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by $8 blue check mistermix|  February 3, 20154:33 pm| 92 Comments

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Even though I can’t move, I still have my freedom. Thanks, Dr Paul!

c085c71e9fefc3c5710e9bbc75af80e7-origAfter all the kids in the Christie box are done with their toileting, Nurse Franklin leads them in a little prayer.

I’m sure you can do better.

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  1. 1.

    jl

    February 3, 2015 at 4:38 pm

    You liberals think this is funny, right? You’ll be sorry when Those People herd you into the FEMA work camps: I posted this is previous thread, but thought as many as possible should know about Rand’s warning to us all.

    Why Rand Ain’t Happening

    ‘ Now it comes out that back in 2009 Paul told InfoWars channel ‘Prison Planet TV’ that mandatory vaccines could lead to “martial law”. ‘

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-rand-aint-happening

    Edit: what will happen to our freedom if totalitarian nanny-state states pass laws that force poor oppressed food workers to wash their hands after they take a dump at work, God only knows.

    Edit2: and the soap, running water and sinks low wage food workers would have to use, well, they come out or their wages. Ever think of that? Yes you did, liberals, we can read your thoughts. Why do you hate humanity so? And hadwashing laws will be counterproductive! If they have to wash, why would they use toilet paper when their hands are easier and work just as well? You have no answer for that, do you?

  2. 2.

    Elie

    February 3, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    These pics are so powerful — so sad… that people would not realize that polio is devastating… They haven’t seen the photos of poverty stricken women all over the world lining up with their children for this vaccine. They have lived the consequences of this and many other horrible diseases… It is hard to know what to say…I am sure that none of the anti-vaxers have polio in mind when they think of “childhood diseases”. They think of some fleeting illness where their kids get a little fever and spots. They don’t think or paralysis or brain damage.

  3. 3.

    boatboy_srq

    February 3, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    OT: glad the sNoozemax headlines are gone, but what’s with the ad from Liberty University?

  4. 4.

    p.a.

    February 3, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    “I want topsies next time.”

  5. 5.

    gogol's wife

    February 3, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    @Elie:

    I remember these pictures so vividly from my childhood, and the terror they inspired.

  6. 6.

    tybee

    February 3, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    jeesus.

  7. 7.

    philpm

    February 3, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    “Thanks to Dr. Paul, our lungs are fully robotic.”

  8. 8.

    jl

    February 3, 2015 at 4:43 pm

    @philpm: We can see vaccinations harms technological progress as well.

  9. 9.

    Mr. Longform

    February 3, 2015 at 4:44 pm

    Kid in the mirror: This free-market iron lung works much better than the socialist ones I was born with.

  10. 10.

    Jamey

    February 3, 2015 at 4:44 pm

    I will not participate in this irony lung caption contest.

  11. 11.

    Mike in NC

    February 3, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    Will the faux Republican program that replaces PPACA also require nurses to go back to dressing like they did in the 1950s?

  12. 12.

    Elie

    February 3, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    No kidding! I remember the caution not to go swimming, to drink plenty of lemonade, etc. There was no bullshit about being vaccinated at school. If you didn’t have a vaccination certificate from the Board of Health, you got vaccinated. Period. We were lined up by classroom for a full range of vaccinations. I can’t remember if polio vaccine had become the liquid on the sugar cube yet… but there was no bullshit about “choice”.

  13. 13.

    Ben Cisco

    February 3, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    “We can make him better than he was…”

  14. 14.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    @gogol’s wife: I don’t remember the one at the bottom, with multiple lung chambers. The one at the top I do remember all too well. A girl from my kindergarten class was in one for a while, but we couldn’t visit her while she was there. She got sick in the fall, the Salk vaccine was administered to my class in the spring, just before I turned 6. She survived and was able to walk a little; her parents brought her for a visit near the end of the school year.

  15. 15.

    Elie

    February 3, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    People also don’t realize that polio can cause selective paralysis.. say, of just your hands, or legs.. blindness… Again, so much ignorance…

  16. 16.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 3, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    @Ben Cisco: “….we have the money, we have the technology!”

    Well, actually, no, we don’t have the money, because we squandered it on tax cuts for the rich and a couple of really stupid wars.

    As for the technology, well, no, we don’t have that, because science is evil and contrary to the word of God.

  17. 17.

    SatanicPanic

    February 3, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    This is one of those rare times I don’t feel comfortable joking about something

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    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 4:53 pm

    @Elie: I think the sugar cube Sabin vaccine was right about 1960. We got the Salk vaccine in our neighborhood in 1956, but I think it was available in 1955, just took a while to create enough to get to us.

    They used to read the list of new cases and number of dead once a week on the radio in Los Angeles. I remember being shocked by the number of people in their 30s and 40s who died. It’s funny that a little kid would only be shocked by that, but I think it was so much a part of life to hear how many kids had died that that part didn’t shock me.

  19. 19.

    Elie

    February 3, 2015 at 4:54 pm

    The other thing is that almost all viral illnesses begin with the same “cold like” symptoms with varying degrees of fever. Those that are transmitted via airborne route, get passed very early in the disease episode. Polio is not quite as infectious but again, its early presentation would not separate it from measles, or Ebola for that matter.

    Who wants their kids to suffer from something preventable (obviously not ebola yet)? Would you risk your child’s health and wellbeing for something that could be prevented? What is the benefit to your child to get these diseases? What is the payoff for them or for the family? I just don’t get it1

  20. 20.

    trollhattan

    February 3, 2015 at 4:54 pm

    FDR proves it singles out commies.

    Polio still exists in the world and I wouldn’t wish it on any child, no matter how addlepated the parents.

  21. 21.

    chopper

    February 3, 2015 at 4:54 pm

    @SatanicPanic:

    me too.

  22. 22.

    chopper

    February 3, 2015 at 4:55 pm

    ETA: changed my mind.

    the only one i could think of for the top one is “heh. he said fecal-oral“

  23. 23.

    beltane

    February 3, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    When I was a kid it was common to see adults who were blind, deaf or suffering from a host of infirmitiess caused by what are now preventable childhood diseases. In fact, it can be argued that the enormous difference between life expectancies at the beginning of the 20th century and the end of the 20th century can be attributed to universal vaccination programs and the discovery of antibiotics. With both of these things now at risk, the future may start to look more like the past.

  24. 24.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    @Elie: My kids’ pediatrician had had polio when she was a kid, just a few years before the Salk vaccine. It inspired her to become a doctor and she was excellent. When we first met her in 1970 she was walking with braces and those aluminum wrist crutches but boy when the Amigo was available she was one of the first ones to own one. My kids loved her and I have to say that on the rare occasions when she was unavailable and we got shunted to one of the other pediatricians, it was a disappointment to them.

  25. 25.

    DanR2

    February 3, 2015 at 4:58 pm

    So… this traveling salesman, worrying about a storm up ahead, stopped at the nearest farmhouse and asked if he could stay the night.

    “Sure,” the farmer said, “You’ll have to sleep with my daughter, but she’s in an iron lung.”

  26. 26.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 4:59 pm

    @beltane: The built-up shoe on one leg, attached to an aluminum brace. At one time it was not uncommon to see a couple of those in any group of 100 or more adults.

  27. 27.

    NotMax

    February 3, 2015 at 5:00 pm

    “Building iron lungs means MORE JOBS!”

    “Well, it isn’t called ‘Common Core’ for no reason….”

    @jl

    Still awaiting the telethon to stamp out Rand Paulsy.

  28. 28.

    joel hanes

    February 3, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    I remember wondering why the teachers were crying when they lined the entire elementary school up for free Sabin vaccination.

  29. 29.

    beltane

    February 3, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    @Elie: The anti-vaxxers I’ve spoken to seem to feel that 1) the vaccine is far more dangerous than the illness it prevents, and will almost certainly cause horrible side effects both in the short and long term; and 2) Diseases like Measels and Mumps are actually beneficial in strengthening a child’s immune system and promoting lifelong wellness. The underlying assumption is that their children, unlike other children, are blessed with superior genetics and cannot be harmed by anything “nature” throws their way.

  30. 30.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 3, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    Do the anti-vaxers skip polio vaccines too? Or is it just MMR?

  31. 31.

    Pogonip

    February 3, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    @Elie: They will.

  32. 32.

    bfy

    February 3, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    how about “we’re in the tank for Rand Paul”

  33. 33.

    beltane

    February 3, 2015 at 5:07 pm

    @opiejeanne: Oh God, yes. I used to see that all the time growing up in NYC. Some of these people no longer had families to support them and were reduced to begging on the street. I wonder if people who grew up in sterile suburbia where nothing bad ever happens have lost the concept of what “bad” actually is.

  34. 34.

    Marc

    February 3, 2015 at 5:08 pm

    @Mike in NC: It will if they get off on it. Nurse uniforms may be too vanilla for those wetsuit-wearing dildo inserters.

  35. 35.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 3, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    @beltane: Well, their children have white skin, therefore they do have superior genetics.

    If they’re descended from Germans, of course. You off color people whose ancestors hung around the Mediterranean don’t count.

  36. 36.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    @beltane: I grew up in sterile white suburbia and I remember that shit like it was yesterday. The sight of that iron lung at the top shocked me a bit, because while we’ve been talking about the visual reminder was jarring.

  37. 37.

    beltane

    February 3, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Pregnant women exposed to Rubella are at very high risk of giving birth to children who will be blind from birth. Mumps used to be a major cause of male infertility, etc.

  38. 38.

    beltane

    February 3, 2015 at 5:11 pm

    @opiejeanne: I should have specified “post 1980s” suburbia, the time where most of today’s young parents were born.

  39. 39.

    Butch

    February 3, 2015 at 5:12 pm

    @gogol’s wife: I was thinking that – I’m old enough to remember the “smile charts” that would be posted above the iron longs.

  40. 40.

    aimai

    February 3, 2015 at 5:15 pm

    @beltane: My cousin as born deaf as a result of her mother having rubella while she was pregnant. She must be in her fifties now. My Aunt devoted her life to raising her to be fully functional in the hearing community and she speaks and reads five languages. But it wasn’t easy.

  41. 41.

    gene108

    February 3, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    @beltane:

    I wonder if people who grew up in sterile suburbia where nothing bad ever happens have lost the concept of what “bad” actually is.

    Yes. People have forgotten what “bad” actually is.

    But I think there’s an instinctive level of paranoia in humans, as a group – maybe something to do with making sure the leopards don’t eat you at night – but if we do not have actual, material, problems staring us in the face, chunks of society will create things to become worried about.

    Whether it is vaccines or commies or GMO crops or Arabs, Japanese or Chinese businessman buying up America, I think we need to be afraid.

  42. 42.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    @joel hanes: Sabin was the sugar cube (1962), and it came out a few years after the Salk vaccine (ca 1955), which was an injection.

  43. 43.

    Violet

    February 3, 2015 at 5:22 pm

    @beltane:

    the future may start to look more like the past.

    The future is already looking like the past. We’re back to oligarchs controlling our politics, the middle class being gutted and social programs being shrunk or eliminated. Little wonder things like preventable diseases are back in the news.

  44. 44.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    @beltane: That is the problem, isn’t it. They don’t remember the way it was.

    When I was about 6 we took the train from Pasadena to Kansas City. It was a great adventure, and my dad figured out how the swivel worked so that the four of us rode facing each other. Being a nosy kid I was interested in the boy my age sitting with his mother in the seats behind ours. They were deaf. Mom had had something, measles or rubella, while pregnant with him. She could talk to us but he was unable to make himself understood verbally yet, at least to me. He made himself understood at one point by punching me in the arm, though.

  45. 45.

    piratedan

    February 3, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    and tell us which child will be in the secret square today Johnny?

    It’s amazing that these fuckers can continuously pine for Leave It To Beaver land and simply forget that this was part and parcel of the package….

  46. 46.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 3, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    @beltane: Yes, I know. Believe me, I think not vaccinating is child neglect. I just want to know how far it extends.

  47. 47.

    blueskies

    February 3, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    So asshole Rand Paul CLAIMS that he’s heard of or knows of or experienced MANY, NUMEROUS, SEVERAL, HAPPENS-ALL-THE-FUCKING-TIME cases of kids who were NORMAL one day and then severely neurologically damaged the next, ALL because of vaccinations.

    And not ONE motherfucking talkinghead asks him, “Yeah really? Where are the case studies? Newspaper reports? Hospital records? Interviews with sobbing parents? Any proof at all?”

    If these people were kids in Paul’s lifetime, then many, if not most, should still be alive. Where are they?

    They don’t exist.

    He’s making it up.

    And it should be obvious, hell, IS obvious, to everyone.

    Yet not ONE so-called reporter is asking him the simple question: What proof do you have of this happening?

  48. 48.

    Mike in NC

    February 3, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    @beltane: Back in the day, rich kids attending prep schools in the US and UK were encouraged to take cold showers because they built character.

  49. 49.

    JCT

    February 3, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    I did my residency in one of the big Manhattan hospitals. In one of the very old multi-bedded wards they still had a bunch of iron lungs lined up. The senior docs described what it was like when they had many of these rooms all filled with patients in iron lungs. Horrifying. My brother in law was born in ’48 and he said summers in NYC as a child before the vaccine were simply terrifying.

    These anti-vaxxers are a special kind of idiot.

  50. 50.

    Capri

    February 3, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    My father worked at Lederle laboratories in the 1950’s where the first effective oral polio vaccine.was developed. As soon as there was some available, he gave it to my sister and I. I was a newborn at the time and was given the vaccine in my bottle. The fact my father was willing to give his children a completely experimental, non-regulated, non-anything viral vaccine speaks to how terrified people were of the possibility of coming down with polio.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Koprowski

  51. 51.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 3, 2015 at 5:33 pm

    Another question: Didn’t the ACA say insurance had to cover vaccinations with no co-pay? Am I remembering that right?

  52. 52.

    Baud

    February 3, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    @beltane:

    the future may start to look more like the past.

    Relevant (via Reddit)

    http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2unklr/history_repeats_itself_antivac_comic_from_the/

  53. 53.

    catclub

    February 3, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Back in the day, rich kids attending prep schools in the US and UK were encouraged to take cold showers because they built character.

    Everything old is new again. Go look for Reihan Salam’s article in Slate on his chilly apartment.
    Or other items on keeping thin through being cold(er).

    http://www.slate.com/articles/life/low_concept/2015/01/turn_down_your_heat_don_t_do_it_for_the_planet_do_it_for_you.html

  54. 54.

    jl

    February 3, 2015 at 5:35 pm

    @blueskies: It would be disrespectful. And he would just tell you shush up and let him talk if you did ask any hard questions and you happened to be person with lady parts trying to be journalist (how cute, look a lady trying to do man;s work!).

  55. 55.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    @piratedan: Oh, I ran across one loon pushing his anti-vax book on a forum, and he kept telling people to look at the way measles and chickenpox was portrayed in sitcoms! As if that was all the truth anyone needs. Of course a sitcom wasn’t going to show anything more horrifying from measles than missing the prom, and those spots the kids got were never that bad of a rash. Very cosmetic, nothing to worry about. The kid with the disease was never shown to be in much distress other than a low fever, maybe. They always recovered without any harm being done.

    Ugh. Was just reminded of the chickenpox party when my girls were little. I didn’t let them go because I didn’t want them to have it period. The neighboring moms thought I was silly. My kids all got it the following year when the youngest was in kindergarten, including my son during his Freshman year of college. So, for six weeks I had sick kids, one coming down with it as soon as the previous had recovered. Thankfully they weren’t terribly sick and when the first one, the youngest, got bored I sat her down in the backyard with a bag of peanuts and showed her how to get the scrub jay in our garden to lose his fear of us. By the time the third kid was done that bird was landing on his lap.

  56. 56.

    Violet

    February 3, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    @opiejeanne:

    That is the problem, isn’t it. They don’t remember the way it was.

    It’s not that they don’t remember–they weren’t even alive when it was bad. They can’t remember. The Salk vaccine has been around for a long time–long enough that most parents of young kids don’t even have parents who weren’t vaccinated against polio.

    So today’s young parents have to take the word of others about how bad it was. How these diseases they’ve never seen, that no one they’ve ever known has had, are worth preventing. Convincing people of that isn’t all that easy. And when you add to it the anti-vaxxers–and there are plenty of those people around, who believe their kids were harmed by vaccines–it makes it that much harder.

    Maybe we need programs where those who remember the bad childhood diseases go into schools and talk about how bad it was. Like Holocaust survivors have done. Maybe Ken Burns should do a documentary on it that’s required viewing in school. Maybe doctors and schools should have parents sign forms with all the dangers of the childhood diseases listed, along with pictures of the kids affected.

    Our vaccinations have been so successful no one believes they’re still or necessary.

  57. 57.

    Elie

    February 3, 2015 at 5:38 pm

    @opiejeanne:

    I didn’t know anyone who became ill, but I remember my Mom being worried and talking to my grandmother about keeping my sis and I healthy.

    Adults who get polio frequently have permanent problems.. this is a serious disease that should be avoided…. BTW — polio is an enterovirus that is transmitted in human poop.. beware of failed septic systems as a means for transmitting this disease if vaccination rates keep dropping…

  58. 58.

    raven

    February 3, 2015 at 5:38 pm

    Paul just walked it back and said he didn’t say what he said.

  59. 59.

    hedgehog the occasional commenter

    February 3, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    @opiejeanne: I remember getting the sugar cube vaccination. We went to the Shrine hall in the town I grew up in; huge crowd, nurses handing out little paper cup after little paper cup of the vaccine. I think I was 5 or 6 (I turned 5 in 1963–yep, makes me an Old). I remember my mom talking about swimming pools shutting down for the summer because of polio.

  60. 60.

    raven

    February 3, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    And Dr Nancy Sneiderman, who ignored her Ebola quarantine, is on as an expert. That is helpful.

  61. 61.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    @blueskies: One did on CNBC, and he told her to calm down. Not a good way to talk to an interviewer, especially a woman.

  62. 62.

    jim

    February 3, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    I’m sorry, but I get no humor out of this, only a bitter reminder of how cynical, stupid and perverse the republican party has become.

  63. 63.

    beltane

    February 3, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    @Violet: A Ken Burns documentary would be great idea. It should also encompass the struggle to create some kind of public health system, a fight led by heroes such as Sara Josephine Baker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Josephine_Baker

  64. 64.

    Baud

    February 3, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    @raven:

    Paul just walked it back and said he didn’t say what he said.

    Since Paul does that with every issue, I’m going to assume based on the context that “it” refers to his recent comments about vaccinations.

  65. 65.

    beltane

    February 3, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    @Elie: Well, the good Senator from North Carolina doesn’t think restaurant employees should be required to wash their hands after using the lavatory so the Republicans have that angle covered.

  66. 66.

    Bill D.

    February 3, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    @beltane: No shit… errr…. nevermind.

  67. 67.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    @Elie: That’s why they got it at the public pools! If I knew that about how it spread, I had forgotten until just now, and I never made the connection between poop and the pools until now. Or maybe I did. I have CRS days: Can’t Remember Shit.

  68. 68.

    Violet

    February 3, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    @raven: I think she’s on contract with NBC and they’re just waiting out her contract by giving her the fewest number of appearances possible. The Today Show has begun using another female doctor much more than Nancy Snyderman. I don’t expect her contract to be renewed.

  69. 69.

    Baud

    February 3, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/factsheets/2010/09/The-Affordable-Care-Act-and-Immunization.html

  70. 70.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 5:57 pm

    @hedgehog the occasional commenter: I got both the Salk and the Sabin. They handed out the sugar cubes in paper cups at a jr high on a weekend in either 62 or 63. I don’t know when my parents were vaccinated for polio prior, but they got it that day.

  71. 71.

    JaneE

    February 3, 2015 at 5:57 pm

    I knew one of the “lucky” polio victims. Leg brace but limping under her own power with occasional use of crutches when she was especially tired. The saddest part was watching her look at kids her age who could play dodge-ball or hopscotch, or just run around the playground, and listen to her cheer for her sister and her teammates at softball. And, of course, she was an exceptionally beautiful girl, as if that could make up for anything.

  72. 72.

    Elie

    February 3, 2015 at 5:57 pm

    @beltane:

    Yeah, saw that… honestly — what can one say??????

  73. 73.

    JCT

    February 3, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    @raven: Now there’s a surprise. Isn’t the nonsense about “severe mental illnesses” on tape? What a waste of protoplasm that guy.

  74. 74.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    @beltane: Oh but Ken Burns is a liberal, and we can’t be having with liberal doctrine being forced on our children!

    I couldn’t believe the nonsense spouted about his baseball documentary.

  75. 75.

    Violet

    February 3, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    @raven: Oh, for fuck’s sake. I just looked her up, found her Twitter feed and this was her latest tweet:

    Why should the measles outbreak scare us? Because it goes to the core of why public health is everyone's responsibility @NBCNightlyNews— Dr. Nancy Snyderman (@DrNancyNBCNEWS) February 3, 2015

    Seriously? She has no shame.

  76. 76.

    opiejeanne

    February 3, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    @JaneE: Do you remember the adults shaking their heads sadly, because she’d never be able to get married?

  77. 77.

    Elie

    February 3, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    @opiejeanne:

    Yep — poop but also saliva, etc…

    From the CDC:

    Pathogenesis

    The virus enters through the mouth, and primary multiplication
    of the virus occurs at the site of implantation in
    the pharynx and gastrointestinal tract. The virus is usually
    present in the throat and in the stool before the onset of
    illness. One week after onset there is less virus in the throat,
    but virus continues to be excreted in the stool for several
    weeks. The virus invades local lymphoid tissue, enters
    the bloodstream, and then may infect cells of the central
    nervous system. Replication of poliovirus in motor neurons
    of the anterior horn and brain stem results in cell destruction
    and causes the typical manifestations of poliomyelitis

    Handwashing is a good thing!

  78. 78.

    grandpa john

    February 3, 2015 at 6:07 pm

    The big problem here is that most of these idiot anti-vaxxers won’t even understand the horror implicated in these pictures as they are younger, born after the development of polio vaccines so they don’t even know what they are looking at. Probably they have never heard of the iron lung and and have no knowledge of what went on in the days before polio vaccines

  79. 79.

    WereBear

    February 3, 2015 at 6:25 pm

    @grandpa john: They are dismissive of measles which can kill and maim. They think their child’s immune system can fight off tetanus.

    They are stupid.

  80. 80.

    PurpleGirl

    February 3, 2015 at 6:29 pm

    In my mid-30s I was going through a phase of having strep throat every few weeks. My doctor was concerned because strep throat can lead to heart problems. My then boss was upset with the time I was taking off. Didn’t want to comprehend the implications of strep throat. (Thank goo, when I changed jobs I stopped being sick. Doctor told me that stress can bring on strep throat if it’s hiding.)

  81. 81.

    NotMax

    February 3, 2015 at 6:41 pm

    Also it should be noted that polio survivors are at significant risk, decades later, of post-polio syndrome.

    There are currently no effective pharmaceutical treatments that can stop deterioration or reverse the deficits caused by the syndrome itself.…
    [snip]
    Polio survivors often ask if there is a way to prevent the development of PPS. Presently, no intervention has been found to stop the deterioration of surviving neurons. Source

  82. 82.

    philpm

    February 3, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    @beltane: I fully expect that when one of their perfect snowflakes is horribly disfigured by one of these diseases that they’ve allowed to come back to prominence by their ignorance, they’ll be the first in line filing a lawsuit against the government for making the vaccines to “dangerous” to give their kids and causing them to get infected in turn.

  83. 83.

    jharp

    February 3, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    That has to be one of the most depressing pictures I have ever seen.

    My folks had friends who were polio victims and used to talk about how everyone was so terrible frightened of it.

    Can’t say I blame them. What a dreadful disease.

  84. 84.

    jharp

    February 3, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    “Didn’t the ACA say insurance had to cover vaccinations with no co-pay? Am I remembering that right?”

    Yes.

  85. 85.

    Scott Alloway

    February 3, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    @gogol’s wife: I remember them too. I was a March of Dimes volunteer at 10, going door-to-door with a collection box. The iron lung images still cause a shiver, and I’m an old, hardened guy, having been a social worker and journalist these past four+ decades.

  86. 86.

    BruceFromOhio

    February 3, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    @SatanicPanic: This.

    Sorry, kids, I know its a target-rich environment, its just beyond the pale. Preventable diseases that totally fuck up people’s lives just isn’t that funny. These snowflake people should be isolated and alienated, not laughed at.

    Dr. My-Children-Are-Pure and his family need intervention, now.

    ETA: Picture a scene where a cancer vaccine is discovered, and made available tomorrow.

  87. 87.

    blueskies

    February 3, 2015 at 8:28 pm

    @opiejeanne: Yeah, I just came across that. I swear, it really would take very little to keep these creeps out of office if we just had a decent press. His “severe mental illnesses” bullshit should be brought up at EVERY press conference until he publicly apologizes over and over and over and over. THEN they should start in on his shushing the ONE reporter who first called him on it, and make his apologize all over again.

    And then shave him bald on the the evening news and toss him naked into ice water. Hey, ’cause as someone pointed out up-thread, it builds character and he needs all the help he can get in that department.

    I still just cannot believe that this guy is a US Senator.

  88. 88.

    Sad_Dem

    February 3, 2015 at 9:14 pm

    My partner has had grave health issues throughout her life because her mother got rubella while pregnant. The antivaxxers must be mercilessly ridiculed and defeated.

  89. 89.

    JaneE

    February 3, 2015 at 10:55 pm

    @opiejeanne: Not really. She was about 5 or 6 years younger, I was friends with her big sister. I did see her once when she was in high school. The leg brace was a lot smaller, and the limp a lot less noticeable. She did a lot of rehab. Still beautiful, though. I did see an engagement notice a few years after that in the paper. She did consider herself lucky, some of the kids from her hospital stay wound up in iron lungs. When we were playing board games or dolls or “girly” things, she was just one of us (the younger pesty sister version). But it still made me feel sorry that she couldn’t do everything, and she dearly wanted to be able to play hopscotch. Why that particularly, I don’t know. Maybe because we all would up looking awkward and falling over half the time. The Salk vaccine came out just about a year after she got to come home.

  90. 90.

    David Koch

    February 4, 2015 at 2:33 am

    but, but… Rand Paul opposes Drooooonzez!

  91. 91.

    Andrew

    February 4, 2015 at 8:25 pm

    The latest in Anti-Vaxxer’s Children’s fashion including this sweet little ensemble from the Jenny McCarthy Range

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