India Knight in her criticism piece of parents who refuse to vaccinate, or more importanty, give their baby the MMR vaccine, titled it: ”Don’t mess with measles“, but it might have been more aptly called, ”Don’t mess with India Knight”!

For the first time since the vaccine was introduced, measles are on the rise in industrialized nations due to parent’s arrogance and denial of scientific fact. They think they are smarter than the truth and are somehow revealing a great medical conspiracy in which their children are the only ones who will be safe. (By the way, let me know when green aliens fall from the sky to probe their asses too.)

The measles are on the rise in industrialized nations, due to the arrogance and ignorance of parents who think their smarter than the truth. To India I say, “Right on!”

Meanwhile, more than 500m doses of MMR vaccine have been used worldwide. The World Health Organisation says the vaccine has an outstanding safety record. A major review published last year of 31 studies of MMR concluded that there were no credible grounds for questioning the jab’s safety. There exists no public data on the effectiveness of the single vaccine.

And yet here we are in the middle of a measles outbreak, with figures for the disease the highest for two decades. There have also been a significant number of fatalities in people who have developed measles, especially in America, and especially among the 18-22 age group.

In an outbreak of measles in Japan that was associated with the single vaccine — which some people apparently think preferable to giving measles, mumps and rubella all in one go but leaves children dangerously exposed in the time between jabs — there were 20 deaths.

And worldwide, it appears that more children have side-effects following the single vaccine. I could go on and on — and tell you, for instance, that all paediatricians at the Portland hospital in London have given their children the combined vaccine — but I think you probably get my drift.

And if you have the balls to read the rest…(hey, I didn’t write the article!)

If stupid, selfish, irresponsible parents refuse to vaccinate their children — and in my corner of north London, not being vaccinated is almost the norm rather than the exception — and those children come into contact with babies or young children who aren’t yet old or well enough to have had their MMR, they are spreading disease and illness, with the complicit blessing of their parents.

If I were a politician, instead of mimsying about trying to score points and banging on pathetically about Leo Blair, I would come down on these parents like a ton of bricks. They base their lemming-like decisions on nursery-gate gossip and half-understood hearsay, rather than on a single iota of hard evidence. And, worse than that, they show blithe disregard for any children other than their own.

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