The Stoopid, It Makes Me Giggle

[elfs]

So, today the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it would spend (puts pinkie to mouth) ten billion dollars to distribute vaccines around the world.

I wanted to see how the crazies would react. Oh, they didn't disappoint:

"SOMEONE SHOULD TELL BILL HE IS WASTING HIS CASH. The anti vaccine movement has gone VIRAL!"

Yeah, and when you get the virus, you'll probably regret it.

Makes sense. Bill Gates is an undiagnosed autistic.

So... what? You're claiming that because some loonies think vaccination causes autism, and Gates might be autistic, that this is some vast conspiracy on his part to spread the problem?

I've seen the "incredible impact" of vaccines on children too, it's called Autism.

See what I mean?

THEY PLEDGE 10 BILLION DOLLARS TOWARDS A VACCINE TO A FLU THAT HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE A LIE!!!!!!! SO WHERE IS THIS MONEY REALLY GOING?H1N1 WAS A LIE THERE NEVER WAS EPHEDEMIC .

Reading comprehension is just hard, you know?

Discusting!!! Why not the century of real food and holistic health!?

Uh, because it only goes so far, and what do you mean by "real food?"

human milk is the ONLY real source of immunization, not vaccination!!

Which explains why milkmaids didn't get smallpox. Oh, wait.

He is trying to make money as a killer since his net crap is over.

Bill, "a killer?" I've met Bill. If he's a killer than I'm a self-flagellating pope.

Man, the Stoopid, it's worth a grin, sometimes...

Comments

[gromm.livejournal.com]

I think we can thank the Internet for giving everyone a press.

Even people who really, really don't deserve them. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, there was much worse. "Why do we bother saving third word children? They're just going to grow up poor and miserable anyway and die in a civil war or join some muslim (sic) terrorist group." "Saving a bunch of Africans is such a waste of money." "8 million more apes. Just fucking great."

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Gee really? Gosh, I'm really new to this intertubes thing!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

Naaaah. You're just Canadian. You guys are nowhere near so boorish. That sort of crap is more common here down south of the border. ;)

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Next you're going to tell me I've never been on Usenet.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

Why would I do that?

Although I may accuse you of leaving Usenet after it got too rude. ^_^

[urox.livejournal.com]

I really hate the anti-vax movement. They make any investigation into sensible, slower vaccination look looney.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

While I'm not sure I'd do vaccinations (infrastructure for clean drinking water would be my preference) they loonies do get stuck on their own little point...

[amythis.livejournal.com]

Did milkmaids drink more human milk than average? (Sounds like some obscure porn.)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

No, they milked cows. Which is why they frequently caught cowpox, a close relative of smallpox that resulted in a very mild rash and no lifetime scarring. Edward Jenner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner) in 1796 deliberately infected several people with cowpox, then went on to show that none of them contracted smallpox later when a wave of it hit his village, and thus invented vaccination.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

A few years back, I was listening to some interview with one of these anti-vaccine-fundies. Seems her young child had been infected with the rubella or the mumps during a trip overseas, but hadn't come down with the disease. The kid spread it to others in daycare, with severe and near-fatal consequences.

Her kid was immediately put under quarantine.

Now, she and her husband were not under quarantine (since they had been vaccinated against the mumps & rubella as kids. But, since the kid was quarantined, she had to stay home with him.

During the interview, this nut-job woman was complaining about the quarantine. When her littany of complaints described the quarantine as "medieval," I screamed at the radio:
"Well of course it's medieval, you dip$h1t!!! What the h311 do you think people did about diseases before the last century?!?!?"