Congratulations Anti-vaxers. Measles spreading in California

[Sava]

seems like the beginning of an awkward porno

[I AM MOBIUS]

"That's what he said!"

[Sava]

I posted this once before. Either nobody got it, nobody saw it, or no one thought it was funny.

That's what

[rah]

Another day reading posts here and feeling older.
Yes, when we were younger we were sent to a Chickenpox party and it worked.


But reading about those groups in TEXAS is kind of encouraging.
Conservative groups supporting choice in terms of their children.
Maybe they'll see the connection and thereafter the light.

[N35t0r]

[Dr Strangelove]

I wonder if they felt any guilt at all.

No, my Dad grew up during the Great Depression.

[Dinner]

Chickpea!?

Give the man who is always wrong and can't spell a smart phone with autocorrect - even more hilarity than usual ensues!

Dude, maybe the touchscreen is too small? They're getting bigger at such a rate that it won't be long before a 48" model comes out...

You really have been degenerating in your posting style recently. Obviously, the phone changed chickenpox to chickpea via the autocorrect without me noticing. Seriously, there is something wrong with you trying to always think the worst and jump on everything. Even worse, you are just plan factually wrong about so many things these days, like being too lazy to read a link, but still running your mouth about what you imagine it said instead of what it actually said.

[Hauldren Collider]

Has he ever been anything other than a witless insult machine gone horribly wrong?

[Sava]

Mobius

for a long time, I saw him as an adversary... butting heads at almost every turn

[Berzerker]

The troll grew boring after you essentially said the polio and smallpox vaccines were bad for humanity.

I dont know if they are or not, I said vaccines will produce a larger population of people with vulnerability to bugs that might "evolve" faster than our medicine

As I said, the new polio-like enterovirus didn't evolve from the polio virus, it evolved from a completely different enterovirus. The polio vaccine only affects our immunity against the polio virus, not against other enteroviruse. Therefore the polio vaccine had nothing to do with the evolution of this new virus. Vaccines don't spread organisms around, vectors do that.

If you inject a bug into people you are spreading organisms around

You mean like white people being less vulnerable to smallpox than native americans? White people aren't actually immune to smallpox, genetics just plays a role in determining how vulnerable you are to various diseases and native americans didn't have smallpox plagues in their evolutionary history.

Some people are immune, others have varying levels of immunity, and some have little or no protection. As you explain, many, many native americans didn't have that protection - probably because smallpox was an old world disease related to the domestication of animals after they migrated away. Their "herd immunity" was extremely low, so what happens after 10,000 years of vaccinations? A much larger population of vulnerable people.

[Sava]

[Elok]

Some people are immune, others have varying levels of immunity, and some have little or no protection. As you explain, many, many native americans didn't have that protection - probably because smallpox was an old world disease related to the domestication of animals after they migrated away. Their "herd immunity" was extremely low, so what happens after 10,000 years of vaccinations? A much larger population of vulnerable people.

Er, did you miss the part where we vaccinated the damn smallpox virus into extinction? As far as anyone can tell, it no longer exists in the wild. There are two samples left in Georgia and Moscow, which we only keep around in case we missed some. Give us ten thousand years more vaccination, and we'll happily be vulnerable to all sorts of long-dead viruses. Much like we've lost our skills with atlatls and cuneiform.

(I assume this point was so obvious because you were feeling desperate to yank more chains; if so, you got me with your mad acting-like-a-dumbass skills)

[FlameFlash]

I love chickpeas

Give me hummas!

[Dinner]

I love chickpeas

Me too. They are a staple of middle eastern and South Asian cuisine.

[Dr Strangelove]

If you inject a bug into people you are spreading organisms around

The polio vaccines we use currently aren't "live", they can't replicate, all they can do is prime the recipient's immune system to make antibodies against the real thing. The old Salk vaccine was live.