When people choose not to vaccinate their kids due to completely fraudulent and unsubstantiated claims of Autism risk it says to me that they'd prefer to risk death of their child(ren) than risk that their child end up like my son or my nephew (son is high-functioning, nephew has more severe ASD). And now these anti-vaxxers put at risk those who cannot receive vaccines due to allergy or other verified risk. Herd immunity for Pertussis has been destroyed in a community just hours from us. And Polio has made its return in some areas, too. Only those who never knew anyone disabled for life by Polio would choose to shun that vaccine.

People wearing tinfoil hats need to be sequestered on an island far away from the rest of us who choose to not be Science-deniers. Right now my asthmatic self is nervous about going out in public because our area's flu outbreak has been deemed at epidemic levels. Even with the flu shot, if I catch the flu it guarantees that I will require nebulizer breathing treatments and almost certain development of pneumonia.