Thank you! Scientifically speaking, look at the teeth. Carnivorous pets are specially designed to eat meat.

Ok vaccines do NOT cause autism, yes it may have side affects mentally or physically but autism is something you are born with! And I know that some of our beloved bored panda community has autism and can back me up on this. (edit: im sorry to everyone that got ofended by this statement! im not a medical professional!)

Even IF this was true, you are still saying that you would rather have a dead kid than an autistic kid, and thus would STILL be wrong.

I used to give immunisations and vaccinations to ambulance staff - obviously they needed to be immunised against what they may contact/needlestick etc (HepB) There was a measles outbreak in the area and we had a drive to give MMR (many were 'too old' to have had the vaccine in childhood) So, in comes one technician (a step below paramedic) and delines because she, a 42 year old, doesn't want to get autism...... You can't force anyone, so she signs a waiver, but I really had to hold on to my temper that day.

Get all the vaccines you can. I forgot my flu shot one year and got the real flu, not the flu my hypochondriac roomie always used to get out of cleaning up after herself. It was hellish. I could not keep anything down for days, and was so lightheaded I felt I was floating. I lost a lot of weight in the worst way.....and people told me I looked "great." Vaccines are amazing. Keep them up to date.

I went to school with kids who had polio. Damn straight I'm getting every vaccine I need.

Honestly, following the comments, this stuff is old in context to covid. Just wear a flipping mask. You know there are people who decided against taking this particular vaccine and all the pontificating at this stage of the game is pointless. You can only do what's best to protect yourself. So wear a flipping mask. Being vaccinated never nullified the fact that a proper mask is your best protection. Studies are also showing that there are a whole range of people who are naturally immune to the recent strains of covid.

I ask those people how I was vaccinated in the womb. Mostly they just say something nasty and leave. I really wish one would explain it to me.

Off topic, I remember a mom coming into the office to have a paper signed from her son’s doctor ( he’s in a special needs program due to autism) there is a legit question in the form that states how long /duration of his diagnosis will be) I understand it might be a generalized form, but she was so upset, she said “ yeah one day he’s gonna wake up and it’s gone”

Also, autism is not a horrid disease! sure, it impacts lives but it certainly doesn't destroy them, as ableists like to proclaim.

There is a wonderful large experiment. Before reunification, East Germany had a 98% or so rate of vaccination, while it was some 70% in West Germany. After the reunification, vaccination rates started dropping in East Germany, and Autism cases started increasing. So decreased vaccination rates were correlated to increased rates of ASD. Even controlling for the fact countries that are more advanced medically have higher rates of detection of ASD, there may be a positive correlation between the lifestyle of advanced countries and the prevalence of ASD. However, until doctors actually understand the underlying changes in brain structure and function that cause ASD, everything else will be speculation.

But refusing all vaccines does cause stupidity.

Only the GOP believes that

Tylenol doesn't cause autism, either. Looking at YOU, frivolous, misinformation spreading "class-action" lawsuit. 🙄

My elderly mother told me how she was babysitting the girl next door, a year old back in the early 50s. While playing my mom noticed the girl had a rash. She immediately told the girl's mom. Mom blew it off. By that evening the girl had a high fever & was completely covered with the rash. By morning she was delirious. She started having seizures as her brain swelled up. Back then infectious patients went to special hospitals, not to regular hospitals where they could infect others. By midnight the girl was dead. Her brain had swelled so much that her brain stem herniated. She had measles. The family never recovered from the girl's death. But hey, at least she didn't get autistic from a vaccine. Life is a risk with just about everything we do. Choose the smarter path.

As SMBC said, thanks to over-representation in research, it's actually autism that causes vaccines.

Every time I hear that I think of Jenny McCarthy.

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I am not saying vaccine causes autism but when I was a child I know no person who had autism, but now I have 5 in my extended family. Something is increasing autism In children.

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I've done a couple of my own studies on vaccines using publicly available CDC and DPH data from Alabama and it showed me that the likelihood of having a severe reaction to a vaccine was just as likely as severe reaction to the illness for some vaccines. So even only using voluntarily supplied data on public sites (very conservative approach) showed that for some there is a reason to think twice about vaccines. If the medical community did a better job of being honest and transparent about this and other medical data, it would help a lot. Everyone does or says stupid things, but treating people like they are stupid will never end in a better place.