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That something being the abject stupidity of people who don't get themselves or their children vaccinated.
Today, on facing pages of the opinions/editorials section of the local newspaper, there are two columns discussing the recent measles outbreak and how these parents who don't vaccinate their kids are pretty stupid. The first column was by mostly liberal Leonard Pitts, Jr. (whose articles I have linked to before) and the second column was by mostly conservative Kathleen Parker (who I'm fairly sure I've never linked to before now, unless it was to mock her, because the vast majority of her columns are usually pretty damn stupid, this one here being a rare exception). Both of these columns, among other things, take to task recent statements made by Chris Christie and Rand Paul (though Parker's column, naturally, takes a somewhat more conciliatory, mitigating tone than Pitts's does about those statements).
All I can say about the measles outbreak is... well, what are these fucking idiots going to do when something truly terrible like small pox or polio comes roaring back as well? (Not to say that measles isn't already pretty terrible itself.) Die, I guess? *shrug* Maybe there's a Darwin Award in it for them?
The truly sad thing about it, though, is that it's more the kids of these moronic parents who are being afflicted by this shit, rather than the moronic parents themselves, since most of them probably got their vaccinations as kids. The biggest victims of all are the kids who are still too young for the vaccines, even if the parents want them to have it, or the ones who are otherwise ineligible for the vaccines due to other medical issues. Should these people have to suffer thanks to the asininity of parents who, for whatever imbecilic reasons, don't get their own children vaccinated? I say no, no they shouldn't. The right to swing your fist ends where my nose beings. Similarly your right not to vaccinate your children ends where the right of my (hypothetical) kids to not unnecessarily catch diseases from yours begins.
Today, on facing pages of the opinions/editorials section of the local newspaper, there are two columns discussing the recent measles outbreak and how these parents who don't vaccinate their kids are pretty stupid. The first column was by mostly liberal Leonard Pitts, Jr. (whose articles I have linked to before) and the second column was by mostly conservative Kathleen Parker (who I'm fairly sure I've never linked to before now, unless it was to mock her, because the vast majority of her columns are usually pretty damn stupid, this one here being a rare exception). Both of these columns, among other things, take to task recent statements made by Chris Christie and Rand Paul (though Parker's column, naturally, takes a somewhat more conciliatory, mitigating tone than Pitts's does about those statements).
All I can say about the measles outbreak is... well, what are these fucking idiots going to do when something truly terrible like small pox or polio comes roaring back as well? (Not to say that measles isn't already pretty terrible itself.) Die, I guess? *shrug* Maybe there's a Darwin Award in it for them?
The truly sad thing about it, though, is that it's more the kids of these moronic parents who are being afflicted by this shit, rather than the moronic parents themselves, since most of them probably got their vaccinations as kids. The biggest victims of all are the kids who are still too young for the vaccines, even if the parents want them to have it, or the ones who are otherwise ineligible for the vaccines due to other medical issues. Should these people have to suffer thanks to the asininity of parents who, for whatever imbecilic reasons, don't get their own children vaccinated? I say no, no they shouldn't. The right to swing your fist ends where my nose beings. Similarly your right not to vaccinate your children ends where the right of my (hypothetical) kids to not unnecessarily catch diseases from yours begins.
