Anti-vaxxer asks how she can keep her unimmunized daughter safe. The Internet has some ideas

[Demovictory9]

Anti-vaxxer asks how she can keep her unimmunized daughter safe. The Internet has some ideas.


An anti-vaxxer mom, worried about a measles outbreak, turned to her fellow vaccine truthers on Facebook for advice this week. What should she do to protect her unvaccinated 3-year-old?

Some of the suggestions she received in the comments did not appear to be from the anti-vaxx community:

"Bring her to the edge of the flat earth. The air is cleaner there."

"Have you tried thoughts and prayers?"

"Build a wall around her and make the vaccinated people pay for it. Sending my thoughts and prayers."

"Did you try sharing her picture on Facebook with the caption '1 like equal one prayer'?"

When the post was picked up on Twitter, the responses were just as brutal.

https://m.sfgate.com/science/article/Anti-vaxxer-vaccine-measles-immunize-outbreak-13581343.php

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Many good memes.

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[secondwind]

3. My niece in Miami is an anti-vaccer. Her

two daughters, 4 and 7, wear the same necklace that this boy has around his neck. I wonder what it means.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. These stupid people infuriate me. Holding helpless

Children hostage to their idiocy. It should be considered child neglect to refuse to vaccinate your child and if you refuse you should be deemed an irresponsible parent and have the child removed from your custody.

[TomSlick]

4. Agreed.

Failing to refuse to vaccinate a child is child abuse. For the safety of the child, s/he must be removed from their parents' custody.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. We clearly DO NOT agree on this point. To quote you:

Failing to refuse to vaccinate a child is child abuse.

This statement is contrary to my point and is in direct opposition to it. If this statement is indeed your tack on the subject, I am not your ally, TomSlick.

[TomSlick]

6. I don't see where we disagree.

You said: "It should be considered child neglect to refuse to vaccinate your child and if you refuse you should be deemed an irresponsible parent and have the child removed from your custody."

With both are saying that failing to vaccinate is child neglect - a form of child abuse - and that the child should be removed. Where are we in disagreement?

[PTWB]

7. Maybe he misread your post?

[littlemissmartypants]

8. Exact quote from you:

Failing to refuse to vaccinate

Failure to refuse to vaccinate means not to vaccinate due to the double negative. That's how I read it. Apparently that's not what you meant to say. I'm guessing you meant failure to vaccinate not "failure to refuse" to vaccinate.

[ornotna]

9. It's a minor typo

It's easy to see you two are on the same page.

[TomSlick]

10. Ouch.

Failure to edit before hitting "post." I vacillated between "failure" and "refusal" and ending up saying both.

What I meant to say was that refusal, or maybe failure, to vaccinate a child disqualifies as a parent.

(That's why no pleading leaves my office until someone else has proof read.)

[Poiuyt]

11. Always proofread

[TomSlick]

13. That goes on the office wall over the printer.

[Poiuyt]

14. Grate!

Eye all Waze yews spell Czech my self.

[Aristus]

12. Back when I took pediatric patients, I told anti-vaxxer parents:

"Get your kids vaccinated or get out."

My boss backed me up.

It was a very satisfying thing to do. Anti-vaxxer butthurt improved an otherwise unpleasant experience.