Surprise surprise, her doctorate is in psychology. She works with special ed kids and I’m guessing she’s either decided or parents are self-reporting that they’re “vaccine injured.” 🙄 What an asshole.
Nobody would give two shits if that was the problem. The problem is that their behavior endangers the safety of others and the integrity of society.
I don’t just mean people who cannot be vaccinated. Without vaccines, lockdowns like the ones during the covid pandemic would be in effect pretty much all the time. We have functioning vaccines against diseases that are much worse than covid. We got lucky in 2020.
People like to bitch and moan about the inconveniences endured during covid and would use terms like “doom sayers” to insult people who promoted lockdowns and vaccines. Under the guise of “it wasn’t that bad”.
Yeah, no shit Sherlock. Without lockdowns and vaccines it would’ve been ten times worse. We actually got relatively scot-free. Huge swaths of the developing world endured millions of deaths.
Anyone with more than two brain cells to run together, who learns about the “Spanish Flu” of 1918-1920, should immediately say “I’m getting vaccinated, I’m wearing a mask and I’m self isolating”. 50 million people died. 50 million! We got lucky with COVID because so many people unselfishly did those things.
Society before vaccines didn’t have lockdowns all the time, the mortality was higher because you died of disease now almost forgotten. During epidemics a lot of things still had to get done, the corpses didn’t remove themselves, people still needed food, water and their shit carried off.
I’m not sure many people against vaccines these days have met anyone who got the diseases everyone is vaccinated for nowadays. Polio as a child? You survived? Great, you’ll have a limp and bad joints your whole life…
It did indeed have lockdowns! Public Health quarantines have a history that is thousands of years old. Polio would close public pools regularly when my parents were children.
Closing a pool and the 2020 insanity in some countries where you weren’t even allowed to walk your dog without self-certifying your outing as legal under the pseudo-curfew are very different, which is more what I meant by lockdowns since that’s what the contemporary meaning seems to be.
Florence has old as balls “wine holes”, where they serve wine through specially designed holes to limit the risk of spreading diseases.
Governments fought diseases back then just as hard or even harder than now.
They were originally meant to avoid taxes on storefronts but later repurposed, do you have any evidence it was government policy?
Quarantines in case of known infections are very different from shutting down arbitrary sectors of an economy because politicians said so, they don’t even compare to lockdowns in scope.
Did you even read some of the quarantines? There are several instances of them quarantining entire countries, no boats in or out. There’s instances of towns being isolated, etc.
Lastly, your first sentence is absolutely baffling. We KNEW COVID was everywhere, wtf are you even talking about? At its height, the US alone was having around 200,000+ confirmed cases a day. You are vastly underplaying how close our medical system came to collapsing in huge swathes of the country. There’s absolutely a reason why there’s a global shortage of doctors and nurses right now, the burnout during the pandemic was absolutely unreal for medical workers.
The kneejerk complete shutdown at the beginning was a tad overkill in some places, but that was because of so many unknown variables. The initial strains were absolutely more deadly, so why risk it? However, I don’t remember anywhere in the US going to extremes of making it so you couldn’t even walk outside. Now, places like China absolutely went way overkill with literally forcibly boarding people into buildings.
While the global scale of the covid lockdown was indeed unprecedented, quarantining and curfews were indeed used during the Spanish flu, bubonic plague and other widespread diseases. Back then, that was sufficient because population density was lower and the world was much less connected in general. Nobody went on a 2-week holiday trip to Bali during the bubonic plague, or huddled up in huge skyscraper office buildings for work, so the spreading of the disease was already slower.
Some years before covid (I think it was in 2012 or 2013), we got dangerously close to an ebola pandemic. That would have been fun, I imagine, I love bleeding out of all orifices and dying, my favorite past-time.
Her (almost certainly) describing a sibling with autism as being “vaccine-injured” is just so insulting.
Jenny McCarthy should be imprisoned for spreading this.
“My parents gambled with my health and that’s ok!”
And “my parents’ intellectual weakness put many others with immunological weaknesses at grave risk!”
Weren’t some states instituting book bans for subjects considered “harmful”? This seems like a prime opportunity to twist some poorly written state laws and do some actual good with them.
I’m not sure this book has actually been published in physical media, but I agree.
No I am wrong, you can buy it on Amazon.
Wait for the sequel:
“I live in an iron lung and that’s ok!”
And the followup, “I’m blind because measles, and that’s ok!”
The fact they call vaccination an “important decision” as if it’s choosing chemo or so is just so stupid.
It’s an important decision in that it’s important to decide to not put your child at risk for polio.
Shannon Kroner is a PSYCHOLOGIST. She wrote a book about vaccines, as a psychologist.
see? she’s a scientist, therefore she knows what she’s talking about!
you aren’t going to question your own precious science, are you, liberal? didn’t you know all scientists study the same thing?
How does being a psychologist constitute a reasonable qualification to have any weight on the matter? Vaccinations belong to the field of pharmacology, on which psychologists have no training whatsoever (possibly aside from psychiatric drugs) and if they do, they’re most likely a psychiatrist, in which case they’re doctor first and psychologist second.
The author has no qualifications whatsoever to talk about vaccines, aside from her doctoral dissertation, which I would consider questionable at best.
She’s a psychologist who works primarily with special education/special needs kids, and believes that a lot of developmental disabilities are the result of vaccinations.
Here’s the program she got her PsyD from.
She’s a psychologist, not a psychiatrist, so she has no training in pharmacology. Requirements for her program say nothing about organic chemistry.
I wonder if her program would be happy about her using her degree to make medical claims, considering it isn’t a medical degree.
WTF is “Gold Moms Choice Award”? The newest warning label?
If the Americans are so keen about banning books, they should really start with this one. Ever thought about “What if books could kill?” - This one can.
If memory serves correctly The Daily Wire invented their own awards just to say their journalism is “Award Winning”
I’ve met this kind of awards somewhere. One supermarket chain boasted that one of their businesses won the “Supermarket of the Year” award. And the next year it was again that one of their locations won that price. So I dug a bit deeper and learned that they own the local version of “Supermarket of the Year” award, and only markets of their own chain “participate”.
I recently went on a drive from Indiana to Minnesota and back, doing a different route each time. Almost every hospital we passed said it was one of the 100 best hospitals according to (I think) U.S. News and World Report.
What are the chances?
It sounds like a bit of an award scam actually - there’s a disappointed recipient taking about it here.
I don’t think there’s a lot of legal stuff around awards - you can pretty much just make one up and give it to things.
Winners who pay $500 may use the Mom’s Choice Awards seal “for marketing and promotional purposes” BUT must pay the $1500 fee to actually put the seal on the books. Unless you purchase the stick on seals, 100 for $50.00.
Yeah, that’s definitely a scam.
Gold Moms
Imagining a big pot of molten gold, and a middle aged woman in one of those perfect blonde helmet hair cuts slowly dipping her elderly mother into it, while laughing and screaming about how “I’m going to post you to instagram! I’m going to treasure you forever!”
I imagined that as a Gary Larson cartoon for some reason.
“My parents are complete idiots and that’s not OK”
I realize this is sort of an aside, but the title reminds me of the “children’s” book that Colbert put out back when he was doing the Colbert Report.
It’s about the adventures of a pole and its many uses. Including by strippers. It’s actually surprisingly wholesome.
- Children’s book
- Stripper pole
- Wholesome
Don’t have children. I don’t even wtf.
You would understand if you read it.
Here’s betting on this not getting a sequel.
I envy your naive optimism
That or the kid won’t be around long enough (I know this is an anti-vax fantasy)
The book ends with the kid dying from polio
Dropping this book off at the hospital measles’s ward.
Written by Dr. Polio N. Smolpox
Yea, imagine if the doctor who wrote that bullshit report was being controlled by a polio infection, or was just a conglomeration of diseased cells.
