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Aromatic-Ad7816 t1_iwxi8ay wrote

Reply to comment by Accurate_Zombie_121 in As measles outbreak sickens dozens of children in Ohio, local health officials seek help from CDC | CNN by Surly_Cynic

Not vaccinating children against measles, smallpox and polio needs to start being treated like child endangerment. Just because the parents are stupid enough to believe online nonsense and let irrational fear govern their choices doesn't mean we let the kids suffer for it.

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iqbalpratama t1_ix3fmtw wrote

> polio

I'm an Indonesian and after so many years of being declared "polio-free," we just had one new polio case in a child which "never received ANY vaccination." This happened in a highly conservative province where vaccination rates had been constantly plummetting for years......

We are this close to eradicating polio but these kind of things kept happening because some fool refused to vaccinate their kids due to whatever flawed logic / belief they had......

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meatball77 t1_iwxjc2p wrote

No one is vaccinated against smallpox

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Aromatic-Ad7816 t1_iwxjn9w wrote

I meant the other parts of MMR. Had just read an article about the eradication of smallpox. Disconnect between brain and fingers.

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meatball77 t1_iwxmhsr wrote

Mumps and Rubella. Rubella is a quite mild disease. Unless your are pregnant and then it will kill your baby.

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Aromatic-Ad7816 t1_iwxny5u wrote

Well conservatives are true to their names. They want to conserve how things used to be - a time where only half of children made it to 5 and a successful pregnancy was more or less a diceroll.

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meatball77 t1_iwxq0jw wrote

Freebirth, where it's ok if the kid is "born sleeping" because it's a good experience for the mother.

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tikierapokemon t1_iwxzoic wrote

Or you are like me and it triggers early onset arthritis, and you get the kind of arthritis your relatives have in their 50s at in your teens. (Rubella).

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Durdens_Wrath t1_iwy4euj wrote

> Had just read an article about the eradication of smallpox

Oh Im sure it will make a comeback, like polio

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