[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/11/mark-zuckerberg-angers-anti-vaxxers-with-photo-of-baby-at-doctors-office-getting-vaccinations/[/url]
[quote]It is of course another milestone, complete with an “aww”-inducing photo of Max. But this one set the Internet aflame in a way a gingerbread house never could, because this post is not really about Max at all — many see it as her billionaire father showing his hand in the vaccine debate.
Many of Zuckerberg’s 47 million-some followers saw the post as a not-so-subtle expression of support for vaccinations, the public health matter at the center of an ongoing debate on modern science and civil liberties.
“Thanks for protecting your child, and other children who can’t be vaccinated, and for supporting science!” wrote user Allison Hagood. “Adorable baby.”
(A major element of vaccine advocacy is “herd immunity,” which protects an entire community, including those who are not immune, when a critical portion of the population has been immunized.)
Another user, Elsa Sakz, countered: “Vaccine is poison for human kind. It kills more people than it helps. I wish people don’t take it as an example here.”[/quote]
Thoughts, Flood?
Try to stay civil, please.
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Edited by Lankee Clipper: 1/13/2016 2:19:15 PMI can empathize with this. My wife and I had our baby girl vaccinated a few months ago and my wife posted something to Facebook saying that the baby was having a rough day because the vaccinations made her legs sore at the injection sites. It wasn't intended to be a pro-vaccine statement at all. From the response, you would have thought she posted something promoting terrorism or murder. She got assailed with comments saying she is a mindless sheep, that people hoped we had fun poisoning our child, and one guy even said "I hope your baby gets polio anyway." So many people were unfriended.