One parenting fail to rule them all...

[trashcanman]

Does the term biological warfare mean anything to you? Is is something you would equate with a caring parent? Anyways, there is a segment of the population who thinks that vaccines are manufactured by the government to control our minds or some shit and they want their children to get antibodies the old-fashioned way. They want those antibodies in their kids so bad, they used Facebook to arrange a mail-order service for germs to infect their children with.

gammasquad.uproxx.com/2011/11/aint-no-party-like-a-chicken-pox-party-cause-a-chicken-pox-party-kills-kids

I'm aware of the old wive's tale that if you don't get chicken pox as a kid you'll die of it when you're older or something, but this shit is just so braindead it ticks every "punch these people in the face" box I can think of. Usually South Park catches wind of these sorts of things and mocks them, but this time around, they've already covered the unbelievable stupidity of deliberately infecting your children with this disease. In the South Park episode, the kids return the favor by having a hooker with herpes sores all over her mouth use their parents' toothbrushes. Can the real life victims do any less?

[The Curmudgeon]

This has to be from the Simpson's, or something.. right? I mean, this is something that Milhouse's mother has signed up for. It can't.. it can't be real.

Fuck, it's real. Why you would purposely infect your kid with something that'll make them ill, when you can let them have the drug that stops them from getting it.. just boggles the mind. It's thankfully something I've read about but never actually seen in person. At our school lining up for the many jags we had to get in our lifetime was just part of the routine. I'd never heard of some maniac saying, "I don't want them to get the jag. I want them to get the disease. It's GOOD for them!"

And I had chicken pox a few years ago and it RULED. Yeah I was covered in spots and looked like something the Ninja Turtles would fight, but I only felt sick once, and I got paid for being off work. I milked THAT shit for 6 weeks. Best illness ever.

[trashcanman]

Yeah, see, I've been hearing about how horrible it is that I never got chicken pox because if you get it when you are older it is this horrible, bubonic plague-esque disease that will destroy your life. In fact, my wife brought it up when I showed her this story. We actually have religious families over here who do not believe in doctors or medicine. Only the healing power of Jayzus! My mother works for Child Protective Services and has to deal with these imbeciles who have children on their deathbeds with easily curable illnesses that simply refuse to allow a doctor to see them until she brings the cops and fucking TAKES the kids out of the home by force.