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Americans: health insurance is too expensive and it's unfair
Also Americans: I'm not going to give this cheap vaccine that even the worst health insurance will pay for to my kids that will completely eliminate the risk of contacting a deadly virus or giving it to other people
Also also Americans: see, I have a medical bill that is thousands of dollars, look how unfair it is
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. >

Ohio is always having some sort of drama.  I sure hope they all have good health insurance. >

I’m unfortunately from Ohio and there’s so many anti vaxxers around me that it makes me feel as if the states average IQ is just plummeting. I mean I know brilliant engineers who won’t get vaccinated all of a sudden and they’re passing it down to their kids. >

Being an antivaxxer used to be something for hippie woowoos who sing to crystals and think that pyramids cure cancer or some shit.
It's fucking weird that regressives latched on to it. >

It's always been anti-science people. Anti-vax, anti-GMO, climate deniers, they all share these traits.
In California we passed a law saying you can't be anti-vax based on religion anymore and go to school. You can be homeschooled or get vaxed unless there's a medical reason and it needs two doctors I think to say that there is a health danger to you. >

Just blows my mind that some engineers are anti-vax / anti-science.   I’m an engineer and that would be the antithesis of my being. >

We saw the same thing with a lot of nurses too. The people that should be the most on board with vaccines had a non-trivial number refuse the covid vaccine. >

There was a woman that went into my friends pharmacy and asked them for proof of flu vaccine, but didn’t want the actual vaccine. They didn’t do it for her, but she was a NICU nurse. >

I have family members who are L&D nurses and they claimed a religious exemption to skirt the covid vaccine. They also refuse the flu shot every year and sign waivers saying they understand if they get the flu their leave will be unpaid. They then rant about big pharma and doctors being morons who are paid puppets. I finally said if big pharma is so fucking evil and doctors are scum bags  then why the fuck did yall go into the nursing profession??? Aaaand crickets. >

IMO labor and delivery nurses are more likely to  think of nursing and bringing “the miracle of life into the world” as a calling because they’re religious.  Because of that, I’m not shocked that they are probably conservative anti vaxxers.  Maybe they aren’t conservative but big money says they are.  
It’s prevalent among the entire field though.  Before Covid I had a bunch of coworkers in a cardiac icu who said that they wouldn’t get the flu shot if it wasn’t mandatory.  Very troubling. >

Yep totally agree about the miracle of life part is why religious folks are drawn to it.  However, the family members who claimed a religious exemption aren't religious AT ALL. They lied and their hospitals were short staffed and couldn't prove one way or the other so they got away with it. To this day they cannot give any valid reasons for not getting a covid vaccine. They can't even give a good reason for not getting the flu shot outside of "I don't want to and you can't make me". >

"Children should get two doses of MMR vaccine, starting with the first dose at 12 to 15 months of age, and the second dose at 4 through 6 years of age."
This is why it is so important that people who can be vaccinated are vaccinated. Vaccine is not just about protecting ones self, its also about protecting those who are waiting to be vaccinated or for some medical reason, cannot be vaccinated. >

I'm so tired of the "we did our own research" crowd.
No, you didn't do your own research. You started with a belief and sought out information to confirm that belief.
Doing research involves starting with a hypothesis that you recognize may or may not be accurate, then collecting data in a neutral and objective way — that is, controlling for all reasonable variables so as to not influence the outcome of the results — in an effort to affirm or reject your hypothesis.
You didn't do that. You didn't do research. You Googled "evidence that vaccines cause autism" or "evidence that vaccines are dangerous" and believed vaccinesarethemarkofthebeast.net instead of peer-reviewed science.
It's a shame, too; children are dying because their parents — many of whom are alive because their parents chose to get vaccinated against measles, polio, and other deadly diseases — are putting them in harm's way. 
It's the height of modern hubris to reject well-documented scientific literature and the opinions of the overwhelming majority of medical professionals because you think you and your essential oil mom friends know better. >

I saw a new one today.  “Use something besides google.”  I assume this means Bing lol. >

YouTube (smh) >

All the most credible research comes from mommy tokkers. >

I remember seeing an article about how people actually use TikTok as a search engine and just... why? Wtf is wrong with people they think they can learn something from a 30 second video? >

This was inevitable. The anti-vax movement was previously for a certain segment of affluent, "Whole Foods" types. It's now far right orthodoxy. They'll be hit WAY harder with the consequences (based on what we saw from COVID). >


All of those cases were among unvaccinated children with no travel history, officials said, as Columbus Public Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts urged parents to vaccinate their children. 

Of course... >

But consider you can't get vaccinated until you're 1 year old. Infants are vulnerable even if you follow the vaccination schedule. >

Infants are just vulnerable in general. >

Which is why it is important for the village to protect them with herd immunity by getting vaccinated. >

Yup. 
It’s part of why so many kids died 100 years ago. 
Getting certain illnesses while being an infant is really serious stuff. 
Then we discovered germ theory and vaccines…and infant mortality dropped. 
But now we have anti-vaxx bullshitters messing everything up and undoing a century of progress. >

I've always thought the anti-vax movement gained so much traction due to the fact that we've more or less eradicated a lot of diseases through vaccination programs, allowing a whole slew of ill-informed people to think that they're safe from diseases that just aren't prevalent anymore. This might be the "find out" stage of the antivax "fuck around." >

Partly that, and partly it's been bankrolled by a few extremely rich psychopaths over the years. It isn't like a naturally occurring idea, one of the big pushes behind the anti-vax movement was a company trying to discredit existing vaccines to push their own (that was the whole 'vaccines cause autism' lie). Then there's a couple of investment bankers out of New York who kicked millions in to a PR campaign against vaccines as like a hobby or something, not sure what their deal is. Maybe they wanted to play Plague Inc with real people. >

Oprah fucked us over a huge amount by giving that damned "Vaccines cause Autism" shit a platform. >

Loads of people did. He was a real doctor and he had a study that not many people felt qualified to discard out of hand (although the people who were qualified and did discard didn't get anything like the same airtime).
The amount of damage a legitimately trained doctor can do if they decide to go full time into quackery and misinformation is scary. >

Andrew Wakefield is a horrible person who literally tortured autistic children with unnecessary and invasive tests. 
The bastard should have been jailed for life imo. >

Once it became clear what he was doing, and especially why, absolutely he should have been locked up. It's wild to me that no part of what he did is judged criminal. The dishonesty, the corruption, the abuse, the lives ruined. He is one of the worst people in the world. >

I wholly agree. 
He did extreme harm to those kids and continues to be a significant public health danger. 
Plus he pushed the narrative that autistic people are less-than/damaged. I take a lot of offense as an autistic person myself. >

And where did they go when their kids got the measles? Straight to their doctors or hospitals. Now they trust in medical technology. Theyll trust medicine and doctors for literally everything except fucking vaccines. They accidentally lop an arm off you can be damned sure theyll go to the hospital. Bleeding out of every hole? Hospital. Trouble breathing? Hospital. Cant get that cucumber out their ass? Hospital. Everything but damned vaccines as if the fucking measles vaccine wasnt around for decades already.  The logic just isnt there >

Parents who don't vaccinate their children should be prosecuted for child abuse and endangerment.  I am fucking tired of making exceptions for anti-science know nothings and their "closely held beliefs" that do nothing but needlessly spread suffering and misery. >

I have yet to see beliefs keep someone out of the hospital. However the opposite seems to be the case most of the time. >

Oh it keeps them out of hospital alright. They usually just have a faster track to a morgue. >

Which is all well and good, when it is not a communicable disease that they can spread to others. >

Except when children are involved. Otherwise yeh, isolate and die. Cool.
Edit:  spelling and reread your comment. Agree. Non communicable. >

Some parents tried it on their kids recently, didnt want blood from someone who’d been vaccinated. Their kids were taken away. >

Wasn't that NZ? I don't think the rest of the Western world is as tolerant of religious freedoms as the US. >

“Religious freedoms” is such a crock of shit. It’s license to subvert science for their own delusions. Religion isn’t a fix, it’s the problem. >

Even the Bible has sick people mask up. The people who are using their religion to avoid doing something that is in the best interest of everyone are not following that religion very well. >

If you want religion to be taken seriously, you need to police the people who abuse it. >


Columbus Public Health first announced an investigation into the outbreak on Nov. 9 after four confirmed measles cases were linked to a child care facility in Franklin County. All of those cases were among unvaccinated children with no travel history, officials said, as Columbus Public Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts urged parents to vaccinate their children. 
It so far appears that all of the children impacted by the outbreak are at least partially unvaccinated, meaning they have only received one dose of the necessary two for the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, known as MMR

So basically, only partially vaccinated kids are getting sick from being exposed to completely unvaccinated kids, who are acting as little germ factories and letting the diseases gain a foothold among these groups.
And yet anti vaxxers, for some reason, get very offended when we call them "plague rats"... >

BuT wE dOn't knOW WhaT's iN ThE VAccINe?
Fucken troglodytes. The information is available. Just because it's stuff you're too lazy to look up doesn't mean we don't know what's in it. >

Or there’s a thing in the vaccine that’s toxic (and this next part is very important) at high levels but is not toxic in the amounts present in the vaccine. The dose makes the poison. Even their precious essential oils can kill in high enough doses. There’s cyanide in apple skins for crying out loud. >

With their logic they shouldn't eat meat because undercooked meat can kill you. >

They also shouldn’t drink water since water toxicity is a thing! >

Kids don’t deserve it but the parents do. >

Why isn't unvaccination illegal yet? >

Because nutjobs would throw a hissy fit >

It's always the children who suffer most >

Pediatric nurse here!!!!
Get your kid’s vaccinations unless you want to spend your nights with me in a fucking pediatric intensive care with a tube shoved down your kid’s throat (my weekend!) it’s not fun. It’s living hell for parents (and healthcare workers).
These are the same parents that bitch and moan that i have to start an IV and draw labs on their sick kid when they come in crashing and can’t breathe. Yea…if you want your lil’ to live we gotta poke the shit outta him and it’s not fun.  You should had him poked with the vaccines in the clinic like your Dr recommended. 
I’ve taken care of all this…..Measles, Whooping Cough, Covid, RSV. Get your kids vaccinated. Don’t be stupid. Research shows they are very effective and have been for years🤷🏼‍♀️
Im so burnt out right now. Why is the general public so stupid? You’re all gonna lose your nurses and healthcare workers. Then what?!
Edit to add: I sound like a psycho bizo….sorry!  I do love my career and patients. I’m tired and frustrated. ✌🏻 >

No, you actually sound like a rational person. Refreshing. Also, thanksbfor sll you do. >

Not my comment but

So, you don't vaccinate your kids. That MMR is scary sounding after all. Your toddler gets measles. It all goes fine. Score one for the immune system. It's not overly pleasant, but they spend a week in bed with you nursing them and they seem fine. You almost forget about it by the time they start school. Such a bright child. Gets on well with other kids, enjoys reading time. They're very articulate for their age, all that crunchy shit paid off well.
They're going into their third year. Year Two, second grade, P3, whatever you call it. They've had the odd temperature over the summer and been a bit down in the dumps. Not behaving very well. Kids will be kids. They're forgetting things, but their dad can never remember where he left his car keys either. Must run in the family.
It's coming up to Christmas and they're having trouble seeing the Christmas lights on houses. Can't tell a reindeer from a polar bear. You think you've noticed them making some odd movements. Best take them to a doctor, you might not like vaccines but you're not an idiot. 
The GP is pretty switched on. You tell them about the memory loss and the funny movements on top of the sight thing. Say you're taking them to the optician but you know, better safe than sorry. They just aren't the same as they were six months ago. The doctor sends you to a local hospital for an MRI. Then they start talking about an EEG and have they had measles if they haven't had their MMR? It's not a strong memory now, but yes they did. They didn't have that bad a time of it and it was years ago.
Your child will be dead in a year. There is nothing anybody can do to help them. This started years ago with the tiny measles virus that was in them, see they got a mutated version. Vaccination prevents this, but in unvaccinated children it's a rare but real risk. They might last three years from this point, if they're lucky/unlucky. Your seven year old will develop dementia worse than your granny ever had. They'll jerk, writhe, go blind. Sometimes they'll die at this point, maybe during a seizure. If they don't, they'll gradually become paralysed and lose consciousness ending up in a persistent vegetative state. 
Eventually the system that makes your body tick along will fail. They'll just... stop. You think rabies is scary? This is like rabies but you're opting your child into the roulette.
That's SSPE. It's rare. It's 100% preventable. But the numbers are shaky and there's suggestion that it could get as many as 1 in 600 unvaccinated young children with measles. Or 1 in 5000 in the general population who catch it. It's extremely rare in countries that had essentially eradicated measles but so was measles and we've all seen how that can go.
Vaccinate your kids, fuckers. >

It's only going to get worse. Social media has been weaponized and it's only going to further degrade our society.
Russian bots were already spreading anti-vaxx propaganda even before covid, and covid only fueled that surge even more to the point where we don't even need those bots anymore. Our own communities are spreading it among themselves.
Fewer than half of Republicans now support requiring childhood vaccinations for infectious diseases >

Some Republicans in office want the Vaccine mandates in the Military to be dropped. ALL vaccines not just covid. You can guess which ones.. you know the ones that may be linked to Russian interest >

If I wanted to bring down a country from the inside out...
Make them dumb and submissive
Make them poor and hopeless
Make them sick and disengaged >

I think it’s safe to say Former Dr. Andrew Wakefield has permanently deformed the medical industry at this point. >

As a pediatric RN in Ohio, this shit is getting old. >

Sadly, the victims aren't. >

Anti vaccine bullshit has killed so many people. And the people responsible for peddling that crap will never face justice. It's depressing. >

Right wing religious anti-intellectualism will drag us back hundreds of years. >

Hopefully the measles will get them first >

Honestly this type of behavior is going to continue until people really see what kind of damage being non vaccinated can do.  
This is 82 kids.  Stats show 1 in 5 (!!) unvaccinated people will end up in the hospital if they get measles.  1 in 20 kids will get pneumonia. 
And as it spreads … 1 in 1000 will get encephalitis and will likely end up deaf or have other brain damage.  1 to 3 out of every thousand will die.  
And there other side effects and issues as well.  Future male fertility issues, problems for unvaccinated pregnant women who get the disease and on and on.   It’s not chicken pox. >

I got into an argument with a mom on the what to expect app who believed the side effect of atopic dermatitis was worse than the disease the vaccines protect against.
So I literally asked “are you saying you think having eczema is worse than getting polio”. And they said yes…
This whole debate is pointless. You can’t fight stupid. 🤯 >

What an idiot. My parents lived in mortal fear of polio in the 50s. When the vaccine was approved, it was free in the schools and the lines were around the block.
How quickly people forget. >

My FIL tells the story of getting his sugar cube like… once a week.
My mind was blown. They were trying to argue their child likely wouldn’t get paralyzed but eczema is a lifelong condition. And I said “yeah, a life long condition if you naturally have it, not as a side effect of the injection site… and it’s treated by lotion, not by learning how to use a wheelchair.”
Then they started talking about how vaccine derived polio is more common in Africa than wild polio… which yes, because wild polio has been eradicated from Africa… so all that is left is outbreaks in under vaccinated communities. It’s all bullshit and misdirection. Their argument comes down to being too stupid to understand you are too stupid to understand how it works. I am smart enough to know that I’m uneducated on how vaccines truly work. But the vaccine scientists aren’t… >

Any child that contracts an illness preventable from a vaccine, should have the legal right to sue their parents at age 18. >

Fuckin Ohio, man - not surprised. >

The usual suspect >

As a nurse, this whole attack on vaccine efficacy freaks me out. We barely skirted disaster, and instead of embracing vaccines we've normalized being adverse to modern medicine. 
Some American families have the same immunity as the poorest of nations, not going to have good outcome. >

What an odd coincidence >

Arrest the parents and take their kids away. 
We have dealt with these diseases. This is not about their kids. This about humanity and it’s progress against deadly and preventable contagion. >

As someone who believe in science and just happens to live in Ohio (with young children). I hate it here. 
Ps- local pediatricians are recommending to get the second dose of MMR sooner (as long as it is 28 days after the first)  My 17th month old just got hers yesterday. >

My brother and his wife didn’t get their kids the MMR vaccine, and I recently found out that they went to the family Christmas party knowing that half the house had the flu.
My father is convinced that you can’t be infectious if your symptoms appear mild. I’ll never understand what happened to these people I used to know so well. >

We were well on a path towards eradicating measles completely.
Then, Andrew Wakefield. >

I will never not recommend this video by hbomberguy on disgraced ex-Dr. Andrew Wakefield, one of the biggest pieces of shit in the last 40 years. However bad you think he is, he's worse. >

This is really sad. I genuinely hope this wakes parents up to the benefits of vaccines so we can avoid these in the future. >

Doubtful. These people intentionally did this. And others will follow suit. >

What? Consequences of actions? No way! >

A lot of yall are missing the fact that this article says "partially unvaccinated" which would make sense if the infected was a toddler who hasn't reached the age to be safely fully vaccinated, which in the article (if you actually read it) says 4-6 years old. These aren't all parents neglecting their children and anti-vaxxers. It's rare but it happens. I'd hate to be one of those parents and be included in this as if they did anything wrong considering their child's health. >

“We tried nothing and this keeps happening to us.”  I’m exhausted hearing these people complain about their misfortune when they caused it to themselves.  The poor children being abused so the parents can feel superior, or whatever, is horrible. >

Parents should be charged with negligence >

Fucking parents should be jailed, how reckless. Keep doing your own research idiots. >

Well, you did it MAGA folks! Another return to 1950's America. Congratulations. >

It's weird how the people most in love with the fifties hate all the parts that allowed for a strong middle class, like unions and higher taxes on wealth. If a higher standard of living isn't the part of the fifties they're trying to recreate, which part of pre-Civil Rights America is it they're so in love with I wonder? >

Well they're probably duped into thinking the standard of living was tied to all those restrictive social policies >

That’s exactly it. My dad will die on the hill that jobs don’t pay as much anymore because women started working instead of being stay at home wives. But Y’know, he’s totally not misogynistic and loves that women get to work, you just have to accept that it’s to the total detriment of society and that we’d all be better off if they just stayed in the kitchen. >

If we're to ignore sexism for a moment, from a purely economic standpoint, increasing the supply of something will reduce its value. Women working increases the supply of labor which will reduce the value (pay) of said labor. So if you look strictly at that piece of the equation you could make that argument and it might have even been true for a short time.
However...
He's missing a big chunk where at this point (and for at least a couple decades now) labor productivity per person has increased and demand for labor has caught up. At this very moment we're even in a high labor demand situation. So even if there was a minor point to that initially it doesn't answer the wage issues we have now. Not to mention the many other factors it ignores, such as fully adding the second half of the population to the consumer pool regardless of marital status, thus increasing demand for products, thus increasing demand for jobs, etc.
So even if you want to accept sexism it's still not the economic answer to wage stagnation. >

This country has lost its mind with this stuff.  We live the lives with do because of modern medicine and vaccination. 
Nervous about a fairly new vaccine you feel was pushed too fast?  I actually get that.  Hate the pharmaceutical industry?  Right there with you, but not vaccinating your children against diseases we’ve conquered is insane. >

Thank you, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey! >

I worked as a nurse in a refugee camp in another country. Few of the refugees were vaccinated. We had a measles epidemic. I will never forget it. People should see what happens when you have measles, also the horrible things that can happen if you're really unlucky: encephalitis, brain damage, deafness. 
People have been spoiled by their good fortune, good health, good luck.  They believe if they eat organic, do their cleanses or whatever bullshit is in vogue at the moment, they can control this. They need to see movies of babies in iron lungs, kids gone  deaf, kids in ICU or in graves because their parents are too lazy or think they are smarter than every decent doctor on earth. They make me crazy.
Edit: Or better yet, let them hear the parents whose children are unable to get vaccinated because of an accident of birth. Location. Poverty. They know. >

Medieval shit coming because antivax jackasses.... >

If you don't want your kid to get the measles. Get the vaccine. >

The heartbreaking part is that babies don't get their first shot until a year old, and aren't fully covered until 5ish years old. These outbreaks hurt and kill babies of parents who are provax. >

I bet the Venn diagram of those anti-vaxx parents and people who cheer on arresting abortion providers for killing babies is a perfect circle. >

And sadly.. It's because of so many unvaccinated kids that these diseases can propagate and spread.
Of course you can't convince the antivaxx crowd that having more people in the population at higher risk of a untrained immune response, allowing the disease to have more time to infect and spread is the whole fucking point of vaccinations... Suppressing the capacity for it to spread because the majority have a better immune response from vaccines training your body's natural immunity to fight it faster and more agressivly... 
Oh no.. They read about it on the internet and trust other idiots instead of medical professionals who've spend their carriers studying diseases. >

I really pin the blame for this on Lancet and it's publication of the fraudulent study linking MMR vaccine to autism published in 1998.  It took 12 years for the study to be retracted!
From the WHO website on the history of measles vaccine: "A minor setback for the success of the measles vaccination programme occurred in 1998, when a fraudulent research paper was published in ‘The Lancet’, asserting a link between the MMR vaccine and autism without any robust scientific evidence. 
The influence of this paper, along with systemic misinformation by anti-vaccination groups in high-income countries, resulted in a drop in vaccination rates, below the level required for community protection, which caused a resurgence in measles cases in  England and Wales, as well as parts of the USA and Canada.
In 2010 the British General Medical Council ruled that the study’s lead author engaged in misconduct. The paper was formally retracted by ‘The Lancet’, and its author was banned from practising medicine." >

Own the libs by killing your kids! >

Ohio...?
Isn't this the same state that demanded a 10 year old incest victim remain pregnant until term?
Cool state. Is it one of putin's? >

Sadly, I know one of the moms that this is affecting...  ALL 3 of her children are unvaccinated.  2 of them have it right now.  She just so happened to be a proud member of "women for trump" even though she deleted that from her facebook. >

This is great. Humans really be upping the entertainment factor to life these days. Idk if it was always this way or I just didn't realise when I was a kid.
This week in my city tens of thousands have been without running water for days (maybe even close to a week) due to 2 nights being too cold. The officials have told us very little, didn't get put the boil water advisory map til today (my fiancée likely has E. Coli as we're one of the fews with water) and there are rumors that they don't even have the blueprints to the water system due to stiffing the engineer who made them. Money goes into the city and disappears. Where does it go? Hmm. It's not like they're gonna give us toilets or water or information. 
Yesterday (today?idk) , Andrew Tate got himself arrested (hahahaha) for getting mad and sending a video to a young woman activist who he tried to start shit with and then she really didn't even care at all. He got arrested in Romania for going there specifically because he thought he could get away with his sex crimes easier. 
Now today, I learn that the measles are likely coming back in the usa because people won't vaccinate their kids anymore. If I get it despite being vaccinated, I'll be in the hospital for weeks again due to my underlying nuero issues and could suffer lifelong complications. But that's nothing compared to losing an infant child to measles or an immunocompromised loved one.
Everyday I think it would take such little effort for us to not be terrible. Vaccinate your kids, don't rape women, use tax money to fix the water system rather than it dissapear into pockets. But hey, whatever, I got my own slice of paradise in the middle of all of this. I look forward to what the next few days bring. More hilarious arrests of scumbags would be fun. Maybe someone local getting caught pooping in a bush. I'll just avoid the dead children articles. I got my vaccinations, there's nothing else I can do about it. >

So you’re saying half of them ARE vaccinated? Looks like vaccines don’t work! I AM VERY SMART. AKA A FREE THINKER! /S >

No, half were unvax'd infants and toddlers. The rest were unvax'd or partially vax'd older kids.
“It so far appears that all of the children impacted by the outbreak are at least partially unvaccinated, meaning they have only received one dose of the necessary two for the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, known as MMR, although four children still have an unknown vaccination status. Children are recommended to get their first dose between 12 and 15 months of age and the second between the age of 4 and 6. ” >

Jackass plague rats pumping out more plague rats. There are too many stars on our fucking flag. >

folks who haven’t passed a science class since high school can fuck right off with their “own research” >

Looks like the no-vax people will find it via their kids why modern societies vaccinate. >

Too bad these kids don't have parents that love them enough to vaccinate them against preventable diseases. I'm endlessly thankful my mom loved me enough to get me fully vaxxed as a baby/kid. >

My husbands Urgent Care just shut down bc a mother brought her child in with measles….obviously unvaccinated. >

Wait…you mean to tell me that consistent, timely vaccination had essentially eliminated a dangerous illness…and that it resurged when people decided they knew better than science?  Get out of town. 🤦🏻‍♂️ >

I feel sorry for the kids, not for their parents. >

So if an antivaxxer gets sick,  do they go to the Dr?  They don't believe in science,  so do they just eat herbs and wish for the best or what >

CPS should be involved any time a child ends up with something like measles. Denial of proper medical care, which includes vaccines, is a form of child abuse. >

Thank you Andrew Wakefield for sowing distrust in vaccines up for money. Please burn in hell. >

Ohio living up to its reputation >

Math being what it is that's somewhere around 1 in 5 kids who could die, or 15-20 kids , dead. Because Mommy and Daddy are too stupid for their kids to live. 
Perhaps I'm not being sensitive, but frankly but maybe shame isn't a bad thing after all, I'm tired of hearing people die on account of preventable stupidity.
Maybe instead of Darwin Awards, we should hand out Runner-Up Awards, A golden condom , and the "Wallace Awards" for people dumb enough to kill their own children with shitty decisions. Post the names of the children...and their parents and what particular act of stupidity got them killed. >

"I did my research" means your kids are probably going to get the measles. >

Vaccinate your kids you morons >

Fuck anti vaccine your fucking up a working system. >

Pediatrician here 
Fuck this bullshit. COVID was gasoline on the anti-vaxx fire >

I feel like Ohio’s been squaring up with Florida for craziest state lately >

This is disgusting. Not only are anti- Vaxers abusing their children, they are also putting everyone else at risk. If that’s not a good definition of POS I don’t know what is >

Doctors need to start being like "the lord told me in a dream that your baby needs measles vaccine." >

anti-vaxxers are the plague >

Antivaxxer parents should have to pay out of pocket for these medical expenses. >

I have lived in Ohio for a year and can confirm these are some of the dumbest and willfully ignorant people i have come across. >

Oh. Wow. How unforseen. Not vaccinating children should be child endangerment. They have almost no say in their own health and well-being. >

I don’t understand the hysteria about vaccines that have been around for generations.  The whackos refusing to vaccinate their kids against things like MMR had those same vaccines when THEY were children.  You couldn’t go to school without them.  These diseases kill and disfigure kids-  vaccines don’t.  The level of ignorance is astounding.  And a kid who dies of a preventable disease?  Parents should be charged. >

We’re talking about measles in 2022. God help us all. >

Well, you reap what you sow.  But more importantly, you sow what you reap.  I personally have right leaning antivax relatives who died from COVID.  I used to feel sorry for them.  You just get numb to dumb after too long. >

Bad Parents doesnt deserve Kids >

Vaccinate your fucking kids >

I’m starting to think “do you own research” isn’t working out so well >

Children suffering because their parents are absolute fucking idiots. They should be charged with child endangerment and thrown into prison. I'm sick of pandering to these morons. Draw the fucking line. >

I'm afraid the only thing that will reverse this trend is unneeded child deaths. Here's hoping I'm wrong. >

I was unvaccinated and got the measles.  That sucked.  My daughter is 100% vaccinated.