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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Antivaxxers are trash. If I know, see, or hear about antivaxxers and their kids, I pick up my kid and say “We have to get away from these irresponsible people. They don’t vaccinate.” I’ve done it twice and savored it both times. [/quote]

You may be a better citizen but you are a trash human being.

-proVax advocate who has never changed a mind with cruelty, isolation or venom. [/quote]

I don't care about changing minds, I care about my kid not dying from a preventable disease. These people will Darwin themselves out of existence soon enough. In the meanwhile, parents of unvaccinated kids who transmit their diseases to others should be charged with attempted manslaughter.[/quote]

That would be a catastrophe. [b]Also, there is no such thing as attempted manslaughter[/b]. But that opens the door to prosecuting people who pass on the flu, strep, common colds to babies, norovirus, etc....all things that can have as grave or even graver consequences then measles or pertussis.

Vaccination is important. Herd immunity is important. But your POV is completely illogical and produces no results except making you feel superior. Again, congratulations on being a good citizen. But your logic, reasoning, and heart all need A LOT of work.[/quote]

I thought the same thing but there is. Example: Florida Statute 782.07 prohibits anyone from committing manslaughter which is when a defendant commits, obtains, or is negligently culpable in an act that kills someone. Even if the individual did not kill someone, Florida Statute 777.04 prohibits anyone from attempting manslaughter.

Attempted manslaughter is where there would have been a death meeting the definition of manslaughter but the death was prevented by someone else, including the person who would have otherwise died.

777.04 basically says that any attempt to commit an act which would be a felony in Florida is chargeable as an attempted act of said felony.

There was a Law and Order SVU episode where they tried to charge an anti-vaxxer with the death of an child who had been at a playground where the anti-vaxxers kid (carrying measles) was playing, and the dead kid could not be vaccinated or was too young, I forget which.

As for anti-vaxxers:

Measles, I know, is extremely contagious. An epidemic in Minnesota some years ago was determined to have resulted when an unvaccinated kid participating in a basketball tournament was on the floor and airflow brought the virus to the upper stadium seats, where the first people to contract the illness were seated.

If the event OP was attending included people traveling from an area where there was a known outbreak of a disease for which vaccination is generally required, and those people don't vaccinate, then it would make sense not to attend. Or if those attendees were traveling by a mass transit means (plane, bus, train).

Fanning the flames of outrage probably does not help at all.

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