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Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk

New submitter haroldmandel writes in with a story about the increase of certain diseases in school-age children due to parents not having their kids vaccinated. "Parents nervous about the safety of vaccinations for their children may be causing a new problem: the comeback of their grandparents' childhood diseases, reports a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Despite the successes of childhood immunizations, wrote Penn Nursing researcher Alison M. Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, in the American Journal of Public Health, controversy over their safety has resulted in an increasing number of parents refusing to have their children vaccinated and obtaining legally binding personal belief exemptions against vaccinations for their children."

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  1. Re:SCAREMONGERING. by x1n933k · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm looking at a quick list of vaccinations for from my local clinic that range between 20$ and 120$. 5 millions kids in California seems like a nice chunk of change.

  2. Re:There's a shock... by bluefoxlucid · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Interesting. So in addition to the 100% chance that I won't allow some doctor to penetrate me with a sharp, pointy object, there's also a 5%-20% chance that penetration won't result in anything more than having it in me for a few seconds before it squirts out a couple ccs of juice and he pulls it out--which more affects the rest of the population, sans the people that aren't opposed to the penetration but don't want strange people squirting fluids inside of them.

    I know, they all say it's just a little prick, but it hurt so much the first time I never let anyone stick another one in me again.

  3. No, they're right! by argormar · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    By getting vaccinated, I am dependent on everyone injecting poison into their blood just to stay alive.

    By not getting vaccinated, I am dependent on evolution to cull the vulnerable so that future generations are immune to each disease naturally without having to inject countless cocktails of poison, genetically modified crap, adjuvents, and toxic preservatives into our bloodstream.

    Either we can have the natural lottery of the odd individual be destine to die, or we can intervene and ensure that our gene pool continues to degenerate to the point that everyone is completely dependent on the medical industrial complex simply to survive.

    It is obvious to me which path has more suffering and dependence. Vaccines, it does the medical industrial complex good.

  4. Re:They're stupid by operagost · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Please explain for all the stupid people in the room how, if student A is vaccinated but student B is not, that this will make student A sick.

    "Your freedom to swing your arm ends at my nose."

    This means the exact opposite in this context unless you can prove that an unvaccinated individual can make a vaccinated one sick.

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