jenny mccarthy wants your kid to get measles: autism, vaccines, and stupid idiots

Curious: did your friend say (or given confidentiality, maybe just implied) if the parents had any second thoughts about it all?

he said the parents tend to be unrepentant and found it frustrating that ppl hold the advice of their yoga instructors in higher esteem than that of medical professionals

Those same parents will yet wonder why it is their offspring never call...

There have been a couple of cases in my county.

I went to check if they were in any of the local school districts, and I found someone posting "I wonder if the increase in sickness is due to illegals attending our schools without the proper shots?"

ffs

Vh1 and NBC just gave her chat shows, btw

"Whoop It Up! with Jenny McCarthy"

Will there reach a tipping point wrt to number of cases where we can criminalize not getting your child vaccinated?

ha that will never happen, not without half the country dying

The Whooping Dead

jenny mccarthy's the stand

I was being facetious, but, yeah, since my son was born this has ratcheted up my anger at these people.

ditto

"Whoop It Up! with Jenny McCarthy"

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:20 PM (2 hours ago)

hahaha

"Whoop It Up! with Jenny McCarthy"

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:20 PM (2 hours ago)

dying

also thread title change?

NO.

aww

it is p lol tho

lol dan

Can't we just give these people hologram bracelets that protect infants from autism. btw these bracelets only work in conjunctions with innoculation

Brilliant.

They also allow us to identify children whose parents we wish to avoid.

More Doctors 'Fire' Vaccine Refusers

Families Who Reject Inoculations Told to Find a New Physician; Contagion in Waiting Room Is a Fear

^^^last attending did that with a fam.

Super Bowl measles outbreak: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/measles-outbreak-in-indiana.html

oh my god

I am not sure how Gardasil came up in conversation at work today, but it did. OMG vaccinating 9 year olds! And boys!

New girl: "There have been deaths from it!"

Me: "I bet more people have died from cancer."

Or the deaths from Aspirin, Tylenol, etc

btw there have not been deaths from it

Thirty four of the total death reports have been confirmed and 37 remain unconfirmed due to no identifiable patient information in the report such as a name and contact information to confirm the report. A death report is confirmed (verified) after a medical doctor reviews the report and any associated records. In the 34 reports confirmed, there was no unusual pattern or clustering to the deaths that would suggest that they were caused by the vaccine and some reports indicated a cause of death unrelated to vaccination.

Turns out that among 40 million vaccinations, you might have a few people who die.

WAHT?

ppl die everyday

Yeah! Among 40 million people, any particular 40 dying is... not that statistically significant and doesn't really amount to a correlation.

Like if I took 40 million teens that drank milkshakes, probably 40 would have died

ban milkshakes imo

PEOPLE DIE??????

:(

btw of those 40 million milkshake-drinking teens, some were autistic

makes you think

This is not the first work conversation I have had where people have been concerned about the side effects of Gardasil. "We don't know what the long term effects are!!"

Sigh.

Yes we do. You don't get HPV.

you know i said the same thing about the introduction of diet coke 'THERE HAVE BEEN NO LONG TERM STUDIES'. i was fucking right.

One of the girls also said "we just don't know!!" about the world ending in 2012.

I'm amazed at the backwards thinking behind those that avoid the chicken pox vaccine. "We used to get chicken pox all the time, and we all turned out fine, so I'm just going to let my kids get chicken pox." Of course, this doesn't take into account the young, old or otherwise imuno-compromised, but fuck them, right? The fact that the pox vax may or may not actually work is secondary to the selfish impulse behind avoiding it.

my BFF since like 5th grade has a son with autism and she is also in her final year of finishing a degree that will make her a ASD councilor. For her final year she actually has to work as a councilor. 3 things she has learned:
1. Jenny McCarthy is a fucking asshole
2. Parents of ASD kids. Also assholes.
3. Agressive ASD can be triggered by 2 y/o vaccinations but that shit is already there. Its only TRIGGERED.

Triggered? Or just coincidental manifestation? I don't see how anyone can prove something was triggered.

Unless you had two subjects you knew had ASD, and one had it triggered, and one didn't. Which of course is something of a paradox.

BTW her 5 y/o with ASD is one of the smartest kids i know. EMBRACE THIS SHIT PEOPLE.

Having chicken pox was one of the most miserable experiences of my life; I would literally have committed murder if someone had told me it would have cured me of it. I can't imagine avoiding anything that would shield a child from it.

well a genetic predisposition can by triggered by most anything. Schizophrenics get triggered, addiction gets triggered etc etc. its their biology. ASD too gets triggered in one of a trillion ways.

Also she made a smart decision to delay vaccinations. Not that he didnt get them they just spaced them out a little more instead of oh hey youre two lets give you 5 needles at once.

shit lies dormant and then it gets triggered and goes bananas. IE nothing CAUSES ASD.

I have no doubt that things can trigger things. I just don't see how your friend determined that ASD could be triggered by 2 year old vaccinations. Because there's no control in the "experiment," there's no way to know whether it would have manifested itself, anyway.