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Originally Posted by hottoddy
Many years ago, no child was "autistic" - but there were tons of retards.
Today, no child is a "retard" - but there are tons with "autism spectrum disorder," various types of "ADHD" etc. Isn't is just a label? Are the ratios between the two eras any different?
In society's panic to label a cause, many are foregoing vaccinations. Now we have fucking medieval diseases breaking out here and there. For a while, these folks were merely relying on other people's vaccination to protect their children from outbreaks. But once the unvaccinated hit a certain number, larger outbreaks are sure to follow.
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There is actually massive correlation between autism and the age of the parents. A 35 year old male is something like 15 times more likely to have an autistic child than a 25 year old male. And what's happening atm? Everyone's waiting longer and longer to have kids... more autism, better diagnosis. And a few whackjobs on the internet who couldn't recognise a fact is it sat on their face and suffocated them. They all cried "Mercury - Mercury!" then they took mercury out of the scheduled childhood vaccinations and autism kept going up proving any link was total bullshit.. then they moved onto something else.. It's just whackamole with crazy, you can't win, you knock one down and they shift to something else and then forget you knocked the other one down and start using it again.
It's just a shame you can't round up all the people that think "measles is safe" even though it's thousands of times less safe than a vaccine and put them on an island where their kids can die, become infertile, deaf etc and not harm the rest of us.