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It's not often that a horrible opinion can lead to a budding public health crisis, but this one has. If there wasn't a budding public health crisis, I'd agree with you.

The flip side of this is that it's terrible PR for YouTube if they _do_ let it continue, at which point it turns into a "YouTube is supporting anti-vaxxers during a budding health crisis" headline.

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If your kids are upto date then there will be no health crisis. The concern is everyone will start following this advice and then everyone will get sick. In the worst case evolution will wipe out this population.

Even if you or your children are vaccinated you still benefit from herd immunity. Not all vaccines are effective in everyone.

In turn, anti-vaxxers are killing people whose immune system is compromised by a variety of circumstances (cancer treatment, vaccine allergies, diseases etc). It also doesn't stop the fact that viruses are not some static class. They can mutate, which makes this line of thinking especially dangerous if they start mutating to get around the original vaccine.

This is before we even talk about vaccine efficiency. In the worst case scenario, evolution means we start wiping out vast amounts of the human population because of a growth in previously preventable diseases.

I would expect videos that specifically lie and say that cigarettes aren't bad for you to be demonetized.

There are many people who cannot receive vaccinations because they are immunocompromised. Herd immunity protects them. Anti-vaxxers threaten them. The concern is not merely that people start becoming anti-vax

The herd community is making it difficult for those who cannot receive vaccinations from attending places even schools in some area by enforcing vaccinations.

They end up doing more harm.

Children who can't be vaccinated for legitimate health reasons can get exemptions.

It doesn't work that way. No vaccine is 100% effective, and not every child is medically eligible to be vaccinated. Getting these diseases out of general circulation is important.

just FYI kids can't get the MMR vaccine until they're 12 months, and plenty of folks who are immunocompromised for any one of a number of reasons can't get the vaccine at all, but they can all get measles.

In fact measles is probably not going to be much more than a painful few days for most school-age kids but infants and folks who are immunocompromised can die from it, so if anything your "dummies deserve to die" stance is probably going to wipe out the wrong population.

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