Disaster Anti-vaccine advocates appointed to Minnesota autism council after measles outbreak - Yes, you've read that right

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A nurse prepares to administer the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine as well as a vaccine used to help prevent the diseases of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and polio at Children's Primary Care Clinic in Minneapolis, MN, Friday, April 28, 2017.

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Officials in Minnesota have appointed anti-vaccine advocates to a newly formed state council on autism, sparking controversy in the wake of a record measles outbreak in the state.

State senator Jim Abeler formed the MN Autism Council last fall to address issues surrounding autism, including “treatment, educational options, employment opportunities, independent living, and more.” While about one in 59 children in the US are diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, the rate in Minnesota is one in 42.

Though the council is not designed to take up the issue of vaccination, it has been ensnared in controversy due to the anti-vaccine sentiments it includes, according to a report in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. At least two of the council’s more than 30 members are skeptical of vaccine safety and oppose compulsory immunizations. One of those skeptical members, Wayne Rohde, was one of three initial people Abeler appointed to the council. Rohde was charged with helping to shape the council and with picking other members.

Rohde is a cofounder of the Vaccine Safety Council of Minnesota, which promotes the notion that vaccines are harmful despite extensive scientific data indicating that they're safe. He is also as an executive for Health Choice, which advocates that chronic health conditions in children are caused by “unhealthy choices” including “side effects of vaccine choices.” Another council member, Patti Carroll, is also part of both groups.

Rohde has argued to the Star Tribune that the ties aren’t relevant. “We’re not about causation within the council. The council is all about how to deal and help those who are afflicted, and their families and those who provide services,” he said.

But autism advocates and other council members disagree. “Even if it’s not something that’s discussed or that a policy is going to come out of, giving them this large contingency on this council is dangerous. It’s giving credence to a theory that’s false,” council member Noah McCourt told the Star Tribune. McCourt is an autism advocate who also serves on the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities.

The state of Minnesota has been a battleground for anti-vaccine sentiments. For years, anti-vaccine advocates had pounced on fears of autism there, largely in the state’s Somali immigrant communities. This fueled a measles outbreak in 2017, which was largest the state had seen in decades.

I didn't know Minnesota is a satellite state of California. Are they always this retarded?

 

[Jerry_ smith56]

Frostbite must be cutting off circulation to peoples brains up in Minnesota.

 

[CWCchange]

Somalis are literally re.tarded and won't get vaccinated because their religion. Anybody who can't figure that out is dumber than a Somali.

 

[RodgerDodger]

So they have an official council of autists?

 

[Colonel J]

At least two of the council’s more than 30 members are skeptical of vaccine safety and oppose compulsory immunizations.

Nothing wrong with not wanting to give the government the power to force injections onto you.

 

[IV 445]

Somalis are literally re.tarded and won't get vaccinated because their religion. Anybody who can't figure that out is dumber than a Somali.

When I read that story that’s the first thing that came to my mind. “It HAS to be immigrants causing these outbreaks”

 

[SiccDicc]

There's a song called Minnesota's the New California... It's not wrong, Minnesota continuously gets worse the more refugees Dayton or others like him take in. Plus the State has constantly been progressive even among its conservative movements.

I blame the Swedes.

 

[Ruin]

As a Wisconsinite I thank the lord everyone here is a gun nut because otherwise we'd be fucked if Minnesotans and their idiot Somali pets bankrupted the state and stormed the border.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

The fuck does anybody expect out of the state that gave us Al Frankenstein AND Michelle Bachmann?

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I'm also going to post this in the cursed images thread, but:

Spoiler: This person is definitely one of them.

Of course in Massachusetts.

 

[Colonel J]

I'm also going to post this in the cursed images thread, but:

Spoiler: This person is definitely one of them.

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Of course in Massachusetts.

Vaccines DO have side-effects. The extreme ones are just rare.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Vaccines DO have side-effects. The extreme ones are just rare.

Well, sure. Everything has side effects, but it's a cost vs benefit thing.
People who don't vaccinate due to faulty scientific beliefs are assholes who make things worse for everybody.

 

[Clop]

He is also as an executive for Health Choice, which advocates that chronic health conditions in children are caused by “unhealthy choices”

Yeah no fucking kidding.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

I didn't know Minnesota is a satellite state of California. Are they always this exceptional?

Despite loons like Jenny McCarthy calling the state home, California actually has a mandatory vaccination law for school children on the books.

California’s mandatory-vaccination law survives court test
Outline.com

And they're more like a satellite state to Somalia at this point.

 

[Antipathy]

At least two of the council’s more than 30 members are skeptical of vaccine safety and oppose compulsory immunizations.

Nothing wrong with not wanting to give the government the power to force injections onto you.

Muh rights to give muh children easily preventable diseases and cause public health crises, endangering the lives of others.

You might as well say that you shouldn't be arrested for dumping cyanide into the water supply of a city or shooting up a school.

 

[Colonel J]

Muh rights to give muh children easily preventable diseases and cause public health crises, endangering the lives of others.

Correct. If you believe the government should force people to inject themselves with things they don't want to, that's fine. Just be honest about it. And look up herd immunity while you're at it.

 

[Ma_Hooty]

At least two of the council’s more than 30 members are skeptical of vaccine safety and oppose compulsory immunizations.

Nothing wrong with not wanting to give the government the power to force injections onto you.

Are you actually ree.tarded?
Did you take high school science classes?
Do you know how smallpox - one of the most deadly diseases in the history of man - was eradicated from the human population? Worldwide?
Do you know the term "herd immunity"?
Do you know how fucking dangerous measles is to young children and elders? Do you know how fucking contagious it is?

I don't care if I'm A-loggy as fuck, but brainlets like you are the reason influenza killed 80,000 people in 2017-18 and why we have fucking pox parties today.

Go read a fucking biology book, for humanity's sake.

 

[Shugo]

Are you actually ree.tarded?
Did you take high school science classes?
Do you know how smallpox - one of the most deadly diseases in the history of man - was eradicated from the human population? Worldwide?
Do you know the term "herd immunity"?
Do you know how fucking dangerous measles is to young children and elders? Do you know how fucking contagious it is?

I don't care if I'm A-loggy as fuck, but brainlets like you are the reason influenza killed 80,000 people in 2017-18 and why we have fucking pox parties today.

Go read a fucking biology book, for humanity's sake.

I think the government should have the power to inject you with a lethal injection.

If you disagree with giving the government unlimited power to inject foreign objects into your and your children's bloodstream, you obviously don't know about vaccines.

 

[Antipathy]

Correct. If you believe the government should force people to inject themselves with things they don't want to, that's fine. Just be honest about it. And look up herd immunity while you're at it.

Herd immunity is compromised every time some idiot wants measles over a tiny shot. Some government regulations are stupid, fine, I'll concede that, but the regulation of "hey maybe you shouldn't give your kids and people with compromised immune systems horrible diseases" is a fairly decent one. It's idiots like you that cause these measles outbreaks, and if morons like you were more prevalent, Smallpox would still be a thing.

Your rights end where the safety of others begins.

 

[Ma_Hooty]

I think the government should have the power to inject you with a lethal injection.

If you disagree with giving the government unlimited power to inject foreign objects into your and your children's bloodstream, you obviously don't know about vaccines.

And you don't know how vaccines work, apparently. They don't inject you with cyanide, it's a dead or weakened virus they use in vaccines so your immune system is able to identify and destroy the real deal, should you come into contact with it.
Hell, even if you do contract the flu even when you've been vaccinated, the symptoms are lessened a great deal.

I still can't believe people trust a quack doctor from the 90s who had his license revoked prior to his "findings" and crazy celebrities instead of actual biologists and immunologists.