It's funny (anecdotal, not funny haha) that MrStu and I just had this conversation. I can't believe we live in a world where we have to ask parents these questions just to keep our kids safe.

My pregnant SIL in law in Marin County was anti-vaccine, until her niece, whom she lives with, was diagnosed with whooping cough. She changed her tune real quick after that.

It makes me think of this. If I was sending my kid over to play at your house, I might not only want to ask if you had any guns in your home, but if all your kids had received their vaccines. Given the danger, it’s not an unreasonable question.

That’s why I love our ped. Someone once called while we were in the office, begging for the doc to see her toddler, who had a fever and a rash. They were not current patients. The doctor said “are your children vaccinated?” And when she said no, our ped said “sorry, I can’t see you. I can’t endanger kids in my…

Exactly—build your immune system by laying off the Purell a little bit. HELP your immune system by getting vaccines. Saying that you’re helping kids build their immune systems through non-vaccination is like saying that you’re helping them build their strategic minds by sending them off to war with no weapons.

But, but... Toxins!!! It's not natural!!! Say the people who take unlicensed mushroom pills know to cause hepatitis and jaundice.

There’s one really good way to build your immune system: get vaccinated!

(also ugh, I hate this trope. what they mean is “making antibodies and memory T and B cells,” which is exactly what vaccines do minus the whole being-miserably-ill thing, but they don’t know that because they don’t know shit about how the immune…

We have a family cemetery that we visit regularly. There are a depressing number of little graves of kids who never had the chance to get immunized.

I ask now. It’s so stupid, but our neighborhood in West LA had a 67.5% religious exemption rate at one point. Play date? Birthday party? Great. Are your kids vaccinated? Oh, you don’t believe in that? Hasta.

I used to live across the way from a vegan idiot who was trying to feed his cat a vegan diet. I used to sneak it fancy feast (the poor thing would wail at the window if it could smell meat cooking inside) until he moved and dumped the emaciated creature. It was adopted by the tenants of my shared house and gained…

People: do not impose your personal issues with food on the children or animals in your care. Their health comes before your politics.

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT: FORMULA IS NOT RAT POISON!

I think after 6 months you can start introducing baby food and such...anything that’s already mashed up. Even if the baby’s parents were vegan, you’d think they’d give the kid some mashed fruits and veggies.

Well, that was fucking abusive.