Do you think parents who choose not to vaccinate their children should be "punished" by restricted access to healthcare, reduced support for childcare or any other means? Why?
I don't think they should be punished but vaccination should be compulsory as in fairly obvious ways, it affects their children and everyone else's if they aren't vaccinated.
The anti-vaxxers make me angry and disgusted, as their leaders tell lies and their followers don't care enough to find out the truth.
Specifically in how they say vaccines cause autism, as if the spectrum (which I'm on) were a curse rather than a difference which is a difference but can lead to something positive that neurotypical people don't have, if sensitively handled.
And they also think that rather than being an innate condition which is just a state of being, it's something that can and should be done away with if only people reject science.
It's also dismaying to think that this new wave of nationalism/populism/wilful ignorance in Europe and America is willing to flirt with this; while the leaders may not believe in the anti-vaxxer message, they evidently find it useful to spread conspiracy theories about everything (except Russia, whose rulers are to be believed on everything).
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/anti-vaxxers-italy-vaccine-measles-epidemic-europe-us-vaccination-global-health-security-agenda-a8560021.html
The anti-vaxxers make me angry and disgusted, as their leaders tell lies and their followers don't care enough to find out the truth.
Specifically in how they say vaccines cause autism, as if the spectrum (which I'm on) were a curse rather than a difference which is a difference but can lead to something positive that neurotypical people don't have, if sensitively handled.
And they also think that rather than being an innate condition which is just a state of being, it's something that can and should be done away with if only people reject science.
It's also dismaying to think that this new wave of nationalism/populism/wilful ignorance in Europe and America is willing to flirt with this; while the leaders may not believe in the anti-vaxxer message, they evidently find it useful to spread conspiracy theories about everything (except Russia, whose rulers are to be believed on everything).
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/anti-vaxxers-italy-vaccine-measles-epidemic-europe-us-vaccination-global-health-security-agenda-a8560021.html
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