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2015-04-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Anti-vaxxer mother recants after her seven children contract whooping cough

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Posted by Fred 2015-04-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 why has she got 7 children?

nobody should have more than 3 maximum. totally irresponsible. needs birth control

Posted by anon1 2015-04-13 03:57|| 2015-04-13 03:57|| Front Page Top

#2 nobody should have more than 3 maximum. totally irresponsible. needs birth control

Given how many aren't having any at all these days, it's nice she's providing members of the next generation to pay taxes to support us in our old age. I suggested to the trailing daughters and the fosterlings that they have four apiece precisely for that reeason. Trailing daughter just got hired for her first professional job; in July she will be appalled at how much of her earnt income will be taken out of each paycheck for the social security/government pension and retirement medical benefits that she will never see, and for her children's generation it will be worse.

On the other hand, there's always the possibility that this woman's children will end up blind, deaf, insane, sterile, mentally retarded, and/or dead from the diseases they'll get for lack of vaccinations, in which case having seven won't have been enough to beat the odds.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-04-13 04:55|| 2015-04-13 04:55|| Front Page Top

#3 #1, you are a math challenged fool.

You have it exactly backwards. Every woman who is fertile enough to do so should have at least three children. Attrition due to childhood disease and trauma, disease, and the occasional infertile woman demand that this be the case.

Above and beyond tw's bit about elder care, there is also the concern that your nation will not be able to have workers for an agricultural or industrial workforce, or a military sufficiently large enough to defend your nation. A billion seventh century sociopaths need a deterrent after all.

Posted by no mo uro 2015-04-13 05:33|| 2015-04-13 05:33|| Front Page Top

#4 #5 For all the leftists who claim that anti-science is a predominantly center/right thing, I give you exhibit A as to why it is not.

Get a map of the U.S. Stick a pin into it every place there is a Whole Foods. Within a 30 mile radius of all the pins you'll find 99% of your antivaxx population. Their voting habits are decidedly left of center.

Posted by no mo uro 2015-04-13 05:43|| 2015-04-13 05:43|| Front Page Top

#5 "Recants" may not be the right word. Doubt she thought they couldn't get sick. More likely she weighed the risk of disease against the perceived risk of the vaccine itself. Took her chances and came up snake eyes.

Posted by Iblis 2015-04-13 10:35|| 2015-04-13 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 There was an interesting point made in the Australian papers yesterday, that anti-vaxxer parents are still immunising their kids against one disease- tetanus. Tetanus is not caused by human-to-human transmission, it is soil borne. So if you want immunity against tetanus, it's up to you to get the shots. For the rest, a parasitic free ride on herd immunity is feasible, or was until there were enough free riders to break down herd immunity for the population as a whole.

Posted by Grunter 2015-04-13 10:58|| 2015-04-13 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Still within my parents living memory is where they had a sick room in most houses. It was only used when people got sick and were quarantined. Those fell out of popularity/necessity as vaccinations drove away those diseases that required them.

With all these idiots not vaccinating, we might be seeing those rooms again.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-04-13 11:38|| 2015-04-13 11:38|| Front Page Top

#8 If you don't trust doctors enough to vacinated why would you trust them when it comes to surgery and other things?

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-04-13 15:31|| 2015-04-13 15:31|| Front Page Top

#9 The estimates for botched medical care leading to death in hospitals runs around 200,000+ annually. Meanwhile gun homicides run about 11,000+. So which is more dangerous to the average person?

That's the sort of thing that happens when you take your health care advice from Playboy centerfolds.

..or who to vote for President.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-13 19:31|| 2015-04-13 19:31|| Front Page Top

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