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Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.

This approach means a lot of dead and paralyzed kids. You can eliminate a lot of infectious disease if everybody who can gets vaccinated. You can't when 10% of the population refuses.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

anyone who refuses to get their kids vaccinated should have their kids taken away for neglect period.

[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Buddy a child cannot consent to die.

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

Measles: remember me?!

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Looks like they'll need a manufacturer to jump into the iron lung market.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm quite sure that they have already broken ground on the manufacturing facility and begun research on how to capture the coming iron-lung boom.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

They're probably also organizing polio parties, to make sure there's enough demand.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I think they call them "health pods" now.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I guess they'll be getting medbeds of a sort...

[–] pilferjinx@piefed.social 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can these assholes be charged with manslaughter or held liable for damages if they infect someone?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Other forms of accountability are worth considering.

[–] pilferjinx@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, okay, sure. If some unvaccinated person gave you measles and you ended up permanently maimed, or even died, what form of accountability would you like to see play out?

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

How many less of these boomer fuckwads would exist if their parents hadn’t vaccinated them?

Maybe all the vaccines buy-in in the 50s was a mistake.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This will kill and cripple kids. Those people are murderers and abusers.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

They’re selfish.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mid terms won’t save us from this. This comes from decades of right wing propaganda. There’s no rolling this back until we start reprogramming them.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, ultimately it means changing the national media diet. That's going to mean running left-of-center mass media and gaining control over social media feed ranking.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The stupid conservative brainstems should get that printed up for hats and bumper stickers:

"Rejecting Decades of Science"

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 5 months ago

I'm wondering how this will affect insurance claims filing? The USA is already a couple of ICD manuals behind the WHO, will they even matter in a few years?