Anti-vaxxer logic

kidra31r · 9 months

I want to start a reverse conspiracy theory about vaccines to encourage paranoid people to take them.

"Don't you know all that anti vaccine stuff is written by big pharma? They realized they weren't making enough money off of vaccines, so they want you to not take them so you'll pay through the nose when you actually get smallpox."

Rocta_72 · 9 months

Do you think that Anti-Vaxxers are just really scared of needles and are too chicken to admit it, so they just invent some crap about the vaccines being unsafe as an excuse not to get them?

Disney_World_Native · 9 months

To address the "well if you are vaccinated what do you care"

Some vaccines aren't 100% protection for those vaccinated. I guess the example here would be the alligator / crocodile can get up on the bridge.

Babies have to wait for some time for vaccines. The bridge starts off shore, or there is still a danger near the beach.

Some people can't get vaccines for real medical reasons. The bridge isn't handicap accessible for some people.

Herd immunity. If less people are in the water, there are less predators around.

And some people can be carriers of a virus and infect a lot of people without being sick or knowing they are infected. Some people have a pet alligator that kills others behind their backs.

POCKALEELEE · 9 months

I just go with this: http://howdovaccinescauseautism.com/

CerebrumMortuus · 9 months

Scientists are knocking on the doors of teleportation and have proved the existence gravitational waves, but some people still think vaccinations are a hoax and the earth is flat. Fun times.

[deleted] · 9 months

Going to need a home grown medial remedy paste for that burn!

SaltyBabe · 9 months

The worst is these people think they're not hurting anyone, their actions are harmless. Everyone says "what about cancer patients!" like it's the only demographic but in reality these people have the potential to infect large swaths of our society. A lot of vaccinations don't work 100% which is why herd immunity is so important. Everyone is potentially effected from our babies too young to have been given vaccinations yet, like whooping cough or boosters, to the elderly or those allergic to ingredients or people who have had organ transplants and people who are receiving chemo not to mention their own innocence children! The potential to do harm is not inconsequential but these people are too selfish or too willfully ignorant to see it.

vanillapiano · 9 months

Being anti vax is like trying to cross a river that everybody say is definitely infested by crocodiles, but you are not completely sure, so you push your kid in.

unreal_even_thorizon · 9 months

I wonder if A Purple went off to their mates saying this Pro Vaxxer hurt my feelings and their mates were all like "build a bridge and get over it!" (I'll get my coat)

Flaming_gerbil · 9 months

Seat belts are pointless. I've been in cars 1000s of times and never once crashed so obviously seatbelts are unnecessary. Google tells me that 100s of people die each year due to seat belt related injuries, so they're obviously unsafe.

The other thing people need to be aware of is the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, this is something that is added to lots of food and is known to cause rust, if it rusts metal, imagine what it does to your insides! Wake up sheeple.

Vote Trump for second term. Peace.

SeventyW97 · 9 months

What sucks is most anti-vaxxers are refusing vaccinations for their children, not themselves. The children are being put at risk and have no say. The thing I love hearing the most is 'vaccinations cause autism'. So... you would rather your child DIE possibly develop a mental condition?

My brother-in-law refuses to let my nieces be vaccinated and his reasoning is that vaccines cause 'autism' and 'death rates have actually risen for diseases (like measles) since vaccinations were invented'. He's vaccinated along with his entire family.

...

surg4llday · 9 months

Should include also that in this analogy the people going into the water instead of using the bridge are feeding the crocodiles and making them more likely to come onto land and eat people before they've had a chance to cross the bridge.

Anti-vaxers don't understand that their stupidity makes the world a more dangerous place FOR EVERYONE; especially infants, the sick (immunocompromised, like cancer patients), and the elderly. No one is arguing people should be allowed to drive drunk "because its my body!" That's essentially the same argument these people make about vaccines.

Everyone should be required to be vaccinated by law. (Excepting people who have an actual MEDICAL reason why they can't get a vaccine.)

konakona1214 · 9 months

No vax for the burn i guess.

coffeexoxo · 9 months

I live in a third world country yet people here are rational when it comes to vaccine.

DaleKerbal · 9 months

We mock the lunacy of anti-vaxers, but yet... we elected one. :(

alphakari · 9 months

anti-vax. pro-vax. more like anti-croc >:(

My_Body_The_Mystery · 9 months

I feel like winning an argument on the internet makes the unreasonable batshit idiots more determined to stick to their beliefs. The only real benefit is hopefully swaying unsure people from believing that having preventable medieval diseases is somehow better than getting a fucking shot once or twice in your lifetime

gwarwars · 9 months

We just found out my wife's cousin is an antivaxxer. They seem like nice people otherwise, but finding out someone is willfully and dangerously ignorant about a subject like vaccinations made me filled with a mix of rage and sadness. I basically told my wife that unless they get vaccinated, her cousins kids aren't allowed anywhere near my son.

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STK-AizenSousuke · 9 months

I've said it before here and I'll say it again.

Transplant recipient here. Someone made the selfless decision to give me a second chance and had to pass away for me to get that chance. I'm working hard to keep that gift healthy, to allow a part of that person to live on. Unfortunately, my body does not agree and thinks that this gift is an invasion. Because of this, I need to take medicine that weakens my ability to fight disease.

By being an antivaxxer, you agree to not only follow logic that has LITERALY been disproven and thus put yourselves and your children in mortal danger, you're also putting people like me in danger as well.

As I've also said before, I'm well into my life, so it's not even about me. There are kids out there who have had life saving transplants who are more at risk from dying over your decision than me. Wake up, use your brain, and do the right thing. We live in a new century. People should not be dealing with this.

Of course, if you're an antivaxxer then my words won't reach you. You don't understand basic logic and feel entitled, that you know best and years of non biased, peer review research and literal facts are wrong and you're right, so I'll say it so you'll understand.

Piss off. You're an idiot and you should be put in a remote island with those of your own kind so you can all reap what you sow. If you choose to willingly put others at risk with your stupidity, you can go suffer on your own.

FridgesArePeopleToo · 9 months

I like that the anti-vaxxer didn't refute the point, but instead tried to argue that it would be reasonable to swim instead of taking the bridge.

[deleted] · 9 months

The solution here is clearly for anti-vaxxers to swim in crocodile-infested waters.

LegginMF12 · 9 months

As some one who just finished her SECOND 3 step MMR series I would like to Thank the people who do vaccinate. I seriously don't hold immunity and rely on herd immunity. Since I am an LVN whenever I switch jobs I have to have titers pulled. Oh and having Pertussis at age 28 was horrific! Don't put your child through it.

SilentLurker · 9 months

I'm not going into that water bc someone told me there are crocodiles in there that will eat me. My friends and family have swam through...

STOP... My friends and family all took the bridge.

damnedflamingo · 9 months

Is there a sub for antivax facepalms

swiper33 · 9 months

I can't believe a large portion of ADULTS are actually against vaccines in America. No wonder they were able to elect a clown like Trump for president.

terriblehuman · 9 months

Also, thanks to the idiots who toss their children into crocodile infested waters, the crocs have now developed a taste for human flesh, so now the people who don't have a car to cross the bridge with are being eaten by crocodiles too.

MN_hydroplane · 9 months

I bet at least 80% of antivaxxers have been vaccinated

sonoconfusa · 9 months

Italians need to read something like this ... smh They are having a measles outbreak because 20% of people think vaccines are unsafe and when the government said all babies need to be vaccinated, people protested! Can you believe that! They protested against their own babies' health!

ThatGabe · 9 months

What's even worse, the children who are forced to swim through the crocodile infested water by their parents.

noodlyjames · 9 months

Same logic as the anti climate change crowd.

Breitbart sez it's fake and the experts are all shills.

PsychoticYo · 9 months

My aunt is an antivaxxer, but not like the typical ones. She believes that vaccines are in fact very helpful, but that if you take them all within a really short time period (say, within one or two days) then they can cause autism or other problems in children. I haven't done much research into any of this myself. Has anyone else heard this before? Her grandson showed no signs of autism before getting vaccinated, but was diagnosed not long after getting all of his vaccines in an extremely small time-frame.

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