Tetanus shots and blogging

So, as I posted not to long ago in my entry on blog fame, a reasonable amount of the traffic generated on this blog is due to the post about my tetanus shot from back in August. That post generated a fair number of comments before I stopped allowing further comments. And so while there have been lots of people reading that post, I hadn’t had any new comments, obviously. But today that changed. My most recent entry received a comment for moderation which read thus:

Dan, you put poisons into your body, you’re going to feel bad. It’s common sense. This is referring to your locked tetanus vaccination rant about being sick for 2 days after receiving the injection. You posted on it, not us. Why would you have a _public_ blog if you do not want people responding to it? I can tell that from both the locking reaction to your very own public story and then wondering why you feel like you have flu-like symptoms after you let some quack poke you with a serum that is comprised of mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde (all which are toxic); You’ve got to be a moron. Just wanted to enlighten you. The aluminum is still probably in your system too; As it tends to bioaccumulate.

Formaldehyde is also a known potent carcinogen and is quite toxic to humans. Lastly, mercury causes liver and kidney damage and neurological problems and also tends to bioaccumulate. Alzheimer’s, cancer and/or Mad Hatter Syndrome anyone?

–malign

Now I didn’t really want to allow this comment since it was posted as a comment to a completely unrelated blog post and I didn’t particularly want people to start flooding random entries on my blog with comments relating to my tetanus shot. But I also felt like I had to put it somewhere. Because it’s so… eloquent and stuff. Like, wow. I’m a moron? Because I had a tetanus shot? Fascinating.

There’s a new bar set for the level of crazy in comments to my blog, clearly.

For the record, I think that vaccinations are a good thing. Tetanus is quite dangerous and there is every reason in the world to vaccinate against it. Although it was unpleasant that I had that reaction to the shot that I did, I am certainly not unhappy that they vaccinated me. It sure beats getting lock-jaw. And yes, I’m also in favor of vaccinating children in general with things like MMR vaccines and is like. I think that parents who choose to have their children not vaccinated are irresponsible and doing a disservice to society.

On the question of why I have this blog, if not to allow for public debate… Well it’s so that I can amuse myself and my friends, keep them up to date on the goings on in my life, muse about Amber games I’m currently playing in, think about games I’d like to play, link to cool websites, rant about the state of the world and/or the country, and so on.

And I guess the topics which I’m more interested in debating are ones relating to gaming theory and roleplaying and such things. Or pros and cons of operating systems and computers and other dorky things like that. Ideological rants about why I’m an idiot because I allowed myself to be vaccinated… really not so much something I was counting on cropping up.