It Might Still Just Be Bronchitis.

[kungfuwaynewho]

Dear parents who have chosen not to vaccinate your children:

Thank you. No, really. Thank you for choosing to believe one single study, that has since been discredited and its author stripped of his medical license, over every other medical professional's opinion. Thank you for watching a segment on the Today Show and basing your decisions on that eight-minute stretch. Thank you for reading Jenny McCarthy's book and thinking, "Yeah, she's onto something."

Thank you for dragging your sick children out into public, as well. That's a vital part of this whole equation.

Thank you for all of that, because I probably have whooping cough. WHOOPING COUGH. A disease that was practically non-existent in this country because enough people were vaccinated against it, keeping those who weren't (me, as a baby, because I had a horrific reaction to the shot) safe through herd immunity. Thank you for destroying the entire concept of herd immunity. Thank you for making idiotic decisions that not only threaten the life of your own children, but also the lives of all the people your children come into contact with.

XOXwlejiafo;eiji;eoa

Sorry.  Just had a coughing fit. At least this time I didn't run out of breath or start wheezing or get dizzy or vomit because of it.

Anyway, XOXO. Yeah.

Comments

[hollywobbles.livejournal.com]

*look of absolute horror*

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Yeah, man. I've had a cough for about ten days now, and I should have gone to the doctor last week, but I kept thinking, "I'm almost over it by now, surely." Today was really bad. At one point a patron's like, wow, you sound like I did! When I had the whooping cough! And I was like, lol no I don't have that, that's silly. No one gets that anymore.

I go to the doctor, she's like, "hopefully it's just bronchitis." *talks for thirty minutes about managing symptoms of whooping cough* I have two different inhalers, steroids, ~special cough syrup, and some antibiotics just in case.

Because if it is whooping cough? I'll be coughing for another four to five weeks. ://///

[hollywobbles.livejournal.com]

That. Is horrifying. I don't even know anything about whooping cough, except that it sounds quaintly old fashioned in a this-disease-probably-killed-ppl-in-the-victorian-era sort of way.

I don't really get people who stop vaccinating their children or, say, drinking pasteurized milk because some article says there's some minor downside to doing it. Like, are your memories and comprehension of history so fuzzy that you do not realize we do those things because people were dying before we started doing them?

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

No kidding. There's polio outbreaks again. Jesus.

HAHA my sister was totally like "it's so exciting that you probably have a 19th century disease, pls don't cough on me thx." It's really not that awful, it's just a very persistent cough I can't shake; really, the only people at actual risk are babies, the elderly, and those with depressed immune systems. I am none of those things, so it's okay. But yeah, still. There's no reason for this disease to even still exist!

There's a website called Jenny McCarthy Bodycount and it is so true.

[nenya_kanadka]

Seriously. Did they not get history in school? How much of a big f'ing deal it was when vaccines were invented and OMG, suddenly we were less vulnerable to these horrible diseases that used to kill/harm people at great rates?

Same thing with pasteurizing milk. Google Louis Pasteur, man.