diane a, I don't know what to do, upvote yote you for trolling the trolls or not do it for fear of spreading more desinformation. Thanks! There is light in the darkness.

The initial downvote flurry seems to have passed. The anti-vaxxers have crawled back into their echo chambers, and now the reasonable readers will come in and give their upvotes.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/12/measles-outbreak-in-philippines-kills-70-with-vaccine-fear-mongering-blamed

Hmm - experiment successful - 25 upvotes - mentioning I almost died of measles got 32 downvotes

10 mins and no downvotes yet

I'm wondering if 'they' have gone now? I also wasn't sure whether to upvote your experiment or not in case I messed it up.

and your comments gotten 20 upvotes from them, ROFL

I once did a social experiment on G+ that went like "why don't we have STRAIGHT pride? why don't we have WHITE history month? why don't we have hospitals for HEALTHY people?" etc. It was interesting how many angry comments there were. Eventually people actually looked at my profile and realised that I wasn't the type of person to be making those statements lol. So my point was proven.

social experiment in check. good job.

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because everyone should be - herd immunity will protect your kids only if over 90%, ideally over 95% are vaccinated - your child needs to be one of them, to protect themselves and others.

Because anti-vaccination is a real danger? And people should be conscious and aware that there is a problem, my guess. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/health/2019/02/08/washington-measles-outbreak-draws-crowd-hearing-vaccine-law/ BP also seems to care about enviroment, health, equality and everything...

Why are you so anti-vax?

Because vaccines are a proven way to prevent dangerous diseases and it deserves multiple reminders.

We are pro- child health - is that a difficult idea?

What is not to be in favor of - an innovation that has saved 100's of millions of lives over the last 80 years and before? Or the alternative - "I'll just let my kids risk it" if enough people let them risk it - the diseases will come back with a vengeance.

Why do you not care about important health issues?

The anti-vax issue is low-hanging fruit, because it's about something that SHOULD be common sense but people's judgment has been clouded by emotion. It's become a high-profile example of how greed causes someone to initially skew information for personal gain, and the disastrous consequences that follow. I hope we have teachers/professors out there who are using this as an example for their logic and critical thinking curricula. Assuming it's still being taught...

Because pestilence is literally one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and vaccines are proven safe and effective prevention for pestilence. Seriously, who wants to be filthy carriers of disease? Why is anyone okay with their kids being that?

Maybe because diseases that shouldn't be a thing any more are making a big comeback? Mocking anti-vaxxers relentlessly needs to continue until they stop affecting the health of everyone else with their stupidity and ignorance.

Gosh could it be because they’ve literally saved millions of lives around the world and the willfully ignorant deserve to mocked relentlessly???

It isn't just Bored Panda. Check out Reddit or other sites; giant parts of the internet are pretty vicious toward the anti-vaxx crowd. Maybe shame and public ridicule will accomplish what basic logic and massive amounts of carefully researched facts cannot convince these people of - that vaccines save lives.

i came within hours of dying from measles - will be pro vaccination always

Because intelligent people congregate here

This is like asking: Why is Bored Panda so pro-being-alive?

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Anti vaxxers are f*****g horrible but this s**t is so repetitive on bored Panda. They never stop going on and on about it. We all agree vaccines are absolutely necessary. We don’t need to affirm that every six hours.