If you persuade someone that it is safe to drive home drunk, and they crash and kill innocent people, you condone those deaths.
If you persuade someone that it is safe to dump asbestos illegally and hundreds of people die of mesothelioma over the next two decades, you condone those deaths.
And if you persuade people to avoid vaccination, resulting in the death of those people or of others who can't be vaccinated, you condone those deaths.
The outbreak in Samoa is a classic study of what happens when ignorance triumphs over science. Dangerous lunatics like Menta create their straw man arguments and pervert science to create the impression that vaccination is dangerous, when in fact the reverse is overwhelmingly true: vaccination is modern medicine's greatest achievement and if we could devise a vaccination against idiocy the antivaxxer argument would be wiped out in a generation.
