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Paul Alexander, the polio survivor who spent over 70 years in an Iron Lung, has died at 78 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] YurkshireLad 55 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Send this story to every anti vaxxer and ask if this is what they want their kids to suffer this.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I have a wall right here if I need to bang my head against something. I don't know, maybe somebody else reading has the gift of convincing irrational people of things, but I do not.

I brought it up partly just to vent, and partly for any fence sitters that might be lurking and hadn't made the connection.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever tried screaming at clouds, much safer and sometimes the clouds will flip you off in return.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What if it's completely clear?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Well you're fucked then I guess.

[–] YurkshireLad 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I probably didn't make it obvious, but I was talking in the general sense of "everyone should do this". My bad...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Ah, okay. I'm still not sure if that would accomplish anything, though. They need deprogramming or something, not more yelling at.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They’ve already decided they don’t care for the suffering of other people’s children, the step to not caring about their own isn’t a far one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Most people are wired to care about people that are familiar to them, instinctively, so I actually think it is a big step. Antivaxxers, as far as I can tell, genuinely believe the conspiracy theories and snake oil salesmen.