Kathianne
05-02-2008, 11:24 PM
Having just ended a conversation with my 24 year old son on the role of autism in society. Lots of links at sites:
http://instapundit.com/archives2/018721.php
May 02, 2008
WHOOPING COUGH, MEASLES, POLIO: Diseases making a comeback because of anti-vaccine hysteria.
That's what happens when you neglect the advances that have produced fewer dead babies. As a commenter says: "Lucky, hell! Maybe it's the direct result of improvements in basic hygiene, waste collection and disposal, water treatment, vaccinations, medical improvements and, yes, much better environmental living conditions." All the stuff that people, and politicians, take for granted.
UPDATE: Reader Kevin Menard emails:
Those anti-vaccine folks need to talk to some one who has been a medical missionary. There are still place sin the world where all these diseases still kill people or cripple them for life. Any tendency you have to buy the crap goes right out the window with the horror stories of what measles, chicken pox, polio etc do to people.
Of course, that might mean they might have to talk to a Christian or a Mormon as most missionaries I know are led to it by faith...
Indeed.
posted at 09:38 PM by Glenn Reynolds
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http://instapundit.com/archives2/018721.php
May 02, 2008
WHOOPING COUGH, MEASLES, POLIO: Diseases making a comeback because of anti-vaccine hysteria.
That's what happens when you neglect the advances that have produced fewer dead babies. As a commenter says: "Lucky, hell! Maybe it's the direct result of improvements in basic hygiene, waste collection and disposal, water treatment, vaccinations, medical improvements and, yes, much better environmental living conditions." All the stuff that people, and politicians, take for granted.
UPDATE: Reader Kevin Menard emails:
Those anti-vaccine folks need to talk to some one who has been a medical missionary. There are still place sin the world where all these diseases still kill people or cripple them for life. Any tendency you have to buy the crap goes right out the window with the horror stories of what measles, chicken pox, polio etc do to people.
Of course, that might mean they might have to talk to a Christian or a Mormon as most missionaries I know are led to it by faith...
Indeed.
posted at 09:38 PM by Glenn Reynolds
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