Anti-Vaxx Mom Asks How To Stop Her Son From Getting Vaccines When He Turns 18, Gets Shut Down In The Comments
Teenager Ethan Lindenberger, from Ohio, made headlines this month as one of the witnesses testifying before The US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions pleading the need for vaccines, after the story of his anti-vaxx mom made waves across the internet. Lindenberger first posted about his mom to r/nostupidquestions on Reddit asking if he could get vaccinated without parental consent. Needless to say, people were triggered by the question and used it to highlight the misinformation and harm of the anti-vaxxer movement.
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Well, Lindenberger’s mom is not alone. A woman turned to the internet for vaccine advice, but unlike the Ohio teen, this anti-vaxx mom was searching for ways on how to stop her almost-legal son from getting immunized once he became of age.
Instead of advice, the woman got some pretty brutal responses
In an attempt to squelch the anti-vaxx internet women like this have created, Facebook has decided it will no longer permit advertisements that include false information on vaccines along with removing targeting options such as “vaccine controversies.”
Anti-vaccine propaganda has had such far-reaching influence that measles outbreaks have surged around the globe. The World Health Organization has named the anti-vaxx movement as ‘vaccine hesitancy’ – “the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines,” and lists it as one of the top threats to global health for 2019.
The most widely spread and disproven hoax about vaccines is that there is a link between the measles vaccine and autism. Facebook is not the only platform to tackle this issue, in 2017 Pinterest, explicitly banned the “promotion of false cures for terminal or chronic illnesses and anti-vaccination advice.” In February Youtube said they would not allow channels that promote anti-vax content to run advertising, saying explicitly that such videos fall under its policy that prohibits the monetization of videos with “dangerous and harmful” content.
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Share on FacebookAll anti-vaxxers are vaccinated. I find that very ironic. Kudos to the kid for making it this far!
Here's the beautiful thing about this..she can't stop him. He will be an adult and capable of making his own decisions. I also think that kids that want to be vaccinated against parents wishes before 18 should be allowed to do so legally. There are some health departments out there that provide medical services to teens without parental consent..this should be amongst the things offered to them.
Ok. But can we stop with the "zomg! He made it to 18?!" b******t? The reason this kid made it, is because of herd immunity, a sound healthcare system (provided mum isn't the pray away the illness kind of person) and probably not living in a country with various exotic diseases. While it's true that the more unvaccinated people we have, the less effective herd immunity will become, and there is a certain point when it will become completely useless, I feel that the use of a condescending tone, finger-pointing and public ridicule is not the way to go. Yes, it's annoying to have to explain something like disease control and vaccinations over and over again. But entire generations grew up on books reviewed and edited within an inch of their binding. To these people, the fact that the internet is an open-sourced system, where everyone can say whatever they want is not necessarily something they are able to grasp.
Doesn't mean he didn't give measles or something else to a younger child who wasn't old enough to be vaccinated. She is risking her sons life and the lives of other little ones around him.
Load More Replies...Most definitely. I am too and I see these questions all the time, surprised so many people take the bait. Though it does make for some good reads.
Load More Replies...I don't get it. Kinda bored but also intrigued re. The number of anti-vacs posts. All in English... is this an American / Australian thing or otherwise? Because we so don't have this social trend in the U.K. to the same extent. There was a fuss a few years ago / we realised it was b******t / we got on with life / we carried on vaccinating because we're not stupid and it's the right thing to do. WTF?
Right around 50 countries have English as their native tongue
Load More Replies...In the U.K. we have nurses who come in to our school and as long as your parents have signed the form, you get your vaccinations there and then. Now my friend is one of the quietest people I have ever met and she's always followed the rules but that was the only time I saw her forge a signature
In one comment it said we were walking polio entusiatics, a month ago, a kid was diagnosed with a currently uncurable form of polio, which was a Ancient strain
Typical teenager caving in to the peer pressure of tens of thousands of scientists. If only his mother were this immature.
I hate shots in general...id my mum was anti vaxx, and I had to get multiple shots, like 12, from the overdue ones, I would LOSE IT...lol
The easy way for her to keep her son from getting vaccinated when he turns 18 is for her to go to the CDC in Atlanta, get a vial of polio virus from storage and give it to her son as an early birthday present. Good luck with him getting to doc on his own once he is stuck in an iron lung!
I'm glad that I live in a third world country where you're obliged to get vaccinations in schools and highschool , and without vaccines you can't go to school public or private
It mystifies me how someon can not vaxxinat their kid against polio! Measles, Rubella etc, ok, nasty, but complications are really rare. I grew up in Germany in the 70s and 80s and nobody got vaccinated against any of these. They were called 'Child deseases - something you have as a child and as kids we bragged who had been thorugh the most. (My opinion about that has changed, though) I can also understand that you don't want to cram several dozen vaccines into your child. Some of the stuff that is vaccinated against is really obscure. But Polio? Or Tetanus? It's really not that hard to catch Tetantus and the death that follwos it is excrutiating. I just don'T understand it.
There was a boy who got Tetanus. His hospital bill was 800,000 + and he almost died. He got the first shot in the hospital and the parents refused the second shot. People are fricken idiots.
Load More Replies...He made it to eighteen? Good for him! I turned to my friend right beside me and said “Oh my god, this kid didn’t die at three!” She saw the title and agreed! I’m glad that he is smarter than his mom and decidide to protect himself.
I am pro-vaxx, but some vaccinations weren't mandatory here when I was a kid. I caught Hepatitis A in high school and then chicken pox at 25. I was lucky to be light case both times, so no permanent damage from either of them, just the suffering while I was ill. Even if you do catch something, it can still turn out well, but better not take chances with this things. One day my kids will get all their vaccines, so they don't have to go through what I have. He's lucky that herd immunity was still strong enough while he was a kid, so he didn't catch anything.
Load More Replies...If measles, mumps, and rubella haven't stopped him by now, this woman is going to be 100% ineffective in doing so. Give up.
I have a bone to pick with the person who referred to anti-vaxxer parents as psychotic. I have schizophrenia, which is a psychotic illness, but I believe in the effectiveness of vaccines. Psychotic doesn't mean stupid ; it means mentally ill that can be treated with medications.
I take exception with using the word "triggered" in the intro. That is a real term that includes someone having a flashback, for example flashing back in the mind to a violent rape or assault and feeling some of it as if it were happening again. Please stop over-using and mis-using the word.
The main person that started all this garbage, Jennie McCarthy, says now that she's not anti-vax, she's actually pro-vax, but thinks they should be spaced further apart. Scientists have said that even that is not the most efficient way to do that. And, oh yeah, she claims her kid isn't autistic after all.
Smart young adult! Bad mom! Hat I hate about anti vaccinators, is that , in any other case, or a life or death situation, they would do whatever they could, to save. The lives of their children! Yet, they have no worries about keeping them at risk, by not vaccinating them! So which is it,, medical science knows nothing, Or yes, they can perform miracles and vaccines are some of those miracles, that save lives... that is so. Stupid.
Oh don't worry! Let me suck on this root I found in the forest, that should heal my Polio right up.
Disclaimer: user does not actually believe in (nor respect) alternative medicine.
Load More Replies...Been on a flight on a Airbus 380 back home, when it turned out that two passengers had measles. I had been informed by the airline and had to observe my state of health for the following three weeks. I'm vaccinated, so no worries for me. But if you consider the aircraft may carry about 850 passengers imagine the fear and trouble it caused!
Good thinking kid! There is hope out there! As someone with autism it hurts me to read about antivaxxers who seem to rather have dead children than autistic ones. Even IF there was a vaccin with a sideeffect of autistic behavior I would´ve taken it. I value my life, no matter how quirky and weird that life looks in other peoples narrow views
I wish people, even in jest, would stop suggesting that if you're unvaccinated you're definitely going to die. It doesn't help anti-vaxxers take your message seriously when you spout such trash.
if she doesn't treat him as a son after this well least we'll know her ego was more important then her child to her.
Unreal she is still trying to control this issue when the person turns 18. Which is what sucks the most, this person probably wanted it done earlier, but had to wait because his mother would not allow it.
Just a bunch of internet heroes talking trash. We all know anti-vaxxers are ignorant, there's no need to celebrate it.
This reminds me of the movie "The Glass Castle". Escape!
My only gripe in regards to vaccinations was my daughter wanting Gardasil. I don't agree with that one, but she wanted it & at 16 I took her to her appointment. I figure she was old enough to make her own decisions about her body. I have a few friends that had babies at 16, so if they are old enough to be parents, my kid can get a shot. She had ALL of her shots by the way*
Gardisil has left some girls sterile and killed at least one girl. There are other strains of HPV not in that vaccine, so...
Load More Replies...It's called herd immunity. Look it up. Be a part of our strength, not a weakness in our armor.
Load More Replies...He probably made it to 18 bc his dad got him vaccinated lol go dad
BP wrote their explanation for that at the top of another article. It’s an important issue, children are dying because their parents are choosing to abuse them by not vaccinating, and there’s no reason not to vaccinate. ...///... This IS inspiring. The fact that these kids are standing up to their hysterical abusive parents is a Good Thing.
Load More Replies...All anti-vaxxers are vaccinated. I find that very ironic. Kudos to the kid for making it this far!
Here's the beautiful thing about this..she can't stop him. He will be an adult and capable of making his own decisions. I also think that kids that want to be vaccinated against parents wishes before 18 should be allowed to do so legally. There are some health departments out there that provide medical services to teens without parental consent..this should be amongst the things offered to them.
Ok. But can we stop with the "zomg! He made it to 18?!" b******t? The reason this kid made it, is because of herd immunity, a sound healthcare system (provided mum isn't the pray away the illness kind of person) and probably not living in a country with various exotic diseases. While it's true that the more unvaccinated people we have, the less effective herd immunity will become, and there is a certain point when it will become completely useless, I feel that the use of a condescending tone, finger-pointing and public ridicule is not the way to go. Yes, it's annoying to have to explain something like disease control and vaccinations over and over again. But entire generations grew up on books reviewed and edited within an inch of their binding. To these people, the fact that the internet is an open-sourced system, where everyone can say whatever they want is not necessarily something they are able to grasp.
Doesn't mean he didn't give measles or something else to a younger child who wasn't old enough to be vaccinated. She is risking her sons life and the lives of other little ones around him.
Load More Replies...Most definitely. I am too and I see these questions all the time, surprised so many people take the bait. Though it does make for some good reads.
Load More Replies...I don't get it. Kinda bored but also intrigued re. The number of anti-vacs posts. All in English... is this an American / Australian thing or otherwise? Because we so don't have this social trend in the U.K. to the same extent. There was a fuss a few years ago / we realised it was b******t / we got on with life / we carried on vaccinating because we're not stupid and it's the right thing to do. WTF?
Right around 50 countries have English as their native tongue
Load More Replies...In the U.K. we have nurses who come in to our school and as long as your parents have signed the form, you get your vaccinations there and then. Now my friend is one of the quietest people I have ever met and she's always followed the rules but that was the only time I saw her forge a signature
In one comment it said we were walking polio entusiatics, a month ago, a kid was diagnosed with a currently uncurable form of polio, which was a Ancient strain
Typical teenager caving in to the peer pressure of tens of thousands of scientists. If only his mother were this immature.
I hate shots in general...id my mum was anti vaxx, and I had to get multiple shots, like 12, from the overdue ones, I would LOSE IT...lol
The easy way for her to keep her son from getting vaccinated when he turns 18 is for her to go to the CDC in Atlanta, get a vial of polio virus from storage and give it to her son as an early birthday present. Good luck with him getting to doc on his own once he is stuck in an iron lung!
I'm glad that I live in a third world country where you're obliged to get vaccinations in schools and highschool , and without vaccines you can't go to school public or private
It mystifies me how someon can not vaxxinat their kid against polio! Measles, Rubella etc, ok, nasty, but complications are really rare. I grew up in Germany in the 70s and 80s and nobody got vaccinated against any of these. They were called 'Child deseases - something you have as a child and as kids we bragged who had been thorugh the most. (My opinion about that has changed, though) I can also understand that you don't want to cram several dozen vaccines into your child. Some of the stuff that is vaccinated against is really obscure. But Polio? Or Tetanus? It's really not that hard to catch Tetantus and the death that follwos it is excrutiating. I just don'T understand it.
There was a boy who got Tetanus. His hospital bill was 800,000 + and he almost died. He got the first shot in the hospital and the parents refused the second shot. People are fricken idiots.
Load More Replies...He made it to eighteen? Good for him! I turned to my friend right beside me and said “Oh my god, this kid didn’t die at three!” She saw the title and agreed! I’m glad that he is smarter than his mom and decidide to protect himself.
I am pro-vaxx, but some vaccinations weren't mandatory here when I was a kid. I caught Hepatitis A in high school and then chicken pox at 25. I was lucky to be light case both times, so no permanent damage from either of them, just the suffering while I was ill. Even if you do catch something, it can still turn out well, but better not take chances with this things. One day my kids will get all their vaccines, so they don't have to go through what I have. He's lucky that herd immunity was still strong enough while he was a kid, so he didn't catch anything.
Load More Replies...If measles, mumps, and rubella haven't stopped him by now, this woman is going to be 100% ineffective in doing so. Give up.
I have a bone to pick with the person who referred to anti-vaxxer parents as psychotic. I have schizophrenia, which is a psychotic illness, but I believe in the effectiveness of vaccines. Psychotic doesn't mean stupid ; it means mentally ill that can be treated with medications.
I take exception with using the word "triggered" in the intro. That is a real term that includes someone having a flashback, for example flashing back in the mind to a violent rape or assault and feeling some of it as if it were happening again. Please stop over-using and mis-using the word.
The main person that started all this garbage, Jennie McCarthy, says now that she's not anti-vax, she's actually pro-vax, but thinks they should be spaced further apart. Scientists have said that even that is not the most efficient way to do that. And, oh yeah, she claims her kid isn't autistic after all.
Smart young adult! Bad mom! Hat I hate about anti vaccinators, is that , in any other case, or a life or death situation, they would do whatever they could, to save. The lives of their children! Yet, they have no worries about keeping them at risk, by not vaccinating them! So which is it,, medical science knows nothing, Or yes, they can perform miracles and vaccines are some of those miracles, that save lives... that is so. Stupid.
Oh don't worry! Let me suck on this root I found in the forest, that should heal my Polio right up.
Disclaimer: user does not actually believe in (nor respect) alternative medicine.
Load More Replies...Been on a flight on a Airbus 380 back home, when it turned out that two passengers had measles. I had been informed by the airline and had to observe my state of health for the following three weeks. I'm vaccinated, so no worries for me. But if you consider the aircraft may carry about 850 passengers imagine the fear and trouble it caused!
Good thinking kid! There is hope out there! As someone with autism it hurts me to read about antivaxxers who seem to rather have dead children than autistic ones. Even IF there was a vaccin with a sideeffect of autistic behavior I would´ve taken it. I value my life, no matter how quirky and weird that life looks in other peoples narrow views
I wish people, even in jest, would stop suggesting that if you're unvaccinated you're definitely going to die. It doesn't help anti-vaxxers take your message seriously when you spout such trash.
if she doesn't treat him as a son after this well least we'll know her ego was more important then her child to her.
Unreal she is still trying to control this issue when the person turns 18. Which is what sucks the most, this person probably wanted it done earlier, but had to wait because his mother would not allow it.
Just a bunch of internet heroes talking trash. We all know anti-vaxxers are ignorant, there's no need to celebrate it.
This reminds me of the movie "The Glass Castle". Escape!
My only gripe in regards to vaccinations was my daughter wanting Gardasil. I don't agree with that one, but she wanted it & at 16 I took her to her appointment. I figure she was old enough to make her own decisions about her body. I have a few friends that had babies at 16, so if they are old enough to be parents, my kid can get a shot. She had ALL of her shots by the way*
Gardisil has left some girls sterile and killed at least one girl. There are other strains of HPV not in that vaccine, so...
Load More Replies...It's called herd immunity. Look it up. Be a part of our strength, not a weakness in our armor.
Load More Replies...He probably made it to 18 bc his dad got him vaccinated lol go dad
BP wrote their explanation for that at the top of another article. It’s an important issue, children are dying because their parents are choosing to abuse them by not vaccinating, and there’s no reason not to vaccinate. ...///... This IS inspiring. The fact that these kids are standing up to their hysterical abusive parents is a Good Thing.
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