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Remember the hoopla when the muslims in Nigeria set back the global eradication of Polio by refusing to vaccinate their children? As a result of religious stupidity and asinine posturing children died, suffered and the disease spread to many other countries that had almost become Polio-free.

It's one thing to laugh at uneducated and unwashed peoples who live in mud huts and fear the wrath of tribal elders. It's not so funny when it's idiots here at home.

Like who? Like Rachel Magni, "a 35-year-old stay-at-home mother in Newton, Mass." She won't vaccinate her kids because... she's afraid. But clearly she's not too afraid of what it could do to the children of the people around her. It's one thing to take a risk with your own life and your own child, it's quite another to do it to someone else.

What she's doing is lying to the state of Massachusetts by claiming an exemption from vaccinations for "religious reasons" where none exist. "I felt that the risk of the vaccine was worse than the risk of the actual disease". I wish there were a vaccination for your stupidity as well.

Honestly I have no problem at all if people don't want to protect their children from life-threatening diseases, so long as they keep the hell away from everyone else. No vaccine? Fine, then no public school for you. Homeschool your kids. Everyone will be happy.

Excepting of course your children when they do get some horrific disease and ask you "But Mom the other kids aren't getting sick - why is it just me?"

On the other hand, I hear property is pretty cheap in Nigeria...