What will happen if scientists discover a vaccine for autism?
Sadly it’s unlikely a vaccine for stupidity will be found any time soon.
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Block Island would work.
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Exile would also be a bad idea. It’s great for schadefreude, but in reality it could just mean the viral equivalent of superbugs, as @Apetivist has already pointed out above.
So, no, let’s not put all antivaxxers on an island, please. Viruses are already tough little buggers. No need to give them fertile ground to multiply and mutate.
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Well, here comes the second wave of the anti-vaxers push to allow themselves to infect others.
First Measles, now -
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Next they’ll be telling us that milkleg is natural and a good thing.
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I think Rubella is the third wave…
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At least they can’t bring back smallpox 
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Had this last year locally, same kind of story.
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Every person who says something along the lines “I had the measles when I was a kid and ended up just fine!” really needs a serious lesson in what “selection bias” means.
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Preaching to the choir largely here, but good quick review.
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Don’t front a challenge to be accepted. 
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“All of our students are required to have two MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccines by their second semester, with an exemption for religious reasons available,” Carney said.
Speaking as a religious person myself, why the everloving fuck is there a religious exemption available? I’m pretty sure there aren’t religious exemptions to seatbelt laws, or fire codes, and for a very good reason.
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There is some good news out there.
BTW, I’m gonna gritch about a pet peeve of mine here. I keep hearing “authoritative voices” on the news (Anthony Fauci most recently) saying that “if your child has both doses of MMR they will not contract measles.” While any bet you will win 97% of the time is a pretty sure thing, when you are talking about hundreds of thousands of exposures, 3% is a real number. There have been, are and will be those who got vaccinated and caught the damn bug anyway. When authority figures speak in absolutes like that, the antivaxxers only have to find one case, not hard to do, and poof the authority figure is proven wrong. “See, you can’t trust them. They lie!” The vaccine is highly effective, but for real effect, you have to have herd immunity. That is just the way it works.
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While you’re at it, get boosters before the munchkins are born. Because rubella does horrible things in utero.
When my daughter informed me of my imminent grandparenthood, as soon as I got back home it was down to the clinic to get all of the boosters on record. I’d already had several prior to a trip to India, but quite a few others had lapsed. Contrary to popular opinion, immunity wanes with years – it’s not just that we’re older, it’s that there have been a lot of years since the last exposure.
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Way to rock the population perspective, friend!
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Because some religious folk think that their beliefs come before any inherent public safety, greater good, or other people’s inalienable human rights.
Let’s go with ‘survivorship bias’ too
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Non-Jewish asshole interpreting the Torah for the poor ignorant Jews who “just don’t get it.” Ditto for Buddhist, Islamic and Christian scripture. I just can’t even…
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