Anti-Vaxxer’s Meme Gets Shut Down By A Clever Comment

Anti-vaxxers are still out there. They do not care that health organizations, doctors, and scientists agree that vaccines are safe and effective. They just repeat their mantras. Recently, an anti-vaxxer even turned one into a Philosoraptor meme. Asking why is his unvaccinated kid a danger to the vaccinated ones (assuming that vaccines work) they thought they were exposing a quirky paradox. Luckily, someone took the time to completely obliterate it. Reddit user u/Slackbeing posted the entire thing on the subreddit r/MurderedByWords where it has already received over 53k upvotes. We can only hope that the person who made the meme has read it as well. Not all who wander are lost.

Anti-Vaxxer's Meme Gets Shut Down By A Clever Comment

Some people think that there is little benefit in giving children vaccinations because the risk of contracting vaccine-preventable diseases is so low. Sadly, this is a harmful anti-vaccination myth. According to an article by Medical News Today, “Vaccine-preventable disease rates have dropped because immunization is now a widespread and common practice. In recent years, however, the number of people contracting vaccine-preventable diseases has increased. Research has found that children who do not undergo immunization are a contributing factor to this troubling trend.”

Thanks to “herd immunity,” so long as a large majority of people are immunized, even the unimmunized minority will be protected. With so many people resistant, infectious disease simply won’t get the change to establish itself and spread. This is very important because there will always be a portion of the population (for example, infants, pregnant women, elderly) that can’t receive vaccines.

However, if too many people aren’t getting vaccinates, they start building a collective danger, opening up opportunities for viruses and bacteria to establish themselves, mutate, and spread.

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Anti-Vaxxer's Meme Gets Shut Down By A Clever Comment

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Jason Doakes 5 years ago

And some of the comments once again show us the real problem of disagreement, people just can't take being criticized and prefer to expose their kids and other kids to terrible diseases instead of simply accept that "I might be wrong about that...". The prevalent thought seems to be; "If I'm too stupid to understand what someone else is trying to explain, he is an a*****e for using the proper words." It's unfathomable that the dumbest people are those that are the most convinced. Well, I have no clue about anything, except that all those doctors know it better than me and I'm pretty sure they won't get rich with vaccines, which mostly get sold at the production cost..

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Mikael Cerbing 5 years ago

"It's unfathomable that the dumbest people are those that are the most convinced" Acctually no, there is a lot of Scientific studies that has looked at this. And it is very common. The less you know about something, the more sure you are that you know all that there is to know about it. It almost goes back to Socrates. But it is still very sad and a big Public problem.

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Herb Eaversmells 5 years ago

Do anti-vaxers get their dogs rabies shots?

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Cactuar Jon 5 years ago

Well, we can't have autistic dogs running about the place now, can we?

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Samantha Lomb 5 years ago

Honestly some don't. There has been a rise in unvaccinated dogs in hipstry areas as pet owners believe it will make the dogs autistic, which is impossible. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/world/europe/britain-dogs-autism-vaccine.html That said my cats both had massive reactions to their rabies vaccines when given in the shoulders, with the female requiring steroid shots and oral meds to get the swelling down and cats can get vaccine site sarcomas so they now get butt shots because if a sarcoma develops there the leg can come off. They also seem to tolerate it better and have less of a reaction.

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cheriecortez 5 years ago

I can tell you that I've had several people at least try to get me to give their dogs half the dose so it will be safer... I'll just leave that there for your own conclusions.

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D. Pitbull 5 years ago

So. Met a friend's neighbour. She says all this in the same setting (like... the sentences right after another): "Vaccines for your pets is just so the vets can MAKE MONEY, only a SUCKER gets their pet vaccinated. I've **NEVER** had a dog that didn't have enough antibodies to deal with everything on their own NATURALLY. ... oh yes, so sad my last dog could never go out or leave my place... why, you ask? Oh... she was so odd, had this condition... she had just NO immune system at all of her own. Couldn't fight off any illness or disease." - Seriously. They just don't see a problem with saying things like this. Makes perfect sense to them.

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Leah Helbig 5 years ago

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K. Blanchette 5 years ago

Take all the antivaxxers and their kids, put em all on an island and we'll see how quick they wipe themselves out. If course I don't mean literally so don't be all WhY wOuLd YoU sAy ThAt but antivaxxing is child endangerment.

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sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago

On a previous post, I also said they should be put on an island, but too bad if they arrive, and have a virus, too late for help !!!

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Jason Doakes 5 years ago

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Mikael Cerbing 5 years ago

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Herb Eaversmells 5 years ago

Do anti-vaxers get their dogs rabies shots?

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Cactuar Jon 5 years ago

Well, we can't have autistic dogs running about the place now, can we?

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Samantha Lomb 5 years ago

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cheriecortez 5 years ago

I can tell you that I've had several people at least try to get me to give their dogs half the dose so it will be safer... I'll just leave that there for your own conclusions.

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