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Title: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: MillCreek on June 21, 2019, 10:36:10 AM
https://jezebel.com/everything-i-learned-while-getting-kicked-out-of-americ-1834992879

I certainly have the occasional contact with anti-vaccine parents through work, but I had no idea that they had an annual conference.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: WLJ on June 21, 2019, 10:40:05 AM
I didn't want to read all that but I did do a search to see if Alex Jones was mentioned.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: brimic on June 21, 2019, 10:50:55 AM
(https://pics.me.me/buying-toys-for-your-kids-making-toys-for-your-kids-38997409.png)
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: makattak on June 21, 2019, 10:59:47 AM
I can't help but wonder how many of the presenters actually believe what they are pushing and how many are just conning vulnerable people.


It's sad. There are a lot of things that we simply don't know about the body and disease. (E.g. Alzheimer's, Autism, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, etc...)

Humans don't like that. We don't like being told "We simply don't know why." So a conspiracy is easier to accept.

(Ironically, how vaccines work is one of the things we understand very well.)

The long term effects of this movement concern me about the implications for herd immunity. I really don't want to live in a world where Polio and Measles are killers once more.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: WLJ on June 21, 2019, 11:01:25 AM
I really don't want to live in a world where Polio and Measles are killers once more.

I have almost no doubt someone somewhere in the MSM will blame Trump
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: Ron on June 21, 2019, 11:07:20 AM
I can't help but wonder how many of the presenters actually believe what they are pushing and how many are just conning vulnerable people.


It's sad. There are a lot of things that we simply don't know about the body and disease. (E.g. Alzheimer's, Autism, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, etc...)

Humans don't like that. We don't like being told "We simply don't know why." So a conspiracy is easier to accept.

(Ironically, how vaccines work is one of the things we understand very well.)

The long term effects of this movement concern me about the implications for herd immunity. I really don't want to live in a world where Polio and Measles are killers once more.
Polio and measles were pretty much wiped out in the USA until we started ignoring the throngs of illegal aliens streaming into the nation.

Part of immigrating here should include being cleared of highly contagious diseases.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: brimic on June 21, 2019, 11:18:52 AM
Polio and measles were pretty much wiped out in the USA until we started ignoring the throngs of illegal aliens streaming into the nation.

Part of immigrating here should include being cleared of highly contagious diseases.

People forget that Ellis Island was a quarantine station, not a corridor of unlimited migration.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: makattak on June 21, 2019, 02:06:19 PM
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-06-20/us-cases-of-infant-gut-illness-plummet-after-vaccine-introduced

Related, and it even mentions the anti-Vaccine movement in the article.

I wasn't aware that rotovirus was a new vaccine.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: MillCreek on June 21, 2019, 02:22:31 PM
My favorite part of the conference is that it seems to be held concurrently with the HPV Vaccine Injury conference, which is most likely made up of personal injury lawyers trolling for clients.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 21, 2019, 03:10:54 PM
Anti-vax and garage sales? ???
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: makattak on June 21, 2019, 03:19:03 PM
Anti-vax and garage sales? ???

I surmise the comic implies that the anti-vax people will eventually become convinced that some part of everything they own will kill them/their children so they will sell off nearly new items with regularity.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: brimic on June 21, 2019, 03:21:03 PM
Anti-vax and garage sales? ???

Their kids die of an easily preventable disease at a young age.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: MillCreek on June 21, 2019, 03:21:50 PM
^^^I see it more as after the anti-vax children die from diseases that could have been prevented by vaccination, the parents will sell off the toys of their now-dead children.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: makattak on June 21, 2019, 03:43:10 PM
^^^I see it more as after the anti-vax children die from diseases that could have been prevented by vaccination, the parents will sell off the toys of their now-dead children.

I wasn't thinking dark enough humor. You're probably right.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: brimic on June 21, 2019, 04:46:15 PM
I wasn't thinking dark enough humor. You're probably right.

(https://pics.me.me/dark-humor-is-like-food-not-everyone-gets-it-35032125.png)
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: RoadKingLarry on June 21, 2019, 06:48:02 PM
(https://pics.me.me/dark-humor-is-like-food-not-everyone-gets-it-35032125.png)

And it never gets old, just like lots of un-vaccinated kids.
Title: Re: Jezebel goes to the AutismOne conference
Post by: Jamisjockey on June 22, 2019, 06:18:12 PM
Not politics, despite some members trying to make it so.  And the tenor of this thread's direction is questionable.
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