Right, I said that Facebook should do it, as should other sites, but there are already websites touting all of this information that are very popular and still show up on Google search results (that deep dive into the anti-vaxx foundation here on Jez talked about the internet presence a bit). You can’t deplatform…

Ask them how their health care is. You won’t like the answer.

That’ll be $3,200
-U.S. Healthcare Provider

My husband is originally from the US, and moved north about five years ago. He ended up getting cancer a few years ago and then again last year, and honest to god, I’m so glad that if it had to happen, it happened here. We would have been bankrupted otherwise.

I disagree. Deplatforming works. Here, consider this case: after WWII, the UK released a bunch of its home-grown fascists, and one of them (I forget all of the names here, because despite reading the article about this within the last week, I can’t find it anywhere) went right back to yelling shit in the public…

I live in Michigan. If I could tell you how many of my really well off friends, none of whom work in medical, talk about the influx of Canadians getting their healthcare here, you would think there was some kind of national emergency.

Blah blah blah... All I noticed was the Finns wrote complete sentences using proper grammar and punctuation on a social media platform. Can we include their evil socialized education in the discussion, too?

Hey Nikki,

Canadian here, my wife gave birth last year... We received free ultrasounds and prenatal testing throughout, free access to midwifery care, free access to a birth centre that was like a hotel suit with a fireplace and a tub. My wife had complications, we were transferred to a hospital (for free), had an emergency…

When they say research, most people just mean I googled it and looked at the one at the top.

Yeah, I think this is right. And to expand on your point about people losing trust in doctors - I think another aspect is that people can’t actually afford healthcare so they get pushed out into the healthcare margins where there’s a lot of pseudoscience that offers “remedies” that are far, far cheaper than…

Yes, I think this is the root of the problem. As a woman, I have felt consistently dismissed by doctors most of my adult life. I have found them unwilling to explore my issues, instead basically dismissing them as me being tired or depressed. Well, yes I am tired and depressed, but can you help me figure out WHY? Why…

I agree, but that’s a mouthful. I go with “pro-plague”. 

As John Oliver once put it on another topic: a reasoned consideration of the facts is not how they got to where they are, and it’s not what’s going to get them out.

I take it none of these people eat or drink? Or breathe? All of which involves putting stuff in the body?

The worst part is, big pharma makes so very little off of vaccines, and far more off the vitimins that some people turn to as an alternative. Also let's not Kidd ourselves, anti-vaxx is also full of cupidity, and given the lack of regulation on their shit, the alternative side is full of more charlitans.

I’ve actually noticed a new type of post from my more idiotic family members recently. That is, the Bible say you shouldn’t get vaccines, type. Their basic argument is God made the body perfect so putting anything extra in it is ungodly.

I love when anti-vaxers say, “I did my research and it raised a lot of concerns”. Was any of that research in the form of a conversation with your doctor, or a medical journal, or hell, even the normally unreliable “you-definitely-have-cancer-no-matter-what” WebMD? Nope, they found a bunch webpages of celebrities and…

I recently heard a podcaster (I think it was on Sawbones) argue that we shouldn’t say people are “anti-vaxx” but rather “pro-preventable disease.” I’d like to see this take off. It’s still an accurate description but is more effective as making these people look as stupid as they are.

The healthcare industry is at least partially responsible for this. While the science behind vaccines is ironclad, pharmaceutical companies do routinely get over on doctors, patients, and the FDA. They market their latest drugs directly to the public for profit’s sake, and don’t give a single shit about safety or…