Man Sees Picture Of Himself At Anti-Vaxx Vigil For The ‘Dead’, Makes Fun Of It On Twitter
Anti-vaxx vs. pro-vaccine clashes are definitely raging in the USA, especially after a recent California law being passed. Just this week, California’s governor signed a pro-vaccine bill that would focus on medical exemptions that were previously used by many anti-vaxx parents to avoid having their children vaccinated. During the hearings as well as after the bill was passed, anti-vaxx groups launched multiple protests to challenge the bill, including a candlelight vigil for children who were allegedly harmed or killed by vaccines that were administered against their parents’ wishes. One woman also, reportedly, thew a menstrual cup at the senators from a balcony while shouting, “That’s for the dead babies!” One of the senators, Steve Glazer, later tweeted out a photo of himself sitting at a doctor’s appointment with the caption: “A couple hours of sleep since our Senate adjournment around 3am and I’m at a doctors appointment to follow safety protocols from blood exposure. Still absorbing it all. But as my hat says Relax! Thankful that none of my Senate colleagues appear hurt and we finished our work.”
And while it seems that with the latest reports, the protest has reached the maximum level of crazy, one Twitter user pointed to some questionable antics during the candlelight vigil.
Recently, members of the anti-vaxx movement held a candle-lit vigil for ‘children that have died after being vaccinated’
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“It would seem that an antivaxx rally on 9/11 had a candlelight vigil for dead children…and my picture was included,” wrote Ethan J. Lindenberger, next to an image from the vigil with his face circled in red. Not only is Ethan alive and well (and not dead or injured like the anti-vaxx members claimed), he is also a prominent figure in the pro-vaccine movement.
However, upon closer inspection, one man noticed that it featured a photo of him
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After pointing out the weird placement of his photo in such an event, Ethan received attention on Twitter from both sides. Some were quick to joke about how nonsensical it all was, others criticized Ethan and some even tried to ‘prove’ that Lindenberger staged the photo, to which he simply replied that their ‘proof’ was a cropped shot. There were also people who pointed out that the vigil also featured stock images.
Ethan Lindenberger is not only healthy and very much alive, he’s also a pro-vaccine activist
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Lindenberger gained national attention in late 2018 after he asked for help on Reddit where he shared that his mother had strong anti-vaxx beliefs and that he wasn’t vaccinated. He wanted to exercise his right to be vaccinated after starting his own research on vaccines at the age of 13. Lindenberger expressed that his mother rejected vaccination because of unfounded fears about the adverse effects of vaccines. His story quickly garnered attention not only on social media but from politicians as well.
Someone pointed out that the vigil also has a stock image of a baby
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In response, people had varying reactions, from laughing at the incident to attacking Lindenberger
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Following Ethan’s story, he was invited to attend a US Senate hearing in March 2019 that focused on epidemics of diseases such as measles that could be easily prevented with vaccines but are making a return following the misleading information about vaccines being widely spread. “Approaching the issue with the concern of education and addressing misinformation properly can cause change as it did for me,” he said during the hearing.
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Lindenberger’s mother, of course, did not take her son’s approach kindly, expressing that his choice was “like him spitting on me, saying, ‘You don’t know anything, I don’t trust you with anything’”, however Ethan wanted to stress the sentiment that most of the anti-vaxxers, including his mother, often have good intentions. They’re just horribly misinformed.
Bored Panda has reached out to Ethan Lindenberger for additional comment and he has yet to reply.
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Share on FacebookMy grandmother was a staunch Southern Baptist Christian. By all appearances, she had the make up of an Anti-Vaxx person. The truth? I never missed getting vaccinated and still have my Vaxx card from the 80's. Why? Because she got to witness first hand the horrible effects of Polio and lost relatives to Chicken Pox. Ill never understand these people and fear for their children.
Because vaccines work and these diseases are gone people quickly forget the horror of preventable diseases.
Load More Replies...Hahaha the stupidity of the antivax movement aside, the responses were quite funny! X'D
One of my favorite things to say: Two things that never get old: dark humor and kids that aren't vaccinated. I'm happy to see California taking a stance on this nonsense. Maybe the rest of the country will join in. Who am I kidding?
Don't fight with the anti-vaxxers. Let's just bide our time and let nature take its course.
Sadly its not them that will feel the consequences, but their kids
Load More Replies...Go for it. I'm grateful my mother got me vaccinated for the new polio and the new rubella vaccines. (I had red measles, chicken pox and mumps as a kid). My kids got the new vaccines and their kids get the newest vaccines. That's what's called being healthy, a good citizen and detonating concern for the weak of our communities
The maddest thing about the anti-vaxers is that they were probably all vaccinated themselves and they've no more health problems than the general population (except for the mental health/child abusing problems they have I guess).
What's the worst that could happen if you get vaccinated? - You could die. What's the worst that could happen if you *don't* get vaccinated? - You could catch a preventable disease and die. The immune-compromised, un-vaxxable, and fear-mongering unvaxxed around you could catch a preventable disease and die.
I think I must have come across as an antivaxxer in my first post, but as an extreme proponent of vaccines this is important, so I'm going to try again. What most people don't realize is that there is a very large population of "vaccine-hesitant" parents who can be convinced how important vaccination is, but they're just not sure who to believe and so they hesitate and don't vaccinate and obviously that's very dangerous. So it's very important that we try to calmly explain the facts to these people. It's harmful to our cause to laugh at them and say that there are NEVER side effects to vaccines. It's EXTREMELY rare, but it does happen. (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm) To put their fears to rest, what we must make clear is just how rare this is versus the very real, extremely harmful risks of NOT vaccinating or even of just not vaccinating on schedule.
Parmeisan is correct. Though very very rare some people do have adverse reactions to vaccines. Denying this only plays into the anti-vaxxers hands. The pros for vaccinations outweigh the cons by an innumerable margin even with acknowledging that fact.
Load More Replies...Anti-vaxxers rather see their children dead or in a wheelchair with polio than taking the risk of vaccinating them and turning them into autists. /S Repeat: /S
It's a bizarre claim, especially as the "scientist" who claimed the autism link was found to have been paid off by parents to fake a positive link. What's more bizarre is that many of these people think they're being all anti-Big Pharma (which is perfectly fine to be, we should ALWAYS follow the money) but will believe in homeopathy and nutbag s**t like that, that is both useless and costly
Load More Replies...Now's the time for antivax supporters to go to China and prove their point
Ok, vaccines are necessary, but for people to comment that vaccine injury does not exist only shows that they have not done any research. There is no link to autism, at least not one strong enough to be viable. BUT, there ARE many many cases of vaccine injury. It is all about numbers, it may be only a percent of a percent, but when millions are dosed it WILL happen. Be smart, get vaccinated, but don't claim/pretend that vaccine injury is not a thing.
It is undeniable that there IS a small percentage of people died due to complications arise from vaccination... Nothing is totally fool-proof, there even people died due to allergy with anesthesia so are we gonna ban it all and have everyone bring operated with full conscious?
now he really has to try his best not to die or they'll say he died due to getting vaccinated!
it's quite possible to die after receiving vaccine but it is very rare and there are some contested vaccines like Gardasil (banned in Japan) that can result in death - again, VERY rare and more to do with the individual's biology. If you were to die by vaccine it's not so much the chemicals or whatever the claim is as it would be the lack of treatment of symptoms that are quite normal (fevers etc) and the incorrect administration of it - wrong dose, unclean syringe, lack of preparation etc
That would have been done on purpose. An upside-down flag means that things are "in distress" or aren't right. That's how they feel. Too bad.
Load More Replies...The comment "A vigil for a thing that doesn't exist" isn't helping anybody. The biggest source of unvaccinated children is in the vaccine-hesitant, not (as you might think) the vocal, die-hard antivaxxers. So when you lie and pretend that there is NEVER a detrimental effect to vaccination, rather than explaining calmly just how rare it is compared the incredibly common and harmful risks of NOT vaccinating, then you just drive them further away from the truth.
People arent reading your statements, maybe synthetize a little: vaccines have side effects thay may, in very very rare occasions, affect your child, but its by no means a reason not to vacvinate. Sorry for the downvotes, dude.
Load More Replies...My grandmother was a staunch Southern Baptist Christian. By all appearances, she had the make up of an Anti-Vaxx person. The truth? I never missed getting vaccinated and still have my Vaxx card from the 80's. Why? Because she got to witness first hand the horrible effects of Polio and lost relatives to Chicken Pox. Ill never understand these people and fear for their children.
Because vaccines work and these diseases are gone people quickly forget the horror of preventable diseases.
Load More Replies...Hahaha the stupidity of the antivax movement aside, the responses were quite funny! X'D
One of my favorite things to say: Two things that never get old: dark humor and kids that aren't vaccinated. I'm happy to see California taking a stance on this nonsense. Maybe the rest of the country will join in. Who am I kidding?
Don't fight with the anti-vaxxers. Let's just bide our time and let nature take its course.
Sadly its not them that will feel the consequences, but their kids
Load More Replies...Go for it. I'm grateful my mother got me vaccinated for the new polio and the new rubella vaccines. (I had red measles, chicken pox and mumps as a kid). My kids got the new vaccines and their kids get the newest vaccines. That's what's called being healthy, a good citizen and detonating concern for the weak of our communities
The maddest thing about the anti-vaxers is that they were probably all vaccinated themselves and they've no more health problems than the general population (except for the mental health/child abusing problems they have I guess).
What's the worst that could happen if you get vaccinated? - You could die. What's the worst that could happen if you *don't* get vaccinated? - You could catch a preventable disease and die. The immune-compromised, un-vaxxable, and fear-mongering unvaxxed around you could catch a preventable disease and die.
I think I must have come across as an antivaxxer in my first post, but as an extreme proponent of vaccines this is important, so I'm going to try again. What most people don't realize is that there is a very large population of "vaccine-hesitant" parents who can be convinced how important vaccination is, but they're just not sure who to believe and so they hesitate and don't vaccinate and obviously that's very dangerous. So it's very important that we try to calmly explain the facts to these people. It's harmful to our cause to laugh at them and say that there are NEVER side effects to vaccines. It's EXTREMELY rare, but it does happen. (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm) To put their fears to rest, what we must make clear is just how rare this is versus the very real, extremely harmful risks of NOT vaccinating or even of just not vaccinating on schedule.
Parmeisan is correct. Though very very rare some people do have adverse reactions to vaccines. Denying this only plays into the anti-vaxxers hands. The pros for vaccinations outweigh the cons by an innumerable margin even with acknowledging that fact.
Load More Replies...Anti-vaxxers rather see their children dead or in a wheelchair with polio than taking the risk of vaccinating them and turning them into autists. /S Repeat: /S
It's a bizarre claim, especially as the "scientist" who claimed the autism link was found to have been paid off by parents to fake a positive link. What's more bizarre is that many of these people think they're being all anti-Big Pharma (which is perfectly fine to be, we should ALWAYS follow the money) but will believe in homeopathy and nutbag s**t like that, that is both useless and costly
Load More Replies...Now's the time for antivax supporters to go to China and prove their point
Ok, vaccines are necessary, but for people to comment that vaccine injury does not exist only shows that they have not done any research. There is no link to autism, at least not one strong enough to be viable. BUT, there ARE many many cases of vaccine injury. It is all about numbers, it may be only a percent of a percent, but when millions are dosed it WILL happen. Be smart, get vaccinated, but don't claim/pretend that vaccine injury is not a thing.
It is undeniable that there IS a small percentage of people died due to complications arise from vaccination... Nothing is totally fool-proof, there even people died due to allergy with anesthesia so are we gonna ban it all and have everyone bring operated with full conscious?
now he really has to try his best not to die or they'll say he died due to getting vaccinated!
it's quite possible to die after receiving vaccine but it is very rare and there are some contested vaccines like Gardasil (banned in Japan) that can result in death - again, VERY rare and more to do with the individual's biology. If you were to die by vaccine it's not so much the chemicals or whatever the claim is as it would be the lack of treatment of symptoms that are quite normal (fevers etc) and the incorrect administration of it - wrong dose, unclean syringe, lack of preparation etc
That would have been done on purpose. An upside-down flag means that things are "in distress" or aren't right. That's how they feel. Too bad.
Load More Replies...The comment "A vigil for a thing that doesn't exist" isn't helping anybody. The biggest source of unvaccinated children is in the vaccine-hesitant, not (as you might think) the vocal, die-hard antivaxxers. So when you lie and pretend that there is NEVER a detrimental effect to vaccination, rather than explaining calmly just how rare it is compared the incredibly common and harmful risks of NOT vaccinating, then you just drive them further away from the truth.
People arent reading your statements, maybe synthetize a little: vaccines have side effects thay may, in very very rare occasions, affect your child, but its by no means a reason not to vacvinate. Sorry for the downvotes, dude.
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