deadcatwithaflamethrower:

gehayi:

or a adinfinitumxx:

appropriately-inappropriate:

doyouthinkaboutme:

memeguy-com:

years later House is still as relevant as he ever was

I wasn’t vaccinated and never got sick so

And I swam and didn’t drown.

Anecdotes aren’t evidence. The reason YOU specifically didn’t get sick is because of something called Mass Immunity.

That means that since everyone ELSE is vaccinated (you’re welcome), there’s nowhere for the virus to establish a hold.
That mass immunity is the only thing that keeps people who CANNOT vaccinate—like the immunocompromised—from catching it.

The second that people stop vaccinating, that immunity disappears and the disease resurges, as is clear from the fact that the US is currently experiencing an epidemic of a disease that was projected to become extinct in our lifetimes.

Get immunized. There’s no reason not to.

Considering that there’s a whole host of people in my age range who weren’t vaccinated enough (even I was missing the second dose of MMR until recently) getting the measles and the mumps I think it’s ridiculous that we’re arguing over a life and death situation. Literally, do you want to live or die?

Also, even if you weren’t vaccinated and never got sick–at least not visibly–that doesn’t preclude the possibility that you picked up a virus and passed it on without knowing it. 

Maybe you had…oh, let’s say measles. But you had no symptoms. Or maybe you had a fever,  or sore eyes, or a harsh dry cough, but that was it. But nothing that said anything was seriously wrong. And in the meantime, you went about your business. Maybe you waited for a bus with an old man, or shared an aisle at the store with a pregnant woman and her wailing one-year-old, or attended a party with your friends.  

And the disease you didn’t know you had? That passed on to the people you met, or to people that they met. The disease you didn’t know you had was passed to a friend at that party, and she passed it to her mother and father, they passed it to their workmates, and now two offices are sick with your measles. The old man you saw at the bus stop? He got pneumonia as a result of the measles you passed to him. The pregnant woman from the store? She miscarried. Her baby, who was too young to be vaccinated? She developed encephalitis and died. 

You’re not the only one who’s being protected by your vaccination. You’re protecting everyone else as well. That’s the fucking POINT of vaccination.

Anti-vaxxers are permenantly on my shit-list as irresponsible, selfish motherfuckers and they can leave my planet any time they like.

My fiancee’s immunocompromised, and we’re both autistic. Guess which affliction is worse. No, seriously.

Anyone who tells me to my face that they’d rather their child KILL SOMEONE ELSE with their goddamn preventable disease than end up like me will get a big fat fist in the face.

naamahdarling:

slowdissolve:

firebirdeternal:

thelightofthingshopedfor:

whitepeopletwitter:

She has a point

There are two situations in which I make extremely sure I’m going precisely at or below the speed limit:

• I see a cop
• Some asshole is tailgating me

This is both spiteful AND practical, because you can’t control whether or not they give you a safe following distance for the speed you’re travelling, but you CAN reduce the speed you both have to travel, having the triple benefit of
 A) increasing the likelihood that they’ll have enough time to stop without rear-ending you.
 B) lowering the speed of any possible collision and thus the severity and
 C) Pissing the fucker the fuck off.

I feel so valid now

I try to be patient because sometimes I feel like something must be wrong like they REALLY have to poop, but 9/10 times you just get that asshole vibe, you know? And that’s when you give ‘em the brakes. Multiple times if necessary.

@naamahdarling, given your hypothetical situation – why not both reasons? 😀

stripedsilverfeline:

THAT!!!!!!

Really, this means two things: a) that Trump is incompetent, and b) that customer-service employees shouldn’t be required to grin and bear it.