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If I could say one thing to the entire world, it would probably be as follows: It’s the year 2015, vaccinate your kids. There’s been a large amount of research in recent years disproving one person that claims vaccines cause autism. Even if vaccines did cause autism, would you rather lose your child to an entirely preventable disease than have them be alive but “disabled” or “flawed”? Have you ever had polio? No? That’s because your parents got you vaccinated. Vaccines have helped to nearly eradicate multiple diseases that otherwise would kill millions. Would you rather indirectly kill a child that couldn’t get vaccinated due to medical issues because your kid passed on a perfectly preventable illness than have an autistic child? I didn’t think

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