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Anti-Vaxxer Tries To Shut Down People Who Are Pro-Vaccine, Gets A Perfect Comeback
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Anti-Vaxxer Tries To Shut Down People Who Are Pro-Vaccine, Gets A Perfect Comeback

Just 2 weeks after a shocking incident fiercely reignited the vaccination debate, another blow has been dealt with the anti-vaxxer firewall after a genius analogy against their logic (or lack of any common sense) went viral.

The widely-shared image, which compares vaccination to a bridge and disease to crocodile-infested waters, came accompanied by a short Facebook debate – the brevity of which was only due to an anti-vaccine commentator being brutally shut down by a science blog. The savage comeback was caught on screenshots and posted on Imgur, where it quickly made the front page with over 11 thousand upvotes.

Vaccine-preventable diseases are still a threat to children, notably measles, which has made a frightening comeback in the US and Europe. If this, paired with the plethora of research confirming vaccines to be safe and necessary, doesn’t serve as enough pro-vaccine ammo in your next argument over the issue, use this post as one of the best comebacks possible.

This analogy against ‘anti-vaxxer logic’ is going viral, and it’s reigniting an important discussion

Reactions from other users were overwhelmingly in support of the pro-vaxxer’s shattering argument

What do you think? Does the bridge analogy accurately describe the vaccine debate? Weigh in below!

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Laury M.
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those analogies are a bit badly expressed. I think it would be more like, "I refuse to go onto that bridge that has stood the test of time, because SOME people had accidents on it, and I've heard that bridges collapse at ANY MOMENT. I'd rather swim through that deep river with a very strong current because I think the bridge is just a ploy by the government to control us. I mean, they're the ones who built it! No one dies from crossing that river anymore anyway."

lazy panda
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, if you would rather allow your child to die from an illness that can be prevented instead of running the risk of developing autism (which has been shown to be false time and time again), you don't deserve to be a parent. It's that simple. And as for the ones who don't want "poison" put into their children's bodies: you better lock them in a damn closet so they never touch alcohol, drugs, or any other form of medication.

Master Markus
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. Also, the "study" that linked vaccines and autism was penned by Andrew Wakefield, a legally proven FRAUD. Seriously, if anyone is anti-vaccines, they should look at the actual evidence. The man lied, and everyone in the medical community knows he lied, and now he gets money from foolish people because he lies and tells them the conspiracies they want to hear. To any conspiracy theorists: just because you don't trust the government doesn't mean you should trust everyone who says something bad about them. We don't die from illnesses like smallpox that often now BECAUSE of vaccines, not in spite of them, and the increase in autism diagnoses is mostly down to the changing definition of what is considered autism rather than autism actually just making a sudden appearance (psychology is very complex and requires frequent changes in medical diagnosis and practice based on new discoveries and research).

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Cat Meow
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The analogy doesn't necessarily go into the part of how the anti-vaxxers choice of swimming through that water affects all pro-vaxxers whose children aren't even old enough to get vaccinated or already have health issues that requires a different vaccination schedule (like, there are vaccinations that cover multiple diseases at once, but due to health circumstances, the person in question can't get the single shot but instead needs to get the vaccination for one disease at a time spread out over time). And a random, but relevant side story: Back when I was in high school, I had a teacher whose daughter was born deaf because one of her students had measles or chicken pox. Apparently, they weren't visible, but they were still contagious. to this day, the story stuck with me.

La
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg yes this! Finally someone said it at the start of the comments.

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Laury M.
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those analogies are a bit badly expressed. I think it would be more like, "I refuse to go onto that bridge that has stood the test of time, because SOME people had accidents on it, and I've heard that bridges collapse at ANY MOMENT. I'd rather swim through that deep river with a very strong current because I think the bridge is just a ploy by the government to control us. I mean, they're the ones who built it! No one dies from crossing that river anymore anyway."

lazy panda
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, if you would rather allow your child to die from an illness that can be prevented instead of running the risk of developing autism (which has been shown to be false time and time again), you don't deserve to be a parent. It's that simple. And as for the ones who don't want "poison" put into their children's bodies: you better lock them in a damn closet so they never touch alcohol, drugs, or any other form of medication.

Master Markus
Community Member
5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. Also, the "study" that linked vaccines and autism was penned by Andrew Wakefield, a legally proven FRAUD. Seriously, if anyone is anti-vaccines, they should look at the actual evidence. The man lied, and everyone in the medical community knows he lied, and now he gets money from foolish people because he lies and tells them the conspiracies they want to hear. To any conspiracy theorists: just because you don't trust the government doesn't mean you should trust everyone who says something bad about them. We don't die from illnesses like smallpox that often now BECAUSE of vaccines, not in spite of them, and the increase in autism diagnoses is mostly down to the changing definition of what is considered autism rather than autism actually just making a sudden appearance (psychology is very complex and requires frequent changes in medical diagnosis and practice based on new discoveries and research).

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Cat Meow
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The analogy doesn't necessarily go into the part of how the anti-vaxxers choice of swimming through that water affects all pro-vaxxers whose children aren't even old enough to get vaccinated or already have health issues that requires a different vaccination schedule (like, there are vaccinations that cover multiple diseases at once, but due to health circumstances, the person in question can't get the single shot but instead needs to get the vaccination for one disease at a time spread out over time). And a random, but relevant side story: Back when I was in high school, I had a teacher whose daughter was born deaf because one of her students had measles or chicken pox. Apparently, they weren't visible, but they were still contagious. to this day, the story stuck with me.

La
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg yes this! Finally someone said it at the start of the comments.

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