Kurtzgesagt is a popular scientific channel that focuses on delivering information to the viewer in easy to understand pieces. I highly recommend watching their video which does a lot of fact checking on anti vaccines part and comparison of vaccines “effects” to their benefits.
Category: Discussion
Karma is real
The kid didn’t want to vaccinate himself and he got chickenpox
Instagram is blocking #’s
Instagram is blocking vaccinated related hashtags if they return wrong information on vaccinations. Lowering the spread of false information encouraging people to learn from trusted and well documented government sites and tests.
This honestly makes me feel conflicted because America is big on its freedom of speech even though Instagram is corporate entity that operates outside America too.
Vaccination Scratch Project
I created a pro vaccination scratch animation. its about 30 seconds long and uses 3 different citations.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/302948888/
Using sourced audio from you tube and free licensed music off the web I cobbled together a presentation of roughly 30 seconds long.
Before that I needed to set up the back grounds and the text which was the easiest part, the hardest part however was the coding of the syringe chasing after Hannah. The syringe had a strict direction that needed to follow Hannah’s movements. In order to do this I programmed a 4 directions Hannah could be facing and adjusted the syringe accordingly.
Those 4 directions were 0 degrees to 90, 90 to 180 and so on. And because the syringe had a rigid model, each direction had to be carefully crafted to match Hannah’s direction and movements.
It was a pretty gratifying experience to learn scratch while making the project.
Make sure to comment if you had any questions!
Continued update on the outbreak in New York
https://gizmodo.com/antivax-parents-sue-over-mandatory-vaccination-order-in-1834098993
A group of five unnamed mothers are suing the city of New York, trying to get it to block a mandatory measles-mumps-rubella vaccination order city officials ordered earlier this month in specific ZIP codes in Brooklyn amid a major measles outbreak.
A mandatory measles vaccination is being attempted to be blocked! I think if anything these mothers are putting everyone else at risk. There has been validated studies on vaccinations and they’ve been practiced for years where as Anti Vaxxers are determined to follow pseudo science.
Presentation on Vaccines
I’m animating my presentation for vaccinations and I decided to write a blog post about some of the sources I came upon.
One of them being a WHO article on common misconceptions of vaccines. it was surprising finding WHO writing on the misconceptions of the Anti Vax movement but it did reassure me the authorities on world health are on top of this misinformation.
If you wanted to check it out I’ll leave the link here
https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/detection/immunization_misconceptions/en/
https://nowthisnews.com/videos/news/italian-anti-vaxxer-politician-is-hospitalized-with-chickenpox
A lawmaker in Italy was hospitalized with chicken pox, he’s been pushing for non-mandatory vaccines. I’d like to think there’s a sort of karmic justice being done here. Someone who’d been opposing vaccines was diagnosed with a vaccine preventable disease, the irony is not lost.
Vaccinations give children autism.
A meme created by me using mocking sponge bob written in sarcastic text. A common point antivaxxers use is vaccinations give children autism. Their argument is they would rather their children have a increased chance of dying than have autism, but the scanning for autism in children is done at the same time vaccinations are given.
This Is Journalism? Teens Demanding Vaccinations?
A mix of support for vaccination and disagreement with it. The author recognizes the positive effect vaccinations can have against diseases but he also provides his opinion on utopian humanism.
The gang at the Chicago Tribune–do they truly think we can’t see their bias?
The headline reads, “Unvaccinated teens fact-checking their parents and trying to get shots on their own” (https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-anti-vaccine-parents-20190210-story.html). Like, how many times, when you were 14 or 15 years old, did you find yourself sitting on the porch steps and thinking, “Gee whiz, I wish I could get more vaccinations! Confound my parents! What could they be thinking of?” Hint: never.
The Trib digs up one 18-year-old who posted such a thought on Reddit–“god [sic] knows how I’m still alive”–and from it extrapolates a mass movement among teenagers who want to be vaccinated against freakin’ everything. This kid’s parents didn’t think so. The fact that he’s still alive casts doubt on the urgent necessity for beaucoup vaccines. His Reddit post did get a lot of comments, from which the Trib deduces “a growing discussion online.”
And they…
View original post 176 more words
Kris's Medicine 