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Sometimes I wish we could just quarantine people.
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There is a very special place in hell reserved for the mass murderer named Andrew Wakefield. He has made a cottage industry out of vaccine denialism, and he profits from it daily.
I am usually a calm and rational person, but whenever we are in mixed company and someone starts in on vaccines, my wife has to grab my arm to remind me to breathe and not rip them to shreds verbally. For some reason this particular thing drives me absolutely crazy, and the smugness of some of the people (not all) who go around spouting this poison makes me say things I know I shouldn’t say.
One of the main reasons I do not do social media.
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Grew up in the late 40/50s and one of the first memories I have is seeing Bright Orange or Red signs stapled to front doors by the health department.
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I’ve got to the point I just don’t care, I tell it as I see it and F them if they are offended because I speak the truth to such azzes.
Many try to counter that it is their right, freedom, to choose. I say yea but what about my right to live my life without the consequences of their irresponsibility. I especially jump on the right to choose idiots who I know are anti-abortion. My language quickly goes into the toilet with them.
“…It was later revealed that Wakefield had been paid to falsify the evidence in that paper by lawyers suing the vaccine manufacturers, and that he was developing a competing vaccine himself…”
Had not heard this part. Hope these lawyers get disbarred.
Oh, do I understand. And the lawyers who were complicit in this must be disbarred if they haven’t been already.
No doubt you’ve heard:
“Oh, I never get ‘shots’ and I’ve never been sick a day”. Horse shit.
Amazing how we lose our ability to suffer fools as we age.
I have managed to avoid lacing into two nephews who are the very model for Dunning Kruger.
My understanding was that the law firm paid Wakefield to produce results in line with the argument they were pursing, and were shocked, shocked I tell you that any of the work he did might possibly have been falsified. Sure, he knew that more money would be coming his way if and only if he produced results that backed the plaintiffs’ case, but how could anyone possibly think that would lead him to do anything less that a completely honest job.
(This is one of the problems with the expert-witness biz in general. You have a variety of predilections and levels of competence among nominally-qualified ‘experts’, and people hiring them who have long memories and research staffs.)
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Know what you mean. My experience is mostly second hand with some direct experience when I was in insurance many yrs ago. There is at least one forensic medical pathologist who is notorious for taking big bucks in the defense of accused murderers. His job is to cast doubt on a coroner’s finding of homicide.
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