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A recent article in the Daily Record posts some alarming figures:

In August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported measles cases had spiked; 131 cases were reported nationwide for the first seven months of the year, compared with an average of 63 cases per year since 2000.

Of the infected, 91 percent were unvaccinated, most because of “philosophical or religious beliefs,” the CDC report said.

Homeschooled children accounted for 25 out of 30 cases in an outbreak of measles in suburban Chicago in May, according to the CDC. In Grant County, Washington, public health officials tied 11 of 19 measles cases to unvaccinated home-schooled children.

It will be interesting to see how anti-vaccinationists twist this story to prove their point. My bet is they’ll focus on the 9% of vaccinated children that also contracted measles as proof that vaccines are ineffective. 

Lance Rodewald, director of the CDC’s Immunization Division, states: 

“Somebody who has taken an exemption from school laws, like a philosophical or religious exemption, is 35 times more likely to get measles … and 22 times more likely to get whooping cough.”

But, of course, he is part of the vast conspiracy to austism-ize our nations children. And surely he is in the (seemingly infinite) pocket of “big pharma”. 

If it wasn’t for the fact that the innocent will have to suffer along with the guilty, I wouldn’t mind. Let the parents who choose to neglect their children, and fail to get them immunized, contract the disease. Not the children, who’s only crime is being born to gullible, intellectually lazy parents. 

The only bit of solace coming out of the news in recent weeks has been a push by the AAP (American Association of Pediatrics) to have pediatritions ask parents to sign a release when they refuse to vaccinate their children. Autism quackery websites have, as one would expect, been resoundingly critical of the form, amidst fears of it causing them to lose their children for neglect. While I can find no mention anywhere of this having ever happened, I see no issue with it. 

If you, as a parent, are unable to have even the most basic knowledge of safety regarding your children, or if having that knowledge, you choose not to act for them, you are unfit to be a parent.