Yeah, I think this one is past the tipping point.
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I know the press needs to be all careful. I wouldnât bet money on it though.
Anti-Vaxxers started advocating violence against doctors and legislators some time ago. Now theyâre heating up the rhetoric and starting to commit terrorism. Not major acts yet, but theyâre headed in that direction
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I have had antivaxxers threaten to picket my office and âmake my life miserable.â Nothing came of it, but it does have an effect on how one chooses to advocate for a position, it does.
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California needs to stomp on this shit hard. On the other hand:
CA has the population, but the reddest of the red states have the political idiocy to bring on a real problem. And no, that has not happened yet. Not quite. But it is coming. âSlouching toward Texas to be born.â (Apologies)
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Time was the backwards States had the highest vaccination rates
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Wenn dem Esel zu wohl ist, dann geht er aufs Eis.
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Not a single county in 2018 came close to the 92% threshold. In fact, 40 of the 72 counties had immunization rates below 80%.
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Why does it have to be âuntil my child gets really sick.â Every fucking time. And she still wonât encourage vaccination, only says she âlearned her lesson.â
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I think flat-earthers should be insulted, unlike anti-vaxxers theyâre not baby-killers.
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Smart people learn from the mistakes of others; regular people learn from their own mistakes; and idiots donât learn at all.
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âThere are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.â
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers never said that.
Itâs funny because itâs a quote about doing research or making a mistake, and then it has a false attribution.
He did sayâŚ
A Man only learns by two things, one is reading, and the other is association with smarter people.
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Growing up, virtually all sayings like this were attributed to Will Rogers, Yogi Berra, or Mark Twain.
I think we knew those names were just placeholders for the type of person who would say such clever and yet common-sensical things, but maybe everyone was more gullible than I realized at the time. (Me included!)
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I always try to remember something Yogi actually said (really),
âI really didnât say everything I said.â
- 1986 February 24, âColor Yogi a Happy Guyâ by Steve Marcus, Section Sports, Start Page 92, Newsday [Nassau and Suffolk Edition], Long Island, New York.
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Kenya becomes third country to adopt worldâs first malaria vaccine
That could be big, especially since malaria problem areas might follow increased temperatures.
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IdiotsâŚ
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Not measles. Possibly worse.
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Jesus. I once interviewed a woman whoâd been in an iron lung for 40? years. Because of polio. She died just a few years ago, by that stage having been incapacitated for 60ish years. Only able to move one finger on one hand, living in a nappy (diaper), in a hospital, all those years. To my privileged, probably ableist way of thinking, thatâs an absolute fucking nightmare. And without victim-blaming, a preventable fucking nightmare. (The vaccine didnât yet exist when she contracted polio.)
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Holy shitâŚ
I have been watching with horror the reemergence of polio in Nigeria after Boko Haram declared the vaccine unislamic, along with Pakistan and Afghanistan, but had missed this announcement.
http://polioeradication.org/where-we-work/nigeria/
Shit, just shit.
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