re: #113 CarolJ

One more thing. What happens to these special snowflakes once they become 18 and have to leave the nest? Do these people even think that far? One of the anti-vaxxers has a 16 year old daughter. Girls can get pregnant at 16, and if anything these girls would be even more vulnerable, let alone their babies to anything going around. Being pregnant is a form of immunosuppression, which is why there are special cautions about pregnant women and disease.

Men can’t avoid the consequences either. Guys enter the military and live and work in close quarters. Domitory living has its vulnerabilties. Jobs these days have dozens of people working together in cubicles that don’t go to the top of the ceiling, and one coughing co-worker can spread airborne disease. Some manual jobs are natural disease vectors, working around dirt, sweat and less than sanitary conditions.

But their special snowflake kids won’t ever be around less-than-optimal conditions, so they think.

That thought came to me while I was loading the washer just now: “Do these parents think they can control everything their kids do and interact with once they leave the house?” How do they think they’re preparing their kid for the real world when they’re making them vulnerable to diseases that could cost them everything from a job to their mobility to even their lives? And what do they expect to happen if they should decide to go into a field of work where employers make vaccinations compulsory?