As someone who has followed the Vaccine Crusades for about a decade I noticed a troubling narrative switch facing those who call themselves Anti-Vaxx:
People who had previously said:
“I don’t think the MMR Vaccines causes autism but even if they did I would want my kid autistic instead of dead.”
Switched to a more worrisome:
“I don’t think the MMR vaccine causes autism but even if it did it’s for the greater good that we had autism instead of death.”
This narrative flip signified that the threat of childhood diseases such as the measles is so vast that they would not only sacrifice their children to possible cognitive impairment but ALL of societies Children.
In 1962 there were 408 Deaths from the Measles. The population of the United States in 1962 was 186,537,737. This place the mortality risk of Measles as 1 in 457,200. That accounts for a 97.6 percent of the population-corrected decline in measles mortality on its own or a decrease in measles death instances by more than 4,000% in 53 years leading into the end of 1962 *Before* the measles Vaccine arrived.
It’s 2021 almost 6 decades later. Your kid isn’t dying of Measles, with or without the Vaccine.
Meanwhile Autism has skyrocketed afflicting 1 in under 50. Despite the fact that the consensus of Science Inc. is that “There is no evidence that Vaccination causes autism” (nor am I 100% convinced yet) thousands of parents describe the same phenomenon: within hours of vaccinating their children sickness and cognitive impairment manifested itself. That’s under 1 in 45 vs 1 in 457,000. How can you “trust the science” ™️ if you don’t even believe “The Math”?
No one would wish that on their children instead of chicken pox and the measles, disease considered so benign decades ago that “parties” were held where children were left to play with the infected to “get it over with.”
Whether this is a wise strategy I will leave for others to decide. As a matter of fact in a Marcracy I would leave you and you alone to make decisions for what medical treatment you and your kid gets (novel idea, I know).
This is not the case in our corporatocracy which has turned it attention to vaccinating the 18 and under for COVID 19.
It’s been over a year. We know that not only do the youth not die from COVID in large numbers, they don’t contract or spread it in large numbers. We literally know the science (actual science not the incorporated trademark version) behind why the youth are safer.
Which brings this around again to the drive to vaccinate teenagers for COVID-19 despite the increasing likelihood that the vaccine directly causes myocarditis in a worrisome and increasingly noticeable number of the young.
“Don’t worry, it’s rare, and it usually produces a complete recovery.” Say the Vaxxiphiles hoping that staves off the discussion of *Why* the COVID vaccines are causing heart inflammation in teenagers. Because to study it is to acknowledge it and they prefer it remain a “rare” anecdote, random unfortunate events like a car accident.
Meanwhile not to state the obvious but Your kid shouldn’t have an inflamed heart, no matter how rare or recoverable it is.
Nor should you be guilted by society into getting medical treatments, which all carry individual risk, to provide a vague intangible benefits to society.
When the fuck did we decide as a society, or who decided for us, that stopping each and every COVID death was worth sacrificing the physical and psychological health of everyone else, including children.
But then again this is what our narcissistic culture has produced.
I suppose “I don’t think the MMR vaccine causes autism but even if it did it’s for the greater good that we had autism instead of death.” was the next logical step to “Who gives a shit if your high schooler has a heart attack, grandpa pacemaker wants to hit the golf course again”…
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