I’m not gonna watch the video, but I’m a scientist. I work with engineers.

The answer you’re looking for is no. (Maybe hell no.)

You should try yelling “money” again, that’ll definitely convince people. Of. Well, whatever it is you’re trying to convince us of.

There is nothing as hilarious as someone trying to use fancy words but missing pretty basic concepts of the language.

You’re trying to sound smart. It’s making you sound dumber.

“I am so smart, the answer is obvious. So I won’t tell you. If you don’t get it, you’re not as smart as me.”

🙄

Loudly agreeing with the fascists probably isn’t having the effect you want.

Fuck cynicism, we’re gonna fight!

I can’t think of a more direct way to get ignorant parents to understand the harm they’ve caused than for their own children to suffer from their actions

I don’t need them to understand. I’m okay if they’re angry. They can throw a fit on Facebook and get a million likes. But if their kid doesn’t get the measles, it’s worth it.

You’re saying you want to be proven right. I’m saying I don’t care what they think as long as their kids are okay.

And yeah, I’m from the US. A rural town from a flyover state. My parents vaccinated me during the Clinton administration because the whole right wing coalition was there to disagree with him, not convince their rank and file that he was the antichrist.

They can’t make their constituents hate “the left” (for whatever that’s worth in the US) any more than they already do. So why not just do the right thing? You’re correct in that center-left people will never enact what I’m suggesting. I’m going to stick around and make sure better people replace them.

In fact, I see a solution

I can’t conceive of any context in which this doesn’t mean “the suffering of children is a good outcome.” Like, the suffering of children will convince their parents that they were wrong?

There is a simple solution:

1. Vaccinations are provided at no cost.
2. Vaccinations are required by law. No religious exemption. No “I’m a parent and I say so” exemption.
3. Day one of school will be vaccination catch-up day for kids who have fallen behind.

That won’t get everyone. But it’ll get enough to ensure broad community immunity. The people writing and implementing the laws just have to be willing to grow a spine and say “your opinion as a parent does not overrule medical science.”

I was raised by said conservatives and if I was born thirty years later I’d have been unvaccinated. I don’t have a good answer for you. But you’re condemning a lot of people (that may eventually disagree with their parents!) to a pretty unhealthy existence.

Maybe consider being a little less gleeful when thinking about dead kids, even if their parents are assholes.

Being raised by conservative assholes shouldn’t be a death sentence.

I admire your anxiety-posting that suggests there’s nothing we can do and we’re doomed to fall into fascism.

Ah, actually no. I do not admire that. Spreading the message of “the fascists are unbeatable” is not as good for the non-fascist cause as you might think.

I know what you’re saying feels right to you, but it’s not really backed up by what’s happening.

I worked at IBM.

The people that run that place are the biggest corporate brain-rot dumbasses in the world. The only way to climb into their ranks is to be enough of a waste of oxygen that you aren’t threatening.

I was doing a chemistry project. One aspiring corporate idiot couldn’t believe why my group didn’t want to “incorporate blockchain” into our project. He’s a VP now.

If they ever do anything right, it’s only because they’ve run out of dumb shit things to do first. I assume those poor young people they’ll be hiring will be laid off at the first whiff of the next corporate fad.