I'm not sure if this article is real or just stupid.

"jeffywk" (jeffywk)
02/09/2015 at 10:58 • Filed to: brakes

Saw it on my Facebook feed. I couldn't tell if it was an 'Onion" type of site or what. Whatever it is, it's laughable. EDIT: yeah its satire. I totally believe the person who posted it on my Facebook is stupid enough to believe it though. ;)

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DISCUSSION (32)

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:00

Yes, it is satire.

BATC42 > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:01

Yes, it's like the Onion. I believe they are mmocking the anti-vaccines.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:01

A friend of mine posted it, its pretty funny. It's supposed to be poking fun at ant-vacciners.

Wacko > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:01

Brakes are so over rated

jeffywk > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
02/09/2015 at 11:02

haha, yeah I just saw the link to the original article. But I totally believe there are people out there stupid enough to believe this. That's why I believed it at first! We live in a stupid world.

McMike > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:02

There are some tags on the bottom of the article.. "Satire" and "funny" are two of them.

jeffywk > Snuze: Needs another Swede
02/09/2015 at 11:03

Oh god, we can't escape that argument can we? haha

jeffywk > McMike
02/09/2015 at 11:03

yup yup

CB > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:03

It's satire of anti-vaccination. I thought it was pretty amusing.

Moenica > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:04

That is what happens when you read too much Jalopnik, it is impossible to differentiate reality from satire in the car world.

This article is satire making fun of the anti-vaccine movement.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:05

No.

Because there is no 'argument.' Vaccines work. End. Of. Argument.

Tapas > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:08

Hahaha this is hilarious :D

I feel like the author and I won't get along, since I want the 13k carbon ceramic brake option on the F-Type coupe :D

jeffywk > Tapas
02/09/2015 at 11:09

CARBON CERAMICS! You murderer!

deekster_caddy > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:10

It's not an onion article, but it's sarcasm designed to make fun of antivaxxers. Deciding not to vaccinate against what every doctor tells you is sort of like deciding to have your brakes removed no matter what every mechanic tells you...

Tapas > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:17

Hey, there's nothing wrong with wanting to stop quickly! Okay!!

Especially when everyone's use engine braking to stop in the next mile or blow their engines out, once they see a need to pull over :D

jeffywk > Tapas
02/09/2015 at 11:18

Won't somebody think of the children!? Oh... wait that's exactly what we're doing.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:22

This is the original article .

Shared to BoingBoing by Cory Doctorow

BigBlock440 > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
02/09/2015 at 11:24

Ok, but if they work, than why is everyone getting upset about people not vaccinating? Shouldn't the only people who get sick the ones who don't? Also, what kind of third world shithole do we live in that hospitals routinely expose infants to blood-borne pathogens that they need to vaccinate every newborn when they're not even a day old? I'm confused by this new partisan issue and want to know what side I should be on.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Wacko
02/09/2015 at 11:28

#loudpedal4lyfe

jariten1781 > BigBlock440
02/09/2015 at 11:33

They're not necessarily 100% effective in 100% of the people. Some folks can't have them due to other underlying immune or other issues. Vaccines end goal is for 'herd immunity' meaning that enough people are immune so that the disease itself cannot find viable hosts and it dies off or becomes sufficiently rare that people susceptible to it are extremely unlikely to run into it. That end state also protects those for whom the vaccine is less effective and those who cannot have the vaccine for legitimate reasons since the disease was either eradicated, contained, or weakened. Everyone who can get vaccinated must get vaccinated for this to be the most effective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immu…

yamahog > BigBlock440
02/09/2015 at 11:33

No, the issue is that the immuno compromised (like cancer patients) and those too young to be vaccinated (you don't get all your shots on day one) rely on herd immunity (everyone else being vaccinated) to eradicate contagious disease. Without enough people getting vaccinated, preventable diseases like the measles are now seriously sickening and killing people with compromised immune systems.

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 11:33

so evidentally a rotor is not considered part of the brakes

I understand its sarcasm. but since when is a rotor not part of the brakes? a brake is just the pads and calipers then?

Cajun Ginger > BigBlock440
02/09/2015 at 11:37

there's this thing called herd immunity. It protects the small amount of people who's vaccines don't take, who's vaccines wear off or people like me who can't be vaccinated for a medical reason. If vaccination levels fall below a certain point herd immunity is no longer effective.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > BigBlock440
02/09/2015 at 11:39

You should be emphatically in favor of vaccination.

http://io9.com/how-anti-vaxxe…

http://io9.com/why-neglected-…

There should only be 2 cases for not vaccinating:

Age, newborns cannot be vaccinated as their immune systems are not fully developed.

Illness, people who already have compromised immune systems (AIDS/Cancer) also cannot be vaccinated.

EVERYONE else who does not fall into those two categories should be required to be vaccinated to participate in modern society.

Hey, y'all, watch this! > BigBlock440
02/09/2015 at 11:39

Herd immunity. Not everyone can get vaccinated; for example, the immune-compromised or infants to young to vaccinate. (They don't do it at a day-old, and it's not out of concern about blood-bourne pathogens. Most of those are much less infectious than, say, measles.)

If the vaccination rate drops below about 90%, you have diseases like measles, which can be deadly and was pretty much eradicated in the US 15 years ago, making a comeback because idiots would rather have their child dead or maimed from a preventable disease than autistic. Well, guess what? My mom caught rubella when she was expecting my sister because this was before adult MMR boosters were a thing, and my sister is way worse off than if she were autistic. And I have friends with autistic kids, and not a single damn one of them would rather their kids be dead.

Incidentally, the vaccines causing autism thing has been thoroughly fucking debunked.

Cajun Ginger > BigBlock440
02/09/2015 at 11:42

oh yeah and newborns don't get vaccinated. Children have to be a certain age to receive certain vaccines. Herd immunity also protects them until they're old enough.

crowmolly > BigBlock440
02/09/2015 at 11:47

Some people are unable to get a particular vaccine due to allergies or have a compromised immune system (like chemo patients). Infants can't be given everything at birth and sometimes are forced to do things like fly in planes or go to the store. As an example, there's a neighborhood kid near me that can't get one of the vaccines because he's deathly allergic to egg products and there's egg in the one he had to get.

These people rely on herd immunity.

This is not even touching on eradicating a disease due to declining incidence rates.

From my perspective it's the pinnacle of arrogance for a non-student of medicine (western or otherwise) to claim they know what's best. Parents do not always know what's best for their kids. People don't like to hear that but it's true. At some point you have to "take somebody's word for it", especially if said person has devoted their entire life to studying the exact topic in question.

BigBlock440 > Cajun Ginger
02/09/2015 at 11:54

HepB vaccine is administered 12 hours after birth, I'm not sure if there are others. Why? It makes no sense, IMO.

Cajun Ginger > BigBlock440
02/09/2015 at 12:03

here is a vaccine schedule from the CDC.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/sched…

Most vaccines are not administered at birth. So all babies are vulnerable to preventable diseases if people don't get their kids vaccinated.

Plus while I was pregnant my babies and I were vulnerable because I can't be vaccinated against MMR. Measles or Rubella could have been fatal to them.

jeffywk > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
02/09/2015 at 18:34

Yeah I caught that to. It made just enough sense for most people to go along with it though.

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > jeffywk
02/09/2015 at 21:30

sounds like your article was paraphrased by Torchinsky http://jalopnik.com/the-best-mocke…

jeffywk > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
02/10/2015 at 13:09

I know :'( I wanted a hat tip. oh well