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.

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[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Geez, talk about non-consensual choices.

Those poor kids.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

If somebody wants to win a Darwin award, that's their business. Darwin awards by proxy, though, are wrong. Very wrong.

[spiritdancer]

Yep. That's part of why I got my pertussis booster (along with tetanus and pneumonia vaccine) before I left the hospital when Michael was born.

On the veterinary side, it's called herd immunity - the higher the percentage of immune (vaccinated) individuals, the less likely you are to see a preventable disease.

[lunar--angel.livejournal.com]

If I'm reading this correctly, a large portion of the problem is vaccinations that have worn off. Until reading this, it would not have occurred to me to re-up my pertussis vaccine. So it's not all the crazy non-vaccination types...