Okay, and my parents are the presidents-for-life of the Illuminati, and they tell me to eat my greens and drink plenty of water.

I would have thrown the waffle.

I think it should be mandatory to vaccinate, with the only exception being for people with contraindicated health conditions (stupidity doesn't count). No religious exemptions, no personal feelings, nothing.

I'm not sure how you got the impression I'm anti-vax . Did you not see the rest of the image?

I was in a Vancouver (WA) hotel earlier this year, eating at the continental breakfast (its own unique circle of hell, but I digress). I overheard a mom talking to another family about how "my first kid got a vaccine and bam! 24 hours later he had autism. So now I don't vaccinate." It took all my self-control not to…

as someone who was born with immunodeficiencies, fuck you and vaccinate your FUCKING kids you fucking idiot fucking cuntfucking fuckers.

I'm guessing meningicoccal disease. That's the only one off the top of my head that can lead to limb loss for which there is a vaccine. But I'm no expert.

This makes me so angry. Sooooo angry.

Well, no, I understand from biology class that if you're rich and ugly there is some possibility of contracting a disease. It's only the rich and good-looking that are completely immune. So in that little window of time before the plastic surgery is scheduled, there is some danger for them.

And when their children get sick, they can afford to get them all the best medical care in the world, while the children of poorer families they infect are fucked.

I know this first hand as a preschool teacher and mom in these exclusive schools. In fact, I am surprised that the numbers of the not vaccinated aren't higher. What they also do not take into account is that lots of people favor Attachment-Parenting type Dr.'s who do not believe in vaccines or like Paul Fleiss, …

We've had babies die, and the anti-vaccine movement continues :/ . Same dynamic happens with "unassisted" childbirth- a baby dies a birth that appears to be preventable, yet mom doubles down on her belief that it's the best way. There's no reasoning with them.

It's a hideous quirk of human psychology that makes us refuse to believe that something can happen until it does. We trick our own minds. Reality is such a fucker.

I think being rich and privileged would give people a greater illusion of control like they keep vegan and organic so their child could never be sick. It's magical thinking but it's easy to fall into if everything else that you've ever planned has always worked.

FUCK YOU VACCINATE YOUR KIDS

Sorry - if you choose not to vaccinate your kids, they should go to the back of the line for treatment (sad, but necessary), YOU should pay 3x the costs for when they get sick from the disease AND you are on the hook for ALL expenses incurred by others treatment due to your decision. Reckless bastards...

This freaks me the fuck out. I live in LA and my husband and I are planning on having a baby next year. My whole life it was drilled into me to go to (and then send my kids to) the best public schools available, but now I'm kind of scared to, since they're typically in the wealthier neighborhoods. (Not that we…

I agree with the final message, that as soon as a kid dies from something again things will swing back. However I think one issue is that these people are wealthy enough to where their kid being ill for a few weeks is not such an imposition on them. I mean, my parents made sure I got my shots, but when I was younger…

"All it takes is one bad epidemic and 90 percent [of skeptics] will change their mind." Shapiro concurs. "A baby dies of whooping cough in the Palisades?" she says. "Let me tell you, everyone will be immunized. No question."