The importance of vaccinating your children can’t be stressed enough. Especially nowadays, when the anti-vaxxer community is growing thanks to Illuminati-tier conspiracy theories that keep spreading like viruses.
Anti-vaxxers and people with at least an ounce of common sense simply screaming at each other won’t get us anywhere. What helps is arguing with a good dose of logic, as well as a dash of sass. When one anti-vaxxer showed his anger than an unvaccinated kid was kicked out of school in New York, people couldn't help but reply. When another anti-vaxxer then exclaimed that vaccines supposedly have mercury and other dangerous materials in them, a woman on Twitter, who uses the handle such_A_frknlady and describes herself as a neuroscientist, shut the argument down with cold logic.
If you’re in the mood to read some more of Bored Panda’s posts about anti-vaxxers, here’s one about the most entertaining responses to anti-vaxxers. Here’s another about people trolling anti-vaxxers with memes. And a third one about how the internet delivered when an anti-vaxxer mom asked how to protect her 3-year-old from the measles outbreak.
One anti-vaxxer blamed lawmakers and 'Big Pharma' for a kid being 'kicked out of school' for not being vaccinated
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One Twitter user couldn't help but make a joke
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Another anti-vaxxer alleged that vaccines have mercury in them...
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...causing the social media user who claims to have a PhD in neuroscience to hit back with logic
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According to anti-vaxxer mexico_maamii, everyone who vaccinates their children is ‘ignorant.’ But Twitter user such_A_frknlady, who in her bio says she’s Dr. Animoji Avi, a neuroscientist, said that every single kid vaccinated in the ‘last several decades’ would have been poisoned or killed if vaccines did, in fact, contain the incredibly dangerous materials that anti-vaxxers claim they do.
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Most social media users were supportive of Dr. Avi’s sassy comeback. However, one Reddit user questioned whether such_A_frknlady does, in fact, have a PhD, considering that she had previously used a Twitter nickname that would cause lots of outrage if we actually wrote it out in this post. Other Reddit users said that it doesn’t matter that a professor has a ‘funny social life,’ as long as she’s fighting anti-vaxxers online.
Across England, childhood vaccinations for 13 diseases have been falling year after year, a recent article from The Guardian warns. The United Kingdom saw a drop in MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) immunization, which led the country to lose its measles-free status. However, the British seem to be losing confidence in all vaccinations, not just the MMR jab.
Outbreaks are prevented when at least 95 percent of a country’s population is immunized. Unfortunately, in England, the rate of immunized children who are 24 months old dropped from 91.2 percent in 2017-2018 to only 90.3 percent in 2018-2019. This is the direct result of misinformation in the media and online.
Dear Pandas, what do you think of such_A_frknlady’s argument with the anti-vaxxer? What is the worst anti-vaxxer conspiracy that you’ve heard? What arguments would you use to explain to skeptics that vaccinations are an absolute must? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.
Here is how people reacted to the argument on Twitter
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