Did You Get Your Mumps Vaccine?
Alan | 27 August, 2008 | 20:22Well apparently, it won’t help much.
I have a tiny bit more contempt for anti-vax retards than creationist retards. I could deal with explaining natural selection and that the world is really 4.55 billion years old to my kid, but explaining that they are going to die of something as stupid as mumps or measles is insane.
Its the 21st century, we should be worrying about our kids getting fat and whether they are going to college, not kindergarden.
BC has been given a one-two punch of religious insanity and hippie inanity and now has almost 200 cases of mumps. yeah mumps. Thanks to Science I’d never heard of it as a kid (I was asthmatic and loaded full of vaccines, and I’m not autistic, suck it Jenny mcCartney. I also went to a small school so people didn’t get sick much) , but your parents probably had friends get it. Ask them, they will probably tell you that mumps will do all kinds of wonderful things to you. It looks like this next generation will get the chance I missed out on. lovely.
Anyone know who this deadly dumb nameless christian sect is? It’d be annother wonderful example of how belief isn’t just dumb, its harmful.
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Edited August 30/’08
Original post was written in a bit of a rage. cleaned up and errors corrected.
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I got mumps when I was a kid…even though I had the vaccine for it. It was painful, but medicine came to the rescue!
While I’m rather in agreement with your sentiments regarding those who choose not to vaccinate…
Your reference to mumps and death are very exaggerated and rather sensationalistic. Death from mumps is extremely rare so I’m sure your parents didn’t have friends die of it. Your parent’s friends may have been dying from measles (again, rare in industrialized Canada) but by 1964 the vaccine was readily available (mumps, 1967 and the combined MMR vaccine 1972). The worst that can happen with mumps is if an older male is infected; it can possibly lead to sterility. I had mumps when I was little which proves that either I am very old (which I’m not) or that you are very young because you’d never heard of it. Unfortunately, I gave it to my Dad which was quite the thing to see. I have a sister so it couldn’t have been that bad. ;o)
Oh, and the news article at the science blog link you offer has a rather inane article being quoted. Firstly, I could care less if some loonie religious idiots choose to spread the mumps amongst themselves (hey, we can only hope they sterilize themselves!) But to say, “there is some evidence that it is moving out of the faith-based communities and into the broader communities” seems nonsensical given that immunization amongst babies and school children is almost 100%. Unless you aren’t immunizing your kids, who’s getting the mumps outside the religious groups who don’t immunize? And if it’s true, then immunization education needs to be reviewed if they’re missing people who have no objections to it.
There is a large campaign to move against vaccinations, which is the real issue. They claim a poorly (or un)supported link between vaccines and autism.
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There, fixed a few of the dumber things I said, but the point still stands, mumps will fuck you up and we shouldn’t get it. There are extremely stupid people who are actively engaged in turning the clocks back.
I’m not sure how they think its spreading, but I”m guessing its got something to do with herd immunity (vaccines only work if almost everyone has them) or its moving through the babies who haven’t been vaccinated yet. I’ll look it up later, its saturday night.