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    Silver lining: the US is running a natural experiment to disprove once and for all the theory that there is a link between autism and vaccination.

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    From that article on the granola being tainted:

    Are the “Make America Healthy Again” folks still happy with their choices?

    They might be just a bit happier now that they’ve put people at risk. Thanks assholes!

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    Vaccination down in the face of an epidemic, and new parents are refusing vitamin K shots in babies so brain bleeding and permanent brain damage.

    USA is fucked. You spend so much time and effort making abortion illegal but then you kill the kids later, either by disease or gunshot.

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    The people of the United States can choose to refresh their memory of the scourges eliminated by vaccination through education and healthcare, or through the death and suffering of those that they love.

    Eventually, the choice will be made for them.

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    The future monument to all the dead vaccine deniers should be “We Sure Showed Them!”. I pity the children who are forced into this danger by stupid parents. Maybe it’s Darwinism, I don’t know.

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    I hate the idea of dead kids, dying from preventable diseases that their parents elected not to prevent.

    I hate those parents more. May their children dead from preventable diseases inflict the worst kind of mental torment imaginable for them.

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      Darwin awards are for people that remove themselves from the gene pool before they procreate. The parents already reproduced and the kids that die have no control over the matter so Darwin awards don’t apply in either case.

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        I mean, technically the parents are removing themselves from the gene pool. I haven’t heard the stipulation that it’s “before procreating”. I think getting your kids killed by an easily preventable disease is macabre, but technically counts.

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          You’re right that it doesn’t have to happen before they have reproduced but it must be a self inflicted injury that prevents future reproduction.

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            Right. Man, this thread just reminded me of the old days (for me) hanging around on the Darwin Awards forums when they first opened up a decade or two back.

            There have been endless arguments about what should qualify or exclude someone from consideration for an award. The existence of existing children doesn’t exclude one from getting an award because death by stupidity still prevents you from having any more children. But getting your own kids killed due to your own stupidity does though. The children didn’t cause their own deaths (or sterilization), and that is one major key to winning an award, self selection.

            If anyone cares, there are actual rules at the forum that have been getting hashed out since this all started in usenet groups in the mid eighties.

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              The general rule for a DA is that you have to cause your own death or sterilization in a spectacularly stupid and hilarious fashion. Getting kids killed, while spectacularly stupid, is never hilarious and still leaves the idiot parents free to continue breeding.

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      Also the poor kids that are medically unable to receive certain vaccines, and depend on herd immunity. 😞