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McConnell is the sane one now
He outlived polio. I can't blame him.
Yeah, my personal theory on antivaxxers is that they’re actually more afraid of autism.
Because autism is a very visible thing; Everyone knew that one autistic kid growing up. But there are no crunchy moms who remember life before the polio vaccine, because they’re all too young. They literally can’t even comprehend how bad some of these diseases are, because they’ve never seen the effects of them. They never lost a childhood friend to measles, or had a sibling end up infertile due to the mumps. They never saw the entire hospital wings full of iron lungs for polio patients.
To them, these diseases are boogeymen. But autism is very real, because they have seen it.
Which is the only response to those morons is "so you'd rather your kid die than be autistic?"
Make them admit it. Preferably in front of the kid.
There’s the issue though. They genuinely don’t believe the diseases are that bad. They don’t believe there is any risk of death, (or at least, that the risk is so low it’s negligible). So they wouldn’t admit it even if asked, because they would just say that you’re exaggerating.