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    PfffffbbbbytttttdjshdgYvette d'Entremont
    7/16/15 2:31pm

    I am an immune-compromised person who cannot take certain vaccines. People not vaccinating their kids are putting people like me in fucking danger. I catch every little bug that goes around, and things can get ugly really fast for me. Hospitals are awful, because despite me needing to be in them from time to time, I’ve contracted nosocomial infections on a couple of instances. Me getting the measles, mumps, pertussis or the flu could easily fucking kill me with all of the health issues I have. It’s not just about their kids, it’s a public safety issue.

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      MyOceanPfffffbbbbytttttdjshdg
      7/16/15 2:45pm

      Have you ever talked to an anti-vaxx person to see why they think it’s cool to put your health at risk? I’m honestly curious what they’d say face-to-face to someone who can’t get vaccinated.

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      TimF101MyOcean
      7/16/15 2:49pm

      They say that your health is nothing next to the imagined safety of their special little dumpling. With no hesitation.

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    GrilledCheeseonSourdoughYvette d'Entremont
    7/16/15 2:21pm

    Ah yes, liberals fighting the right to choose.

    (I support vaccinating your kids but also enjoy the irony here)

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      TheEvilAttorneyGrilledCheeseonSourdough
      7/16/15 2:37pm

      Since the Democratic CA legislature and Democratic governor passed this bill, clearly the party line is pro-mandatory vaccines.

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      GrilledCheeseonSourdoughTheEvilAttorney
      7/16/15 2:40pm

      So they would not give someone the right to choose?

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    Bitch PuddingYvette d'Entremont
    7/16/15 2:31pm

    Insightful article, but I think I’m going to trust the Google research of Hayden’s mom, the 24-year-old receptionist whose twitter description is “Mother.”

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      SpringSprungBitch Pudding
      7/16/15 2:47pm

      Be thankful she didn’t add “Earth” to her handle.

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      Yuppie ScumBitch Pudding
      7/16/15 3:10pm

      I shit you not, I saw a linkedin profile of someone in my graduate program that wrote:

      “Stay at home mom 2009-2011

      - Prepared meals with increasing success in accordance with FDA guidelines
      - Managed schedule of three-person household
      - Coordinated appointments of all household members
      - Performed inventory and acquisition tasks for all common household consumable items”

      And this person was completely serious. She also couldn’t get it through her neolithic skull why it was unacceptable to copy and paste text from websites and claim it as original research.

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    KK LawsYvette d'Entremont
    7/16/15 2:48pm

    My husband has advanced MS. He was also a doctor, I’m a nurse. I do hold my breath a bit every time our children receive a vaccination but we’ve never discussed to even delay the schedule of vaccines. I’ve worked with every pediatrician in our town and every single one of them have vaccinated their children. I get so angry when people throw up non evidenced based, non researched based medical crap. Next up, let's discuss the snake oil called Essential Oils...

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      DianaWoodKK Laws
      7/16/15 3:07pm

      It drives me nuts too, people should be fined for not vaccinating themselves and their kids. Maybe if we hit their pocketbooks they’ll finally wake up.

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      ElrondHubbardKK Laws
      7/16/15 3:33pm

      If you are both medical professionals, why are you holding your breath?

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    SocialJusticeWarriorPrincessYvette d'Entremont
    7/16/15 2:40pm

    My 12 month old just got her MMR vaccine today and I feel like throwing a fucking party. Thanks anti-vaxxers for adding MEASLES to the list of things I have to worry my daughter will get.

    Assholes.

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      Aimee TerravechiaSocialJusticeWarriorPrincess
      7/16/15 2:57pm

      My daughter also got hers at 12 months. She had a fever for two days and woke up screaming about 6 times, having to be held until she calmed down. It was fucking miserable, but necessary. And you know what? It made me hate anti vaxxers more because they get to opt out of that experience because of bullshit reasons.

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      Yoga Nerd, Maybe DeadSocialJusticeWarriorPrincess
      7/16/15 3:02pm

      Yay! Mine gets his next Monday! Vaccine partay!!!

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    Yoga Nerd, Maybe DeadYvette d'Entremont
    7/16/15 3:00pm

    In fact, we lose money on giving vaccines to our patients. We do it because it’s the right thing to do.

    This is 100% true, guys. The reality is vaccines costs more than many insurers reimburse. Please understand how completely ridiculous the BigPharmaBucks™ claim is.

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      DianaWoodYoga Nerd, Maybe Dead
      7/16/15 3:09pm

      Not only is it the right thing to do, but it will also prevent disease that in the long run will end up costing money to those who refuse the vaccine anyway. It’s a no brainer. Maybe conservatives have negative brains.

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      Jujymonkey3Yoga Nerd, Maybe Dead
      7/16/15 3:15pm

      Why is that Doc? Wouldn’t the sheer volume of use keep the prices down?

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    kafrometYvette d'Entremont
    7/16/15 2:24pm

    “My Child. My Choice.”

    No you idiot. You don’t get to make stupid decisions that put other people in jeopardy.

    I can’t choose to drive my car down the left side of the highway because I think that the law violates my Freedom of Movement.

    We all abdicate certain freedoms to maintain the safety of the group. It’s called society.

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      Trevor PhillipsYvette d'Entremont
      7/16/15 2:31pm

      I, for one, welcome the collapse of western civilization due to stupidity such as this.

      /injects myself with chemtrail fluoride mind control RFID chip vaccine sponsored by the Fed Reserve and Ruport Murdoch

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        FeralFrigidSlutTrevor Phillips
        7/16/15 3:15pm

        Soros, not Murdoch.

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        Trevor PhillipsFeralFrigidSlut
        7/16/15 3:22pm

        touche

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      HolliedazzleYvette d'Entremont
      7/16/15 3:24pm

      I'm practically in tears with frustration by the end of every article like this. I just can't understand why you wouldn't protect your child. Does everyone of these people have to watch their dad live his life crippled by polio to get it? Or watch him die of influenza? I was provacccine my whole life(shout it to my hero Joseph Salk)....I'm just...without words.

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        UpperGorgeDonlonHolliedazzle
        7/16/15 4:47pm

        I was born five years before the Dr. Salk’s vaccine was available. My mother feared polio above all other “children’s” diseases because her brother died at 16 due to polio. When the vaccine became available she celebrated. She got us vaccinated as soon as she could and told us how lucky we were not to ever have to fear polio. Even as a little girl I understood what a gift this vaccine was, after all I had a preschool classmate who wore heavy leg braces and had to drag herself around the classroom. Dr. Salk’s work made my mother so very happy and eliminated her greatest fear for her children. The anti-vaxxers suffer from a failure of imagination - must you actually see the effects of polio before you understand the devastation caused before the vaccine? Believe me, if you experienced those now preventable diseases as a child you would never skip a vaccination for your child. And measles? My sister was so sick she believed she saw spiders crawling up our bedroom walls.

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        SquidEatinDoughHolliedazzle
        7/16/15 4:53pm

        *Jonas Salk.

        ;)

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      cuntybawsYvette d'Entremont
      7/16/15 2:23pm

      A selfishie

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