Families urged to get MMR jabs to stop measles outbreak. (BBC)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp94mgl9824o
Posted by ac0rn5
Families urged to get MMR jabs to stop measles outbreak. (BBC)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp94mgl9824o
Posted by ac0rn5
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Please for the love of all that is sane please get your children vaccinated: it protects your children and protect those children who are unable to vaccinated because of their medical conditions.
I’m not in anyway an “anti vaxxer” but the Health Leaders decrying this should take a long look at themselves and the way the past 5 years was handled.
You don’t win public trust with coercion, deception and manipulation. You just fuel the fires of doubt.
Call them idiots all you want, but it’s just not helpful when you need them on board
It should be classed as child abuse to not get the MMR jab.
Who knew that rejecting facts and reason would lead to bad things?
One of the real eye-openers of COVID was before then I just thought antivaxxers were merely misinformed. That they’d simply missed that lesson in GCSE science about smallpox and cowpox and how vaccines broadly worked. I believed the problem of vaccine hesitancy could be fixed by providing high quality information in an understandable way. I believed it to be a purely education issue and naively thought it could be fixed just by providing people with the correct information.
2019 through 2022 showed us that the problem is far worse, and far more insidious. People are willingly, deliberately and intentionally ignoring good science. They’re putting their faith in uneducated nobodies, frauds, fakes, and memes on Facebook or they’re simply rebelling against *any* kind of instruction even when it’s in their own interest.
If it was up to me, if a child died because of a readily preventable disease for which we have good vaccines and there wasn’t any medical issue why they couldn’t be inoculated, the parents would be prosecuted for neglect. I wouldn’t ever push the idea of forcing them, but allowing them to come to harm as a result of their willing ignorance is criminal.
I wonder what Andrew Wakefield’s body count is at this point
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The idea that internet conspiracies drive this currently just isn’t true.
Conspiracy thinking is pretty rare in the current generation of parents, they actually have the least vaccine hesitancy of any social group.
Childhood vaccine hesitancy is currently mostly just that and caused by a bit of ignorance “MMR? I’ve heard bad things about that.” It’s also not helped by things like appointments being too far away or poorly organised: most public health experts agree that if the NHS made vaccines more accessible they could whack on a few percentage points to rates, even more if you actually had a family doctor you could speak to about it, rather than a carousel of anonymous GPs or physicians assistants, it’s speculated that might solve the problem significantly.
Now if you look at vaccine resistance in under 21s that’s where things get scary!
Should be no ‘urging’ involved.
Show up at this time for your child’s vaccination. If you fail to show then they’ll come and do it at home.
Should be treated as the neglect issue it is, time to stop pissing around.
Why does American stupidity always find its way to British shores.
Sadly anti-vaxx sentiment isn’t new. It’s been around since vaccines were invented.
In the 1800s there were anti vaxx marches in Leicester where they were burning effigies of Edward Jenner in the streets.
People haven’t changed, they just make up new reasons to hate vaccines.
Back then it was vaccines are devils work, or they are made from scraping cowpox pus so how could they be safe. Now it’s vaccines cause autism and turn frogs gay.
And in the case of polio vaccines in the few countries where polio still exists – it’s a western conspiracy to hurt the locals.
Some absolute nonce is out there making money off feeding people lies they want to hear to justify their own decisions to avoid vaccines.
Many people are misinformed and mistakenly believe that vaccines cause autism. I would rather my child have autism than risk going blind, deaf, becoming infertile, or even dying from measles. Vaccines exist for a reason. I think it’s important to show the consequences of not vaccinating, such as the old, graphic videos of measles outbreaks. While these videos may be shocking, they can help illustrate the dangers of ignoring vaccinations. Parents can choose not to vaccinate, but I would prefer my child be protected from these preventable diseases.
Yeah, this sort of shit is why I always carve out an extra lesson in my GCSE bio classes specifically to deal with the antivax conspiracy theory bollocks after we’d looked more generally at how vaccines work.
We go into detail on the Wakefield hoax and by the end of it the kids tend to be somewhere between amazed and disgusted. Had a couple of fun phone calls from parents over the years for it because kids had gone home and told off their parents.