Fuck you, anti-vaxxers

[gfish]

10 infants dead in California whooping cough outbreak

Science keeps babies alive. Until your alternate system can beat its record, I really, really don't want to hear about it.

Comments

[spiritdancer]

I suspect using "herd immunity" goes back to the veterinarians. IIRC, something like "community resistance" is used for people (since they don't usually run in herds :))

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I've always heard it called herd immunity in humans, too -- but I was a microbiologist; I'm guessing doctors and people with a sense of PR might use better terminology than epidemiologists.