"In comparison, the US has epidemics of obesity, childhood diabetes, and autism."
"These three are the elephants in the room, ..."
these days"three epidemics" are not "epidemics" and have nothing to do with the anti vaxxers.
Thanks for stating that my autism is an epidemic to be compared with many selfishly and stupidly caused issues of over-indulgence. Not to mention, something to be cured. This isn't an epidemic. It's like that car effect where after you see a particular (maybe unique) car, catches your attention, you notice many more once you are aware of them, and find out they are out and about and more common than you think. First, the rise in autism is being blurred by high and low functioning being mixed together, and second, the criteria to diagnose and label has changed, which has included way more in the discovery ability, and more in smashing many different types together, that there used to be "Autism" and "Asperger's Syndrome" now smashed together and labeled outright as "Autism."
Instantly that almost more than double the amount of people under it, and from my perspective, by declaring it a disease, you act very genocidal in nature as it's many times a trait to be removed from society. I'm thinking this is more of a genetic alteration that has been an evolutionary change unfolding in front of our eyes, and some evolutionary changes have caused certain sections of species and development to die out, or to thrive. It's possible it's one of the next evolutionary changes in humanity going on, and sometimes the genetics don't match up. Like how humans evolved from previous genus of Piltdown Man, Java Man, Homopithecus, or Homoerectus. It's likely, as our physical structure has mostly stopped evolving, the next thing is in intellectualism.
And frankly, it's insulting to call what makes me "Me" a disease and something that has to be eradicated. Why not the other way around? I'm pretty sure my IQ is likely larger than a lot of voting citizens, yet somehow, stupidity is rewarded, nay exalted and looked on as a point of pride. But this isn't a disease, when a "Disease" usually has more adverse affects than anything positive to benefit from. My higher IQ isn't a downside, it let's me see the bullshit in this debate, and even more, bullshit in trying to eradicate what is essentially, how i see is a more evolutionary trait unfolding in real time. Pretty sure cavemen must've looked down on their smarter brethren, when the smarter brethren could plan for food issues like winter and stock up, rather than risk dying in elements to hunt when gatherers/farmers had the foresight to gather more than needed, in advance, and find a way to store it to avoid risking elements and death during periods of uncertainty and low yield food.
STOP calling me a problem to be dealt with! You chuckle heads don't realize have the time it's you idiots, that are stubborn as hell, refuse to admit being just that, stupid. Don't drag me down to your level with mud flinging. Next person to tell me I need to be cured is getting their job replaced with a small shell script...