I've linked to this article from Slate before
From January 3, 1967 [a 4 slide Peanuts cartoon]
Slide 1 Linus: WHY DO I HAVE TO GET A MEASLES SHOT?
Slide 2 Linus: WHO EVER WORRIES ABOUT MEASLES? WHAT'S A LITTLE "RUBEOLA" AMONG FRIENDS?
Slide 3 Lucy: YOUR STUPIDITY IS APPALLING!!!
Slide 4 Linus: MOST STUPIDITY IS!
Thanks Penny!
(Penny posted this on Facebook for an entirely different reason -- her views are not necessarily the same)
1 comments:
I agree. As I always tell people who don't want to "risk" the vacinne, I say, "Come read in my med textbook about XYZ disease. And in our global world, there is just too much chance of these diseases spreading if people stop vacinating....
Last year a friend said she didn't want to give the swine flue vacine because her child would maybe get a temperature. Since I knew THREE people who DIED from swine flue, I really blew my stack at that!
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