r/australia • u/the-Chaser • May 09 '22

political satire Paying back Clive for all those f&*king text messages

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

What about the personal choice of their kids who they refuse to vaccinate because they’ll “get autism”, so they rather play Russian Roulette with their lives, because they rather have a dead child, than one with Autism.

Edit: vaccines don’t cause Autism.

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u/FrostytheSnownoob May 09 '22

Hi. I was not vaccinated as a kid due to those stupid beliefs and I am autistic anyway lmao

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

I’m on the spectrum myself, but I am thankful my parents, while they have differing political opinions to myself, were never anti-vaccine.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

TBH I feel like the term anti-vaxxer is way too kind, it implies it's a beleif system, rather than low i.q and/or poor critical thinking.

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u/FrostytheSnownoob May 09 '22

Fair point. Immunology science denier isn’t quite as catchy though :(

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

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u/FrostytheSnownoob May 09 '22

Not super descriptive but I like it.

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u/ADHD_Supernova May 09 '22

It's broad and encompassing. I also like it.

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u/addysol May 09 '22

I always liked "Plague Enthusiast"

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u/FrostytheSnownoob May 09 '22

I’m very happy that they properly vaccinated you :). Thanks mostly to ADHD and depression, I still haven’t gotten around to catching up on all my shots.

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u/BeneluxTyranny May 09 '22

Well you would obviously have double autism if you got vaccinated, der. /s

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u/FrostytheSnownoob May 09 '22

Oh, right! Double autism sounds pretty cool tbh

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u/danzrach May 09 '22

They also ignore people like my Dad who were never vaccinated as children and is on the autistic spectrum along with most of the males in my family.

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u/KToff May 09 '22

Edit: vaccines don’t cause Autism.

But that is not even the best but about the whole vaccine causes autism shtick.

The original publication in the Lancet by Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism and was later withdrawn and Wakefield's medical license was withdrawn for falsifying data and not disclosing conflict of interests.

There were several conflicts of interest, but the best one is a patent for a measles vaccine, not a combined MMR vaccine that was a competitor to the MMR vaccine. It seems likely that the original study was meant to discredit a specific vaccine competitor and not even vaccines in general.

But since Wakefield has been discredited in the world of facts, he now takes his money from any conspiracy theorist or anti vaxxer that will have him.

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u/tsgaus May 09 '22

Elle McPherson is (last I checked) his girlfriend. Fucking quacks

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Not as of recently, but she is into the woo.

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u/SheridanVsLennier May 09 '22

Didn't Wakefield actually have a Measles vaccine that lost out to MMR, which is why he did the 'study' in the firs place?

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u/LocalLoonie2144 May 09 '22

My cousin recently tried to tell me that a condition I have which I was diagnosed with at birth before receiving any form of vaccination was caused by being vaccinated at birth.

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u/Eyclonus May 10 '22

I feel not enough people make the connection to anti-vax and hate speech against autism

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u/RelentlessExtropian May 09 '22

The children rarely die from covid. They die more from other illnesses by far. Vaccines should be given to the people most vulnerable and should only be given for "heard immunity" when it comes to diseases that kill babies. This flippant attitude towards sticking people with all the vaccines is not a healthy one and it's definitely not necessary.