What books are you reading as an adult? Because this is one of the sillier things I've read today. Nearly everything I've read as an adult as meant more, delved deeper, and had a more lasting impact than any 'chuldren's book' I've read. Seriously, how are people starring this?

I couldn't disagree more. A few years ago, my friend remarked to me (in our late 20's) that he 'missed stories about good versus evil,' and that he was disappointed that things were so complicated these days. I was astonished — I absolutely loathe anything that dares to simplify to unambiguously good, or even worse,…

Oh man, my list of influential books would all be grown up books! As a kid, I never put down a book after finishing and had to take a break from reading because my heart hurt or I was so drawn into the world I couldn't yet pull myself away.

Not true. Way to make excuses for not reading as an adult.

You're reading different grown-up books than I am.

I remember my first chuldren's book. It was ..... wait.

But didn't she only come at him after he hit her the first time?

Well she has managed to perfectly time the activities of her womb to best influence the vote for Scottish independence. That in itself is quite an achievement.

I'm trying to imagine this bike accident and I have to tell you, things are getting a little nuts!

Smallpox no longer has a natural reservoir among humans, and is thus considered a vaccination success story. The disease was eliminated through vaccination in the 70's, but, being the middle of the Cold War, neither the U.S. nor the U.S.S.R. was willing to eliminate their research samples for fear that the other…

It's a problem because IDs are usually not automatically issued, free of charge, to every citizen upon attaining their legal majority (or the passage of a new voter ID law). Lots of people can't afford the fees involved in getting one, or have difficulty in going through the process required for it (the elderly, for…

Nice xenophobia you've got there. Do you have any evidence that undocumented immigrants are more likely to carry these diseases. The majority of undocumented immigrants in this country are from Latin American countries which have high vaccination rates.

Except for the children who are too young for a particular vaccination. This is not a personal issue, its a community issue and the fact that people have trouble seeing this is truly disturbing. I am guessing that you are not one of the "critical thinking" folks, but just in case here is a link for "community immunity.…

Dead kids don't get autism.

Porous borders? Do you know anyone who has legally immigrated to the United States? Because just to go for your visa interview you have to be fully immunized and have a clean bill of health. Sick or non vaccinated people are not being handed visas and given the go ahead to stroll into America. The US has higher cases…

You are literally too stupid to understand my very simple point. And you just can't help yourself from demonstrating just how stupid you are with every opportunity. What's it like to be so aggressively stupid? Can you illustrate to me what the genesis is for such impulsively proactive stupidity? I'm truly fascinated.

You fail to understand the simple key word of "stop." See, "stop being a fucking idiot" doesn't actually mean "double down on your complete fucking idiocy, you total fucking idiot." Not that I expect anything different from a fucking idiot who uses the word "liberal" like an insult.

That's not entirely true, actually. Once a disease outbreak is started by non-vaccinated people, the disease can jump to even vaccinated people sometimes. Particularly if it is a virulent strain. Vaccination, as good as it is, is not 100% effective by itself.

You're a fucking idiot. I'm not going to engage with a fucking idiot. Stop being a fucking idiot.

Vaccines do not always have a 100% efficacy rate. Polio and measles vaccines are, IIRC, about 99% effective, which means you can eradicate the disease from a good deal of the population via vaccines and the other 1% will receive herd immunity as the disease will lack the hosts that can effectively spread it.

So yes,…