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Do the research

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To be fair, food is a significant contributor to the existence of adults. And we all know those are problems.
- 100% of pedophiles are adults if this didn’t convince you enough.
  
  On one hand, food gave us Hitler. On the other, that dude actually killed Hitler. So...
  
  Found one of the kingpins:
  https://www.feedingamerica.org/
  
  Unfortunately, this is simply not true. There are some sick teenagers out there...

If you want to be really pissed, read up on ~~doctor~~ disgraced former doctor, lifelong charlatan and grifter Andrew Wakefield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
He abused autistic kids in a medical experiment that was meant to convince both the public and the scientific community that a specific combined vaccine (measles-mumps-rubella, a.k.a MMR) could trigger some kind of bowel disease that causes autism, all so he could peddle his own alternative that is three separate shots.
- And here's the kicker: he did that because he was financially invested in the company producing the older, separate vaccines.

You know what every living autistic kid have in common? They all eat!
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- I would even be bold enough to say that Autistic adults eat.
  
  Yeah, but people are more afraid of autistic children.

WARNING 100% OF CHILDREN EXPOSED TO DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE DIE!
- 100% of children who are given food die, too. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
  
  Food is contaminated with dihydrogen monoxide! The contamination is widespread from every source. It even affects vegans
  
  Not 100%. Most children stop being children before they die.
- Actually, they die while not being children anymore
  Checkmate atheists

Sounds like the type of person who won't give their kids ~~hydrogen~~ dihydrogen monoxide either because it can cause even metals to oxidate
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_parody
- hydrogen monoxide
  Dihydrogen monoxide
  One of these things is bleach.
  
  Do you mean Hydrogen Peroxide (H₂O₂)? I don’t think hydrogen monoxide can stably exist
  
  Bleach is Sodium Hypochloride. NaClO not HO
  
  Thanks! I hope I haven't killed someone (or cured them of something), before I corrected it!
  
  Beach is actually a great cure for Autism. Just murder those who look different.
- Dihydrogen monoxide has a higher PH than Hydrochloric acid.
  
  It has the highest PH of any acid you may actually encounter in a bottle.
- Hydroxic acid is a better name.

I feel like it's probably worse than this. It should start with "I read about this thing called 'choking to death'".
Or better yet, take out "choking to death" (which can happen) and insert some made-up bullshit like "choking so hard your eyeballs pop out".
- But they are not afraid of children dying, that's totally fine. They're afraid their kids might become "weird". Because that is how they see autism, as being weird.
  And as everybody knows weird is literally worse than death.
  
  I actually bothers me that parents hate there kids that much.
  Can you just be happy with who they are?
  
  "You know, darling, it's so much more important to look good than to be weird."
  
  Always conform, self must be denied in favor of the manufactured self
  
  One thing that I think causes a big divide in perceptions of autism is that most people perceive it almost exclusively from one side of the spectrum or the other.
  Around 1 in 30 kids will have a little more difficulty adapting to society... It's good to recognize their needs and support their growth.
  No, wanting to prevent/treat/manage a profound and debilitating disease isn't genocide.

Even then, starving your own children isn't going to cause their classmates and teachers and those people's families to also go hungry. OP's comparison is extremely forgiving to those dipshits.

"Do your research" is a dogwhistle and of course what it really means is "Google what you want to be true and read all the shit from morons like you who agree with you."
- Facebook intensifies

What annoys me is that "doing your own research" actually makes sense in a lot of contexts. Our modern politics driven news is 90% bullshit and you're better off fact checking everything they say by looking at reliable sources and tracing the origin of dubious claims. But these people have ruined that by acting like "do your own research" means "blindly trust some guy with a podcast who tells you what you want to hear."
- I hate when people use the word "research" because most people think it's reading a Facebook page.
  Real research requires nyears of studying to actually understand the subject before advancing the field. It requires sometimes year or decades of meticulously measuring and registering data, all while ensuring bias stays out of the data.
  To 99% of people it's spending 5 minutes to find the right Facebook page that will confirm their preconceptions..its gross
- When someone says that they usually want you to do their research, i.e. Find arguments supporting their claim because they're too stupid or lazy to communicate them. They don't actually want you to do the objective scientific research,they don't even want you to do a "Facebook research" on groups that don't align with their views.

因噎廢食 (īnyēfèishí)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9B%A0%E5%99%8E%E5%BB%A2%E9%A3%9F
This is a Chinese proverb meaning "to avoid something essential because of a slight risk of making a mistake." Literally it means "to not eat due to the risk of choking on food."
- To quote from Wiktionary:
  夫有以饐死者，欲禁天下之食，悖；有以乘舟死者，欲禁天下之船，悖；有以用兵喪其國者，欲偃天下之兵，悖。
  It is nonsense to forbid the world’s people to eat just because one person has choked to death when eating; it is nonsense to put the world's boats in disuse just because someone has drowned while sailing; it is also nonsense to eliminate the world's military forces just because one sovereign has lost his state due to his military action

I would love it if antivaxxers stopped eating.
- They don't stop eating. They will stop their kids from eating because they have been already vaccinated, so they can't live without eating, but their children can
- I feel bad for the kids of parents who are forcing the crazy diets

Outstanding. This is what good satire looks like.

If you choose to give your kids deadly food, that's your problem
Also, we're nominating a Director of HHS and a Surgeon General who will be adding corn, wheat, and rice to the Controlled Substances List.
- I think that this is the thing that's starting to really get me about this crowd. The pure unashamed hypocrisy and contradictions, accompanied by zero self reflection or awareness.
  "I love freedom of speech and expression! Now shut up and get out of my sight, gay people." "I care so much about the kids, so I'm supporting politicians that want to marry and fuck them." "I can't stand these feminazis acting like all men are ok with rape, now excuse me while I listen to the latest sermon from Andrew Tate." "I'm sick of DEI ruining my precious meritocracy. That's why I'm voting for an ex reality TV star to be my president and why I'll defend him putting a news reader in charge of the military."
  I feel like I could actually go on and on and on with more examples of this if I really tried. And I know that we're supposed to be kinder to these people or some shit, so that they don't crap in their nappies and their temper tantrums and vote for even bigger pieces of shit next time. But at this point, tell me, how does one view these people as anything other than cruel, profoundly fucking stupid hypocrites?
  
  It is just double speak
- And she's not even a doctor.

I mean, this level of Darwinism would be fine. What grates me is not recognizing the effect it has on others.
Still seeking an analogy where not eating food somehow puts a neighbor or classmate at risk of starvation.
- I stopped at a stop sign and somone almost rear-ended me. Had I driven through, I would have been safe. There is no reason to stop at stop signs. Other people can stop if they choose to, but the government can't force me to risk a rear-ending in order to protect someone else. Jesus wouldn't let me get T-boned in an intersection, I'm covered in his blood.
  
  I thought you were dead serious for a bit
- I feel like it's very perpetrated by Americans, and Americans are very ~~self-centered~~ individualistic
- Herd immunity is pretty important.
  The first of the crazy parents who went anti-vax benefitted greatly from Herd immunity. Now enough of them are not vaccinating that the herd immunity is basically non-existent. So we get things like measles outbreaks.
  There are people who are medically incapable of getting vaccinated, like those with compromised immune systems (some might be in treatment for cancer)... And their best defense is if all of us, who can be immunized, are immunized.
  Cancer treatments are not the only immunocompromising thing that can happen and not all immunocompromised people have cancer specifically.... For the record.
  Anyone who is anti-vax should be aware that they are actively and intentionally putting other people at risk and that should be strongly and thoroughly documented; so when they bring in a cold/flu/COVID/measles/whatever preventable disease to the school and someone else's kid dies as a result the grieving family has the ability to sue them into poverty.
  They deserve worse, but legally, I can't condone that.... But if someone wanted to take a page from a particular person named Luigi, I would be hard pressed to find a good reason to pursue any charges against them.
- Because food is dangerous, we've taken steps to ban supermarkets which distribute food.
  Only a select few strictly regulated supermarkets will be allowed to distribute food.
  We know some communities may struggle with reduced or no access to food because of this decision. However we deem this imperative in order to have a strong and healthy country.

Do the kids get a vote?

I was talking to a new friend who is a nurse yesterday, and she told me she worked in peds a bit last year during a measles outbreak in my city, during which one child died. She said she has never seen sicker children in her life, they were all unvaccinated, and that they all went home having lost so much ground. She says half the parents were just victims of disinformation but that many of them were super obnoxious.
- Interestingly, I have some nurses in the family and the rate at which people who are educated in healthcare, are anti-vax, is too damned high.
  Which isn't to imply its a lot of people, but any nonzero amount of people, working in healthcare, who buy into anti-vax propaganda, is too many. You've been formally taught about this stuff. Yet, you're anti-vax because some person on Facebook/Twitter/whatever, fed you some bullshit about the "dangers"?? Wow. What the actual fuck.
  
  My sister left a really great hospital job (radiology tech) due to the vaccine mandates. Some people are so smart and yet so dumb.
- Now there is serious evidence that the covid19 virus came from a lab originaly. We are in ww3. People should vaccinate their children from measles. This is the fog of war. The state is not your friend. The cheeze burger clown and ol sleepy Joe were terrible leaders. If you are sick of everything just know this is just the beginning. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf You will in your lifetime see the American imperialist empire drop nukes on civilian population.
  
  This isn't a discussion about where the virus comes from, and debating its source is entirely different than debating the science of effective treatment and vaccines. Promoting unproven horse ointments while speaking lies about proven treatments kills people.
  
  Not to derail the topic into the lab leak thing. It just annoys me that this is so commonly taken as gospel when the vast majority of disease scientists disagree. I'll just refer you to: https://youtu.be/EuwpDY5uFNQ

True, I usually refer to something similar: Do you know how many people die in bed every year? Perhaps we should ban beds.

I got 3 vaccinations today for a trip to Asia for Hep A, Typhoid and Tetanus. Two jabs in one arm and one in the other. Because while getting vaccinated isn't pleasant (sore arms and mild flu like symptoms) I would rather that than to the horrible, potentially life threatening illnesses they prevent.
- All those illnesses are nowhere near life threatening these days. Sure, in the past when you got Tetanus, you got it from some rusty nail possibly covered by fiecies of some farm animal, then it was most likely not cleaned, not even by alcohol... Today you probably get it properly cleaned and even disinfected practically immediately.
  While I also had Tetanus and other shots, I really dont consider them all that necessary these days as it was in the past. What Im however very weary is various aluminium and similar metals, especially in children vaccines. We have only studies of aluminium toxicity on rats, but those got it orally - which is a huge difference. We have no long term studies of aluminium oxides toxicity when directly injected, especially in to children...
  On day 1 of life, infants receive 250 µg of aluminum from the hepatitis B vaccine, equating to _{73 µg/kg for a 3.4 kg newborn—17 times higher than the weight-adjusted PDL (}4.3 µg/kg/day). Cumulative exposure from the CDC schedule (birth to 2 years) ranges from 4.225 to 4.925 mg, exceeding the PDL when adjusted for body weight, especially in the first 6 months (e.g., 1.475 mg by 2 months). Infants receive ~4.4 mg of aluminum from vaccines in the first 6 months, compared to 7 mg (breast milk), 38 mg (formula), or 117 mg (soy formula) from diet, but injectable aluminum is more bioavailable and biopersistent.
  And thats a huge red flag for me. Especially, if the mother is not infected by hep. B before birth, how would a child even get such a disease, which transfers by blood and body fluids, yet we vaccinate them with it at first days of life ?
  
  You know what the first thing is a medic asks you when you come in with an open wound? He asks you when you had your last tetanus shot. If you even blink before answering that question, you have that vaccine needle in you faster than you can say "autism".
  Tetanus is deadly as hell, and even if not deadly can cause massive tissue damage. Disinfecting the wound won't help you when the wound is deep, you can't clean that shit more than removing debris (btw, disinfection of open wounds isn't done in many cases, because the disinfectant damages the healthy cells that are busy healing the wound, causing longer healing times and bigger scars)
  Speaking of aluminium: Do you know how little the amounts you are speaking of are? A µg is a 1/1000th part of a mg. We are not talking about fucking Sarin here, it's aluminium which the human race gets exposed to in shittons. The first thing Aluminium as soon as it gets a chance is forming an oxide layer, making it about as reactive as my dick to a picture of Margret Thatcher naked on a cold day. The probability of aluminium in vaccines causing health effects, when taking the dosage in consideration, is negligible.
  I would not consider you an expert in the field of infectious diseases, please inform yourself the next time before you speak up on this particular topic.
  
  All 3 of the diseases i was vaccinated for regularly kill people and can cause severe harm even if someone survives. As I am not an idiot I would prefer to avoid that if at all possible. I opted not to get Hep B, Rabies, Dengue fever vaccinations based on a risk profile and where I was traveling but I could and would have gotten shots for those too if the risk profile were higher.
  I also vaccinate my kids for the same reasons.
  
  You are doing your own form of parody to match the original posted image yeah??? Right????

to be fair if foods are banned, then we will have zero food related choking incidents
- Not true, look at for example young children. They stuff things in their mouth that aren't food all the time.
  
  well that won't be a food related choking incident though

People would rather there kids die of Measles than have Autism
Obviously vaccines/environmental factors/food coloring doesn't cause Autism but if we play along with the RFK Jr. narrative that's basically what they are saying. Also the RFK Jr. research is specifically funding people can find a link. They will find a link because of conformation bias.

Some of those foods include peanuts which are fine for most people but are deadly for others.
Also, some American companies have created some lab grown food that seems revolutionary, but still lacks long term health testing.

“Better dead than fed” is how a lot of bigots see outgroups tbf

The problem is that big pharma lobbying and deregulation keeps giving these people ammunition to work with. So we have the FDA approving drugs they know don’t work, and the CDC allowing the ceo of Delta to decide Covid isolation guidelines. There’s too much corruption, and too much money involved, with diminishing oversight and accountability.
If scientific institutions want to be trusted, they need to behave in a trustworthy manner, and enforce accountability.
- Bold of you to assume that antivaxxers pay any attention to real life pharmaceutical corruption.
  
  Disinformation sources tend to grip onto a grain of truth to launder their bullshit. That’s what makes it effective.

Nowadays it'd be "If it prevents starvation, how come you have to keep doing it?!"

…the government doesn’t have any right to tell me that I have to feed my kids
Would work better.

I thought about sending this to some people, or using the analogy the next time we talk about it. But I think they will spin the metaphor further with comparing it to certain foods and just fewer different foods at smaller portions and differently presented. Like, don't give a baby apple pieces or hazelnuts during BLW type of thing.
Just to be clear, I am probably in the top 1 percentile of vaccine enthusiasts, having jumped through insane hoops for Covid vaccination and getting everything just in case. I've met 5 anti vaxxers in my life, three of them on the softer side. These softies are the ones I could imagine would argue about this food comparison in their favor.

dont speak when you are eating and you will not choke.

We live in a free society and this is one of the costs of freedom. I may not agree with their choices but I respect their ability to make it.
- I'd agree with you if it weren't for herd immunity and immuno compromised people. It's like allowing people to drive cars with old, dry, tnt bombs if they feel like it, they're not the only ones who will get hurt for doing something stupid.
- Even if their kids die as a result?
  
  Absolutely
  
  It's just Darwinism at it's finest. As a species, the increase in brain matter/intelligence led to the survival of Homo Sapiens. Homo Sapiens with higher intelligence can pass those traits to their offspring, and are more likely to be able to rear their offspring to the point of adulthood. Homo Sapiens with lower intelligence are less likely to successfully breed and rear children to adulthood. Science doesn't doesn't give a fuck about the innocence of the offspring.

This is dumb and only further alienates two groups who don't get along.
- Trying to find common ground between the rational and the batshit insane, is a futile endeavor.
- You say that, but I found this to be the perfect analogy to show to my wife to help her understand my take on the absurdity of her mother’s objection to me getting our children vaccinated.
  Worked like a treat.
- You mean the one group who understands science and the other group that refuses to understand science and insists they know better than the experts and the studies that have been done?
  I don't think there's any common ground for those 2 groups.

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