I had no idea people outside the area didn’t know what NoHo meant. This is great. 

(Replying to you rather than to the confused soul who said “I wasn’t necessary because the government didn’t force it on people.”): the US Supreme Court settled the mandatory vaccination question in 1905, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts.

Yes. I am in my mid 40s and was not vaccinated as a child due to religious reasons. I grew up in a fundamentalist christian sect/cult. (I am fully vaccinated now, as is my child.)

Yes and no. There is a long history of medical exemptions (some allergies, etc) and there have always been some communities (the Amish for one) who don’t vaccinate but 20 or so years ago, local governments started allowing for religious or ‘moral’ or ‘personal’ exemptions. As the memory of what it’s like to live in a…

Context does matter, but you are picking and choosing what context matters to you. As it stands, white people wearing dark makeup to appear black is the continuation of a practice tied to the mocking of black people, and often enslaved Africans, in the US. That’s the context for this. More context for this, which a…

I never heard anything about religious objections to vaccines until 10 years ago or so. Was that even a thing before the anti-vax movement?

Begging the question, if MMR vaccine “causes” autism, why isn’t my generation overrun with autistic people?  Because I damn well had to have the shot if I wanted to go to school.

Pre-Andrew Wakefield, I’d wager, it was a non-issue.

Oh yes. I remember it from my own childhood in the 70s.

Yes we are pissed. Vaccinate your damn crotch goblins, neurotypicals!

There’s nothing in Judaism that prohibits medical intervention to protect life, which is what this is. It’s actually the opposite. So yes, this is anti-vax movement at work. An Orthodox family friend I talked to doesn’t frame this as a religious prohibition, just standard ‘the government is out to get us’ bullcrap.

I asked the head teacher at a preschool we’re looking at for my son what their vaccination policy is and she said in 36 years this year was the first year she’s had a student with a religious objection. Per state law here (MA) she had to admit the child. 

If I were and AI, I’d invent a game where you put humans in a giant centrifuge and spin them up to outrageous speeds, and the last one alive is the winner. 

If there’s a positive to this anti-vax bullshit, it’s the fact that those with autism (or are on the autism spectrum) are speaking out about this, and they are pissed. And all of the comments I’ve seen from those with autism inevitably advocate for vaccination. 

That’s why the new generation is so valuable.   The old progressives are just cowards.   None of them had courage enough to challenge Pelosi in a meaningful way.  

It’s because their child didn’t become “normal” so they rather blame other people or things for what happened than rather take the fucking time now, to start helping them in process of training them in skills for the future.

America is the richest fucking nation in the entire history of the goddamn world. We can do these things. We just lack the political capital and/or spine to do them.

I mean how dare a woman point out that the 19 hijackers weren’t a proxy for the whole Muslim faith?

One of the main reasons that people say that the economy is strong is because our expectations have been so lowered over the past 50 years.

“My first instinct was to protect her but they told me to step back, so I could only watch. I told them they didn’t need to do that.”