![]() Now you have anti-vaccination groups, Ted Cruz supporters, Go Fund Me accounts raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for bigoted pizza places, and ISIS successfully using social media to recruit morons. With the Internet, you can find a community from the safety of your own home. You had to know a secret handshake, or approach a situation delicately, lest you be branded by the scarlet letter of your ignorance. I watched a documentary on the anti-vaccination movement, and every single person began the reason behind their stance with: “I got on Google…”Īnd therein lies the problem: Google allows people to find arguments to support their beliefs, reality be damned.īack in the day, if you were dumb, racist, or held any number of erroneous and isolating viewpoints, you probably had a difficult time finding like-minded miscreants to associate with. What a game-changer the Internet has been for dumb people a tool that can spread misinformation as far and wide as it does porn. Of course there were anti-vaccination people around before 2000. The realization hit me like only an “I should have had a V8” moment can. ![]() The response to that was: “I’m sure there were anti-vaccination people around before 2000.” So, returning to the Facebook post, I wrote my findings and tossed in the snide remark: “Before the year 2000, there weren’t anti-vaccination idiots running around ruining things for everyone…” Vaccinations had eliminated the disease, which to a rational person would be cause for celebration. ![]() ![]() That means not only was no one dying from it, no one was even getting sick because of it. Apparently, they are inconsistent in their statistical fears.)Īh, “But no one died from measles during that time, and 108 > 0, tough guy!”Įxcept that according to the CDC, in the year 2000 (say that in a high pitched voice while imagining Conan O’Brien holding a flashlight under his chin, if you must): Measles was considered eradicated in America. (My idiot friends who fear vaccinations do indeed get behind the wheel of the much more dangerous automobile. Hell, it absolutely means you have a much more enormous chance of getting in an auto accident before you do having a vaccination reaction. That means you have a greater chance of getting attacked by a shark or hit by lightning than dying via vaccination. Given that in 108 cases something went horrifically wrong and a person died, that awful circumstance happened .000309% of the time. ![]() For the sake of fun, say only 35,000,000 of them were vaccinated. So over a 12-year period, that results in 48,000,000 babies. In the 2000s, roughly 4 million babies a year were born in America. Gee, which option is safer, vaccination, or not? And people call me dumb for not vaccinating…īored, and wanting to defend my belief in science over nonsense, I looked up a few facts: I was tagged in a post on Facebook one of the idiots I know hit me up with the following rhetoric:Īccording to the CDC, from 2000 to 2012 Measles caused zero deaths in America, while vaccinations killed 108 people. The last bullet point is a growing bone of contention in America, because sheep like to follow charlatans like “The Food Babe” and her crusade against “toxins.” They’re labeled as such, because they believe idiotic things like: I have a couple friends best described as “idiots.” ![]()
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