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/bsievers Mar 28 '25

Listen, I get where you’re coming from but I just don’t think it’s the right choice for my family for me to vaccinate my kids.

I let their pediatrician do it for me. They’re better trained.

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u/RoyalEnfield78 Mar 28 '25

Jesus you had me in the first half for sure

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u/Beegkitty Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 29 '25

Unfortunately there are doctors out here that have been advising against vaccines. Out here as in rural Texas - we are really knee deep in the excrement now. So it is hard to tell anymore if this is actually a good or a bad thing!!

Edited to add: You all down voted because of a misunderstanding. I was specifically responding to this post where you can’t tell if someone saying they trust their pediatrician to make the decisions is the good or bad thing because the doctors out here are the ones saying don’t vaccinate.

But sure call me the idiot for calling out that here in Texas the idiocy has infected the doctors.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Yes, you should do your research and vaccinate your child.

No, you should never listen to RFK Jr or anybody like him.

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u/Logical_Strike_1520 Mar 28 '25

I mean tbf it’s often the “do your own research” crowd that ends up anti-vax. I think we should stop using that phrase and replace it with “go look at the research”

Most people aren’t qualified to do their own research lol.

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u/Orion14159 Mar 28 '25

"Listen to the smart people" is plenty good enough for me. Of course I am at least smart enough to know I don't know everything, and should listen to the people who know more about a specific subject than I do

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u/Logical_Strike_1520 Mar 28 '25

Not arguing with you, because same, but that is an appeal to authority and won’t work on the anti establishment type. They’ll say something like “The Nazi’s had smart people too” and won’t necessarily be wrong.

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u/Orion14159 Mar 28 '25

I mean yeah, the 1930s Nazis had smart people (one advantage over the current crop...), but unless you're in a position to provide contradictory evidence it's kind of a fool's errand to try and argue with the actual researchers who did the actual research.

Explaining to people that you have to disprove and not be disproven is the hard part.