Upping the Ante (vaxx)…

See what I did there?  In an article in the Washington Post here 

The anti-vaxx movement has upped the ante in there campaign of misleading and out-right horribly inaccurate information:

In a suburban shopping center an hour north of New York City, hundreds of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered in a sex-partitioned ballroom to hear leaders of the national anti-vaccine movement. Sustained applause greeted Del Bigtree, a former television-producer-turned-activist who often wears a yellow star , similar to those required of Jews in Nazi Germany, to show solidarity with parents ordered to keep unvaccinated children at home.

Ok, this is a great start, showing up to talk at a rally with the yellow star of the holocaust on his jacket to speak against science.  First off it is people like him that are unleashing a disease holocaust on the rest of us, including those unborn children we care about, but no he’s the victim here.  Look on a mental health note, playing the victim is the worst form of manipulation and quite frankly gets old.  There is no doubt that the Jewish people were victims in the holocaust, making them vaccinate themselves against disease is not persecution.  But this gets better.

Bigtree describedthe purported dangers ofchildhood vaccines in phrases that also conjured the Nazis. Del Bigtree speaks against New York legislation to narrow vaccine exemptions during a May 14 rally at the State Capitol in Albany. “They have turned our children into the largest human experiment in history — all of history,” he said.

Wow, see this is the kind of behavior providers have to almost over educate their patients about, just to be out done by the internet.  Sorry my degree is more involved than you google search.

The turnout last week in this suburb hard hit by measles helps explain why New York has become ground zero in one of this country’s largest and longest-lasting measles outbreaks in nearly 30 years. Even in a religious community grappling with more than 700 cases in Rockland County and New York City since last fall — among them, children on oxygen in intensive-care units — anxious and confused parents said they came because they are afraid of vaccines and seeking guidance about what to do.

Ethan, a 36-year-old father of six from Queens who declined to give his last name, said he attended the event out of “a genuine concern” for his family, driven by his wife’s research into vaccines. She had read “a lot of literature” and watched Bigtree’s film, which accuses the government of covering up a purported link between the measles vaccine and autism — a tie repeatedly disproved by studies around the world involving hundreds of thousands of children.

As a result, Ethan said, measles frightened him far less than what Bigtree and others described as the toxic substances in vaccines.

This last bit is where the problem truly lies.

Look, I am all about doing your research and asking questions and working with your provider to develop an understanding.  You owe it to yourself to be educated on the conditions you may have and the medications you are taking. You should ask.  If you have a chronic disease there may be support groups or support pages that will help you deal with them.  Remember kids the internet is not a diagnostic tool and it should never replace your provider.  Anyway, take a look at this.  Please get vaccinated, trust me even the worst side effects from the vaccine are far less than actually getting the disease. I don’t tell porn stars how to do porn, they definitely should not be telling me how to do medicine.