# Anti-vaxxers are ignorant scumbags that kill children **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-vaxxers-are-ignorant-scumbags-that-kill-children/764626 "2016-09-01T01:59:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1298
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-vaxxers-are-ignorant-scumbags-that-kill-children/764626/1298 "2025-02-15T03:58:53Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I’ve seen a Trumpite claim that the measles outbreak is due to migrants. No evidence supplied or needed. Hell, here’s a post I made 12 YEARS ago about a US measles outbreak, i.e. pre-Trump, responding to a poster using that same old “dirty immigrant” racist schtick. People can suck sometimes. Or a lot of the time, really. > [@Massive measles outbreak - thank you, Andrew Fucking Wakefield](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-measles-outbreak-thank-you-andrew-fucking-wakefield/656119/686): > > Bullshit. Why don’t they “have access”? Because they’re from Mexico? You think they don’t have vaccinations in Mexico? Why not? Mexico, unlike the US and like much of the rest of the developed world, has a fucking public [universal health system](http://open.salon.com/blog/loveinmexico/2011/02/14/a_healthy_body_politic_vaccines_in_mexico). Vaccinations are free and widely available to the public. And they’re pretty good about making sure kids get them. Vaccination rates for [pertussis](http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.IMM.IDPT/countries) and [measles](http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.IMM.MEAS/countries) is higher in Mexico than the US. “Never had access”? What the fuck does that mean? Not only… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-vaxxers-are-ignorant-scumbags-that-kill-children/764626)._