The CDC suggests 12 vaccinations for infants up to 4 months old, or 3 per month for the first 4 months of life. The average 4 month old infant is 15 pounds, 24 inches.
Stop it with the collective blame. It denies individual responsibility and justifies total destruction and alteration of society to fix ever more niche issues.
I thought I read that the anti-vaccination phenomenon was created by Russian propagandists.
How many of these so-called anti vaxxers are there? They talk like there are hundreds of thousands, but do they know? Any reliable estimates?
Why no mention of the totally exposed third worlders coming in her by the thousands every week? Not only are they vulnerable to disease, but many times they bring in diseases that have long been eliminated here in the lower 48 on top of diseases most of us have never even heard of.
So.....presumably you believe the vaccines are safe and they work. So you presumably have had them. And thus you are presumably immune to all of these horrible things.
If I disagree and do not get the vaccine and get sick and die as a result, it’s no skin off of your nose. If you are as you claim immune, then what are you afraid of?
Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.
I’m not even anti-vaccinations, but this article is a pathetic, childish, illogical, mess. If these supposed pro-vaccination people continue this kind of infantile garbage, they’ll push many to the other side.
One good reason to get vaccinated is because a lot of the bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics. Oldsters should get Prevnar13 plus Pneumovax23 which prevent bacterial pneumonia.
My daughter hasn’t gotten her kids all their vaccinations yet. She does believe in it but not at the pace that CDC recommends.
After my 26 years in the military I refuse to get any more shots unless absolutely necessary. I’ve had one since I retired and that was for pain.
Use your guns, via your police forces, to come and force me to vaccinate. Don’t consider my clear God given right to decide whether to allow bizarre chemical blends to be shot right past my skin and other bodily defensive barriers.
Government is force. It uses armed men to compel others to
do its bidding. Using this force for unworthy cases is evil.
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a handy servant and a dangerous master.”
—George Washington
Can you imagine a two and one half pound preemie hospitalized for months trying to grow, mature.....and being subjected to multiple vaccines ?
I can, and her parents were told she could not leave the hospital unless they found a pediatrician who would sign off NOT giving her multiple vaccinations before she left the hospital and until she matured more...
And they did!.......and she thrived....
....the good doctor spaced her vaccines reasonably.......she thrived
I have mixed feelings about government mandated vaccinations.
On the one hand, I am old enough to remember polio (I had an older cousin that spent time in an iron lung) and I still have a smallpox vaccination scar on my arm. I got to personally experience mumps, measles and chickenpox when I was a kid. Back when I was a kid in the early 1960s, whenever the oldest child in a family started first grade, all of the kids in the family (and any adults that had somehow missed them) would quickly experience the entire range of childhood illnesses, including mumps, measles and chickenpox. By the time I had kids, we signed them up for every vaccination that was available.
On the other hand, we chose to sign up our kids for vaccinations. I understand the herd immunity theory, but if I choose to have my kids vaccinated and you choose not to, then my kids are not at any higher risk. If we are making a concerted effort at global eradication of a virus like we did with smallpox and hopefully will soon do so with polio then I can understand why it might be necessary to require vaccinations.
I got all my vaccines as a child. The sugar cube polio, the smallpox scar, and the other ones. NOt very many.
But now, children are required to have dozens, and some pediatricians will dismiss you from their practices if you don’t get all of them. There are rumors going around the antivax movement that the docs are paid a bonus for a certain percentage of their patients being fully vaccinated. I don’t know if that’s true or not. I’m just telling you what’s out there. The guardisil vaccine is pushed on younger and younger kids (to prevent HPV) and there are documented fatalities associated with that vaccine.
This paper quotes a study saying vaccines don’t cause autism. I personally know a health care professional who took his son in for vaccines and he seized on the way home and went straight to the emergency room and was autistic thereafter.
As parents and grandparents we are responsible for what goes into the bodies of the kids we are caring for. We all know that many times we aren’t told the truth by government officials. The healthcare industry assures us that testing is done, but on who? What were the results? Vaccine makers cannot be sued for damages - is that ever mentioned? The government has a mechanism by which injured patients are compensated. All of this makes us suspicious. If we ask too many questions we are ridiculed.
We talked our youngest daughter into slow-walking her baby’s vaccines and her pediatrician agreed to do that. He’s in daycare part time so ... he has to have them.
One of our children dismisses this whole idea as groundless. Another is in the opposite corner. And then there’s the youngest, with the baby, who will proceed with caution. As we all should.
I am not an anti-vaxxer, per se (I was given a LOT of vaccines in the course of many Army deployments), but I am totally against the flood of cocktail vaccinations that are routinely given to infants. One of my very best friends is an MD with a PhD in biomedical research. He has three children and all three are on the Asperger’s spectrum to some degree, with his youngest being the worst. He states unequivocally that he and his wife adhered to CDC guidelines for all three children, did not believe in a correlation between vaccines and autism/Asperger’s at the time, but cannot deny that his childrens’ development was normal until shortly after their last round of vaccinations.
“All complicit”
You have no right to say that.
Oh yes. You can believe the efficacy and safety of vaxes. After all the companies that tell us this also sold Heroin as a cure for morphine addiction. You can trust Big Pharma! /s
How George Washington Used Vaccines to Help Win the Revolutionary War
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/09/how_vaccination_helped_win_the_revolutionary_war.html
“.....AN OFT-FORGOTTEN fact: during the Revolutionary War, American forces invaded Canada. Their aims were to drive British troops from Quebec and even convince Quebec’s citizens to bring their province into the American colonies. The effort, however, met with miserable disaster, which is perhaps why it doesn’t cling to public remembrance. The chief reason for the defeat? Smallpox.
“Approximately ten thousand American troops marched on Canada in fall of 1775, and at one point, nearly three thousand of them were sick. Brutally handicapped, the invasion never stood a chance. Officers fell victim, too. Major General John Thomas died of smallpox during the retreat the following spring.
“By spring [of 1776] the condition of the American soldiers in Canada had deteriorated severely due to continuous outbreaks of smallpox... Approximately half of the soldiers were ill. The majority of the new recruits were not immune to the disease, and reinforcements sent to Canada sickened quickly.” Becker recounted. “Contemporary evidence is overwhelming: smallpox destroyed the Northern Army and all hope of persuading the Canadians to join the Revolution.”
“Our misfortunes in Canada are enough to melt a heart of stone,” John Adams wrote in June 1776. “The small-pox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians, and Indians together.”
FULLY AWARE of the disaster in the north, George Washington realized that merely evading smallpox would no longer suffice; he wanted to prevent it altogether. Inoculation was already available, although the procedure — called variolation — was not without risks. The vaccines we’re accustomed to today were not invented yet, so doctors would simply make a small incision in the patient’s arm then introduce pus from the pustules of an infected victim into the wound. Variolation often resulted in a minor smallpox infection with a speedier recovery and vastly lower fatality rates, around two percent. Survivors were granted lifelong immunity.
At first, Washington simply required new recruits to be inoculated. Then, in February 1777, he bit the bullet entirely.
“Finding the smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running thro’ the whole of our Army, I have determined that the Troops shall be inoculated. This Expedient may be attended with some inconveniences and some disadvantages, but yet I trust, in its consequences will have the most happy effects.”
This was a bold move. At the time, variolation was technically outlawed by the Continental Congress, so Washington was openly flouting the law. Whole divisions were inoculated and quarantined en masse, a process that would continue for months. Strict secrecy was maintained to prevent the British from uncovering the program, lest they launch an attack upon the recovering troops. By year’s end, 40,000 soldiers were immunized.
The results were stunning. The smallpox infection rate in the Continental Army rapidly fell from 17 percent to one percent, prompting the Continental Congress to legalize variolation across the states.
With the threat of smallpox vanquished, George Washington and the Continental Army were able to entirely focus on the real enemy: the British. As Becker summed up:
“Due in large part to [Washington’s] perseverance and dedication to controlling smallpox, the Continental Army was able to survive and develop into an effective and reliable fighting force, unhampered by recurring epidemics of that disease.”
Corruption in the medical industry is far worse than parents trying to protect their children from harm.
“Science” has devolved into grant-seeking politically correct whoring—and then the scientists are surprised when nobody trusts them.
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