl on Sunday, officials are trying to monitor the 1,000 people who may have been exposed to measles during the recent outbreak of the disease, believed to have been significant because of the anti-vaccine crowd.
Measles, which is not a threat to those who have been vaccinated, is particularly dangerous because it has a 90 percent transmission rate for anyone who comes into contact with infected people. Experts have suggested unvaccinated people who have been exposed to measles stay at home for three weeks. I think those who choose not to vaccinate themselves or their children should be arrested. Vaccination, after all, is a social obligation, not a personal decision. They are putting thousands of others at risk because of their bizarre and unfounded suspicions.
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To accept vaccinations would require that a person surrender his delusions. That cannot happen.
Delusions are far more important than social obligations, personal possessions, the law, family, friends, and especially simple human decency.
People can really be dicks.
Delusions. Yes. That’s it James, and yes people can really be dicks. It all goes back to that old adage: don’t believe everything you read, and yet millions of people are doing just that.