Two sentences that terrify as the father of a 3-month-old who's still too young to be vaccinated against measles: 

"1,277 measles cases have been confirmed as of July 5 in the United States. This is the highest level of cases we’ve seen in 33 years."

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If only we knew how to prevent these things.

Moderate-to-severe symptoms.


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The way that all the pediatricians tiptoe around vaccines with us because they're afraid of offending us if we're anti-vax is so disturbing. When I'm like "nah I'm a father who believes in modern medical science" they are relieved and say things like "you have no idea what it's like these days." 

Scary shit.

So glad my kids are older, gotta be crazy tough with young ones these days.