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Yeah ummm get yourself and your kids vaccinated.Saw numerous news clips and web stories in last 2 days about parents asking for advice since they never had their kids vaccinated...
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Yeah ummm get yourself and your kids vaccinated.Saw numerous news clips and web stories in last 2 days about parents asking for advice since they never had their kids vaccinated...
Saw numerous news clips and web stories in last 2 days about parents asking for advice since they never had their kids vaccinated...
Add intra-family strife to the consequences of anti-vax:Ethan Lindenberger, frustrated by years of arguments about his mother’s anti-vaccination stance, staged a quiet defection on Reddit.
The Norwalk, Ohio, teenager needed advice, he said, on how to inoculate himself against both infectious disease and his family’s dogma. At 18, he was old enough, Lindenberger explained. He wanted to get vaccinated. But he didn’t know how.
“Because of their beliefs I’ve never been vaccinated for anything, God knows how I’m still alive,” Lindenberger wrote days before Thanksgiving.
As anti-vaccination movements metastasize amid outbreaks of dangerous diseases, Internet-savvy teenagers are fact-checking their parents’ decisions in a digital health reawakening — and seeking their own treatments in bouts of family defiance.
“This generation of unvaccinated children coming of age has looked at the science and want to protect themselves,” said Allison Winnike, president and chief executive of the Immunization Partnership, a Texas-based nonprofit vaccine advocacy group.
Anti-vaccination efforts spread after the publication of a now-debunked 1998 study linking some immunizations to autism, Winnike said.
“Now you’re seeing children coming of age, out from a cloud of misinformation,” Winnike told The Washington Post on Monday.
“I looked into it; it was clear there was way more evidence in defense of vaccines,” he said.
His mother, Jill Wheeler, resisted; she claimed vaccines are health risks.
Wheeler was angered by his pursuit, she told Undark. “It was like him spitting on me, saying ‘You don’t know anything, I don’t trust you with anything. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You did make a bad decision and I’m gonna go fix it,’ ” she told the site.
It's not "like" that, Jill. It is that.It was like him spitting on me, saying ‘You don’t know anything, I don’t trust you with anything. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You did make a bad decision and I’m gonna go fix it
These kids will likely find that this isn’t the only thing their parents know very little about.It's not "like" that, Jill. It is that.
You mean like the whole world isn’t one large X-file?These kids will likely find that this isn’t the only thing their parents know very little about.
Yes that’s exactly what some of these folks think. Also Deep State. Also QAnon. Loons.You mean like the whole world isn’t one large X-file?
Ain’t just righty religious folks either...the hippie dippie Jenny McCarthy granola set makes strange bedfellows in this caseYes that’s exactly what some of these folks think. Also Deep State. Also QAnon. Loons.