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Ohio is always having some sort of drama.  I sure hope they all have good health insurance.
I really wanna see how many antivaxxers would refuse a rabies vaccine if they were bitten by a rabid animal. >

There was at least one. >

He died. I told my antivax mom about that and she just pretended I didn't say anything at all. >

Sheesh. One of the worst ways to die on top of that. The species progresses, one way or another >

Rabies is pretty much 100% fatal, and it is NOT a good way to go. >

Yeah without the vaccine somewhat immediately and then 3/4 more doses over the next month, it's 100% fatal. If you get bitten by a stray animal you should always go to a doctor. I would say any animal but it's situational. Your family dog is extremely likely to have rabies than a wild fox or so.
Helplessness, hallucinations, inability to hydrate and then you start biting people because the virus is telling you to spread itself and making your brain think this is what you need to do. >

I saw a video on here recently of a guy with rabies trying to drink water. The hydrophobia is so weird to me. Can you truly not drink it or are you actually just that scared of water? >

The muscles in your neck go into a very uncomfortable and painful spasm every time you try to swallow anything including your own saliva (which is why you see people/animals drooling). Swallowing becomes extremely difficult. >

Such a creepy thing to realize the way a virus works. Rabies is spread through saliva in wounds or on mucous membranes. So the disease makes you unable to swallow so you’re dripping with viral loaded saliva and aggressive (likely to bite/scratch). >

Which honestly makes it the biggest candidate for evolving and causing the zombie apocalypse. The disease turns it's host into a walking virus. >

My sister and I are both vaccinated but we both got measles from her unvaccinated classmate. I was hospitalized with measles and pneumonia. This was in the early 90s when being anti-vax wasn't trendy. I have no idea why that kid wasn't vaccinated.
I tell this story a lot because I lived it. I'm extremely pro vaccine. It ultimately protected hundreds of kids in my school. I'm not mad that I was unlucky. I'm happy that the vaccine worked for so many... and me and my sister are still around, so big whoop.
Vaccinate your kids, stupid.
Edit: Because people don't understand efficacy rates with vaccines: Two doses of the MMR is 97% effective at preventing measles. I was in that 3% and exposed to the virus. >

My mom withheld a lot of vaccines from me that I had to get later in life for college and international travel. 
Anti-vaxxers have been around for a while, just not necessarily as the major cultural movement it is today. >

There are 2 types of "ant-vaxxer"
There are those radically opposed based on "their own research" and then there are those that just are too lazy and can't be bothered to keep up with the vaccine schedule.
It's why public vaccination campaigns in schools are so important.  We know like 20% of parents will never have their shit together but don't actively avoid vaccines. >

My mom fell in the middle. She was dubious but not militant until recently. She was convinced that vaccines gave my brother his diet sensitivities and cause his behavior issues because he got all of them and I didn’t and I ‘didn’t have those problems’. >

"Could it be DNA or parenting? No, it's the vaccines who are wrong" >

I’ve always been vocally pro-vaccine. My son was just recently diagnosed with autism. It is really annoying/frustrating the attitudes and looks I get from the anti-vaccine people in my life. Nobody has flat out said, “I told you so!” but the looks on their faces say it all.
Both my mother and I have a number of autistic traits, clearly it is genetic. Even more annoying is most of these are people from my mother’s side of the family, and most of them have had conflicts with my mother over the years because of her complete lack of social awareness.
One minor example is the time she gave my teenage cousin with a bad acne problem a bar of facial soap and explained to her that she needed to scrub her face with it twice a day and it would help, this interactions took place in front of the entire extended family. My cousin looked extremely embarrassed, but my clueless mom continued by warning her that if she didn’t use the soap she’ll end up with horrible scaring. Cringy moment, my aunt and uncle stayed angry over that one for a while. >

I have a sister, we had all the same vaccinations, I am autistic, she is definitely not. 
Faced with this simple, real life example, a lot of people would rather believe vaccines rather than which genes you inherit cause autism.
I can only conclude that this is because vaccines are something they can control, and genetics something they can't, and they'd rather kid themselves that they are in control than protect the life and health of their children and everyone else's. >

I wish I had an award to give you for this. I got measles as an infant and almost died. Immediately after, I got an awful infection and was in the hospital for weeks. I catch EVERYTHING that goes around and I am sicker longer and worse than everyone else is. All thanks to measles.