as small as a world and as large as alone, you are sickly misinformed about vaccines and im...

8:42am November 15, 2013

Anonymous asked: you are sickly misinformed about vaccines and im sorry. but why dont you get your vaccines since you care so much about them and let people who are against them not get them? since you are vaccinated you should have nothing to worry about right?

professorfangirl:

wintergrey:

Actually, anon, I’m completely well-informed regarding vaccines—with a university level background in biology, including courses on diseases in human and animal populations. People who do not vaccinate for superstitious reasons are actively harming other people around them. Their choice to believe fear-mongering propaganda instead of years of research is, of course, their choice. It also makes them an active danger to the population of this planet.

I’m not going to give you a science lesson here because the facts are all out there. They were in the article I posted. They’re on just about every major news site if you care to look for them. All you have to do is Google and it’s there in layperson’s terms. But you’d have to want to be informed, instead of feeling the artificial rush of believing you’re part of a special group that knows a special secret that everyone else is too dumb to realize, for that to work.

Enjoy your deliberate ignorance and your fuzzy feelings of superiority and your false sense of control over a world that’s terrifyingly random—that’s all part of a very specific mechanic of human psychology, if you’d like to look that up as well. Unfortunately, we haven’t got a vaccine for that. Yet.

People who do not vaccinate are actively harming the people around them.