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It's all about solidarity vs selfishness, group behavior vs freeloading individuality. When you get a vaccine you have a small chance to be sick/to die. You take that risk knowing that the overall health of the population will improve. It's a group behaviour. When I bring my kids to the doctor for their shots, I know I have a very slight chance that I am sacrificing their lives so others can live. It's an important collective decision. Any person refusing collective vaccination should be put aside the group, and pay for 100% of medical costs if he gets sick.
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I'd also like to say we need to de-stigmatize autism. It is not a fate worse than death and I can assure you that without vaccines many people would not live long enough to even know if they had autism. In a lot of ways everyone is autistic and we need to make that part of our community feel they are loved an accepted not just the fault of a vaccine and not something to be pitied. Autism is still very much a mystery and while some may have attached it to Vaccines it really seems that that is correlation rather than true causation.
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Every time someone asks me about vaccines and anti-vaxxers, I tell them this joke:
A man was absolutely convinced that he is dead, despite that he's still walking and breathing. Exasperated, his family brought him to a scientist who explained in great lengths that there's an irrefutable evidence to determine whether someone's dead or alive.
The scientist took the man to the morgue to examine a dead man's corpse. He explained that since a dead man's heart was no longer beating, the corpse should not bleed when pricked with a needle. So, the scientist did just that and demonstrated that the corpse indeed did not bleed.
Then the scientist turned to the man, and told him to go ahead and prick his finger with a needle. The man did that, and started to bleed. Looking at his finger, he said, "hey, look at that! Dead men do bleed!"
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Ah, yes, as a gay man, I and all of my gay friends love nothing more than rubbing glitter over our bodies and prancing through town like a horde of Twilight vampires. /s (Amusing story, but unexpected sparkling body lotion would be unwelcome by many regardless of gender/sexuality, including us gay men.)
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A new study found that drinking sugary drinks daily can increase one’s risk of contracting a cardiovascular disease. 
I'm either nuts or we've known this for at least 50 years.
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