Mandatory Vaccinations in Maryland

[Enigma]

Can a JW donate blood? I admit I'm curious.

Anyone *can* donate but will they? No.

[Dark Hellion]

I know this is falling into the loophole zone, but can a JW receive their own blood? If you donate, and then need blood late, can you get it back? Just curious.

As for the topic on hand, I hate the generation(s) of adults that somehow believe that their children are their property to do with what they will and not little, underdeveloped PERSONS (I bold this because person-itude seems very important to this group, yet they never treat their born children as persons, just the unborn ones), who should be treated as such. It sickens me. The fucking stupid parenting that comes from it, because Ashley has to get her new outfit for school instead of protecting Ashley from the diseases that can FUCKING KILL HER! Stupid over-indulgent selfish bitches, caring more about some stupid little social conscience thing they think they can do to look smart to their friends instead of actually protecting their kid from diseases they very easily can get. Even if it caused autism, going by the hypothetical, devils advocate, totally untrue worst case scenario, if it causes autism less than the chance of your kid getting a common childhood disease (so named because they are common in childhood, wow, that was hard to figure out you dumb bitch) then it is still beneficial and worth it. Foiled by simple math.

God I hate people, I am going to go drink and play video games now.

[Enigma]

I know this is falling into the loophole zone, but can a JW receive their own blood? If you donate, and then need blood late, can you get it back? Just curious.

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No. The exception being if during surgery the blood could be cleaned by dialysis but it doesn't exactly leave the body since the dialysis can be considered an extension of the body's circulatory system whereas any blood removed from the body and stored would refused. In other words as long as the blood isn't separated from the body.

[Androsphinx]

Can someone explain the origin of the autism story? My vague understanding was that there was a mercury compound involved somewhere in the murky past, but I really don't know the details.

The statistical significance needed for a suspected correlation to be recognised is, say, 5% - in other words, that there is one chance in 20 that it is co-incidence. That means that if you run enough hypotheses through a set of data, you are bound to find something.

[Jaepheth]

As I read that, I couldn't help but begin editing it in my mind.

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Bolding mine.

Funny you should say that:

While compulsory school laws were passed, compulsory attendance was not popular. Armed troops were required to pacify the Massachusetts countryside as nearly eighty percent of the population fought the state government. As late as 1882, thirty years after the state had passed the compulsory attendance law, the militia had to march children to school. (http://anti-politics.net/school/) New York City parents rioted in 1917.

[TheMuffinKing]

Can someone explain the origin of the autism story? My vague understanding was that there was a mercury compound involved somewhere in the murky past, but I really don't know the details.

Thats the mercury from your innoculations causing your early autismization...

[That NOS Guy]

Thats the mercury from your innoculations causing your early autismization...

IIRC, that study was discredited.

[[R_H]]

Thats the mercury from your innoculations causing your early autismization...

IIRC, that study was discredited.

Pretty sure that was sarcasm.

[Vehrec]

Jehovas Witnesses (and some others) don't believe in medical treatment, as it is an affront to God. I think the real issue is with the vaccines=autism nutters.

We do take vaccines. The only issue we have of the medical field is blood, the rest we take full advantage of.

Could a blood substitute be created that would be acceptable to the JW?

[Enigma]

Jehovas Witnesses (and some others) don't believe in medical treatment, as it is an affront to God. I think the real issue is with the vaccines=autism nutters.

We do take vaccines. The only issue we have of the medical field is blood, the rest we take full advantage of.

Could a blood substitute be created that would be acceptable to the JW?

We do take advantage of alternatives to blood tranfusions like saline solutions and the type of med that triples the amount of blood production in the body. There are even surgeries that before required blood transfusion but now don't need to due to new techniques like cell salvage (salvaging spilled blood by sending it through a dialysis and returning it back to the bloodstream like an extended circulatory system).