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If using the law to corral antivaxxers doesn’t work at first, try, try again. At least, that seems to be the lesson learned by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. On Tuesday, he declared a state of emergency and mandated residents of the Williamsburg neighborhood, where an outbreak of measles has been raging since last fall, get vaccinated for the viral disease. Those who choose not to will risk the penalty of a $1,000 fine.
https://gizmodo.com/new-york-city-orders-williamsburg-residents-to-get-vacc-1833917175
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New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @01:40PM (6 children)
The crazy thing about anti-vaxx is that the guy who started it all in 1998, Andrew Wakefield, is a total sociopath who did it because he wanted to get rich. He was paid nearly £400,000 by a law firm that was trying to sue a vaccine manufacturer [briandeer.com] and he was trying to patent his own alternate vaccine [briandeer.com] and he hoped to make over $40M per year selling fake diagnostic kits [washingtonpost.com] advertised to detect if someone's autism was 'caused' by the MMR vaccine.
Or maybe that's the most prosaic thing ever - con artist preys on people's fears to get rich and wrecks their lives in the process.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @01:54PM (3 children)
I've never met anyone "anti-vaxx" who gave a shit about Andrew Wakefield. Sounds like a strawman.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @02:49PM (2 children)
Yeah, that's the problem. If you suckers knew the origin of the scam, you might stop being suckers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @02:54PM (1 child)
How about discussing actual numbers instead of strawmen:
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=31033&page=1&cid=827912#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:15PM
Projection is the first refuge of the conspiracy nut.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:21PM (1 child)
Setting aside for a moment all the problems with anti-vaxx to begin with, what the hell would be the point of this, if you can't do anything to fix it anyway? Sue somebody?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:40PM
Exactly. That was his plan - anyone can use his kit for "free" but he gets a cut of any settlements/awards due to litigation because he provides and 'certifies' the results.