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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
Actually, the most passionately anti vax person I have ever met was an incredibly intelligent and compassionate person....who's own son I met doing a service call at their home. He was unfortunate enough to have an incredibly severe reaction to the MMR vaccine that left him with permanent brain damage and learning disabilty, and other serious physical side effects. Since it happened almost immediately after the vaccine injection, before they even left the clinic, there was no question as to the cause. So, not everyone who is against vaccines is actually a 'frickin idiot' 'stupid' 'low IQ' and all the other ignorant and nasty things that have been said so far on this thread (and as an extension of all the other threads on the topic). The sheer volume of ignorant vitriol against people who hold a contrary view, reminds me of Catherine McKenna having 'no time for any idiots' who are 'deniers' etc etc etc.
And again, for the record, I acknowledge the effectiveness of vaccines in eliminating polio, small pox, and many other diseases. I just hate the brutal ignorant stereotyping that goes on. There actually are people who have had their children grossly damaged by vaccines. I've met a couple of them. The paltry 'compensation' they received from the pharma co and medical liability insurance was pathetic when weighed against the irreparable damage done to their child.
Maybe everyone could just express their opinion without being an ignorant thoughtless dick head?
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I would still call this person you refer to out, if he or she is passionately campaigning to stop vaccines. Yes there are serious consequences, rarely to vaccines. This will likely never change. Just as there are serious but rare consequences to antibiotics. If you have bacterial pneumonia, should I passionately convince you not to take antibiotics? Watch you lay in bed and cough phlegm until you die, like in the good old days?
This is more of a 'problem' with vaccines, because you are healthy when you take them, and because they are so successful, we've forgotten what some of these disease do to people.
This family should get our sympathy, and financial support, and we should compassionately listen to their concerns, and it should push us to get better and better vaccines. But if they can't see the situation for what it is, and they try to convince others to not vaccinate their kids... well then I would still ask them, gently, politely, to shut up.