See here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92772.40

Please don't go there and post, this is more of a letting-off of steam than a request for help.

Definitely 'could of'.

Almost as annoying as anti-vax people are anti-food people.

Name a food, any food, and I bet there's a book on Amazon that's all about how eliminating it from your diet will solve all your health problems.

That is so dangerous. They're putting their kids at risk and other people's kids as well.

I know someone who thinks you can build up a tolerance to vaccinations like with painkillers, drugs, etc. He has no knowledge of the immune system. If he had kids then the anti-vaxxers could lie and he would believe it.

That Adam fellow is likely to come back and get a bit verbal at you in my opinion, Gareth.

But...that's how vaccinations work. You get a little bit of something nasty and your immune system uses it as a template to build up a tolerance to it.

Unless I'm misreading you, which I think seems likely.

This post was last modified: 07-14-2012 01:13 AM by ῦ.

No, what he meant is that the vaccinations quit working and you would need larger doses for it to protect you.

Well then he's a moron and needs a slap.

I mean...on a "giving him a farktonne of benefit of the doubt" analysis, he's kinda correct - you do need to have some vaccinations repeated or more properly speaking, Boosted (EG: Tetanus - which reminds me, I'm due), but I doubt that's what he meant.

My brother died because he was not properly vaccinated.  He was only 19.  

You need to be vaccinated against meningococcal disease at 11, 16, and again in your early twenties and periodically throughout adulthood.  It can kill adults as well, though it is much more common in teens.  There are a few brands out there, one is called Menactra.  

Let's see, dead child or paranoid imaginary risks of vaccination to alive child?  Decisions, decisions...

Anti-vacc statements make me want to vomit.  I wish people with these high and mighty ideas could experience, if just for a moment, what I have been through, knowing afterwards that a simple prick in the arm could have prevented it.

He's thinking of them like they're drugs - which they aren't in the usual sense

As we are all aware of, it is scientifically verified that vaccines do not cause autism, however I sometimes wonder if some of the people believing they do actually are aware of the evidence against anti-vaccination and believe it causes that anyway.

Anyway, this gives the parents who are anti-vaccine the rather bad implication (that I am sure at least some whole-heartedly believe) that the risk of dying young from illness is a preferable fate then having to live with a social disorder. Granted, I am sure these same parents will believe any negative stereotype about autism without question, but still...

This post was last modified: 07-17-2012 12:25 AM by Euphoria.

My response to anti-vaxxers

If you look very very closely at the syringe that the MMR comes in, and I mean very closely, you'll notice the word "gullible" in bold black letters.

Disclosure; I have removed one duplicate post from this thread.

You don't 'need' any such thing. The vast majority of people who aren't vaccinated against meningitis will still not get it.

How annoying are these people when you tell them to check the facts - they give you some lists of "facts" that really are not true or just silly.  They do some rather bad research on the internet and think they are right.

Yeah, as currently stands.

However, as the number of unvaccinated people grows, so too does the pool of potential infections - and it only takes one of them to develop a new strain and bam, herd immunity gone. Additionally, if the number of unvaccinated people grows, so too does the odds of one unvaccinated person coming into contact with another; again, it only takes one of them to get infected and it could spread quickly, particularly if you take into account things like the London Underground at rush hour.