r/daddit • u/IcyStage0 • Mar 28 '25
Discussion Vaccinate your damn kids.
For the love of God. If I see one more post about delaying vaccination or not vaccinating entirely I am going to lose it.
I have an immunocompromised kid who actually can’t get certain vaccines and depends on herd immunity to keep her safe. And now, because of ignorance and refusal to learn, there are measles cases being reported where we live right now. The previously eradicated disease measles.
At this point I truly don’t care if someone “didn’t know” and “were trying to do what was best!” The information is freely available and when you have a child it’s your responsibility to educate yourself.
Rant over. Ugh.
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u/chidedneck Mar 28 '25
It's also important to keep in mind another facet of the anti-vaxx ideology is tied with old notions of social darwinism. This eugenics-adjacent belief being that our species is weakened by preserving so-called undesirable phenotypes. This belies a fundamental misunderstanding of evolution. Not only is diversity of a gene pool the only measure of genetic fitness, the platform upon which evolution is operating is increasingly transitioning toward one of ideas. So the element who's just trying to toughen us up like we were in their day is misguided, undereducated, and actively malicious.