Posted on 08/14/2015 8:45:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If people were cattle, and did not have the ability to research and make informed decisions about their children, then I could see this argument. Additionally, if there were no God, and we were evolved from primordial slime, I may be able to see this argument (although I could argue the survival of the fittest).
No one died in the Disney measles outbreak.
Sure I agree that parents should make educated decisions with regard to their own kids, even if they disagree with my own educated decisions with regard to my own kid.
In this case, the “education” on which many parents relied to make their “informed decision” was a study linking vaccines to autism that was trumpeted by a celebrity. That study was shown to be a complete falsehood but the parents didn’t receive that piece of “education” so they’re making their decisions based on bad information - decisions which could very well inflict SERIOUS diseases on their own kids!
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4546421/rep-bill-posey-calling-investigation-cdcs-mmr-reasearch-fraud
As it turns out, the study that exonerated the mmr may have itself been fraudulent.
Now the CDC is offering to investigate itself on the matter. Just like the IRS and Lois Lerner.
I felt the same way until I began reading about the fact that there is a small percentage of those for whom the vaccination does not “take”. There is evidence that at least whooping cough and scarlet fever can be passed on by “carriers” of the illnesses who never actually get the illness themselves.
I did no realize that.
No vaccinations, no public school admission.
Heck, I got a lot of my vaccinations AT school!
Many millions did not. Google the Black Plague.
My information is incorrect because you don’t know anyone who’s decided to forgo vaccinations due to a celebrity?
There are 300,000,000 or so people in the U.S. I imagine the number of them you know is a reasonably small percentage.
Just because you don’t know anyone who didn’t do so doesn’t mean no one did so. Yeesh.
What religious grounds are there to not be vaccinated? That seems like a manufactured reason. Isn’t it really just the fear of negative health reactions to the vaccine?
I guess there are those whose religious beliefs do not allow any treatment by doctors at all. I mean other than that narrow view, what religious reason could anyone have against a simple vaccination?
I thank God for vaccinations. We live in a healthier world because of them. They are a grace from God. There is risk in everything we face every day. Vaccines lessen risk far more than they add to them.
Come on...you spoke using a sweeping generality. So I responded with an unsupported response. Since the inception of vaccinations, there have been faith based movements to forego vaccinations, long before Jenny McCarthy.
Faith is faith. I don’t get between people and their faith. If you had said, in your first post, that faith was why people weren’t vaccinating I’d have said exactly that.
However, that’s not what you said.
You were talking about parents making educated decisions. I inferred that “educated decisions” meant meant reading about the subject, talking to / listening to doctors or celebrities or whoever they thought was in position to disseminate the info they needed and then making a conscious, educated decision. My response was based on this line of thinking.
Are you OK with what planned parenthood did with the aborted babies?
You realize most vaccines are grown in cell lines derived from abortions, right?
I think there may be some kids who for health reasons or immune system problems can’t get vaccinated, so they would be vulnerable.
Ray, I should have researched a little further before shooting off my big mouth. I am living in the 90’s where vaccinations are concerned. It looks as though Texas hasn’t required the small pox vaccine in some time And that a scarlet fever vaccine was a figment of my imagination. Sorry if I gave you a “bum steer.” (Just the cow girl in me)
Did they survive because they were sanitary or did they survive because they were forced to live apart from everyone else due to anti-Semitism? And if I remember correctly, the plague came from the infected fleas that came off the rats that came off the ships at port. Even the cleanest house can get a flea infestation. They're looking for blood, not dirt.
I don't know. Just asking.
If said schools are being supported by taxes paid by the parents of non-vaccinated kids, the issue becomes a bit more complicated.
I have not had to get a vaccine for a child for years. I was unaware that the rubella and chickenpox vaccines had been started that way. It is important to note that each were started with an already aborted fetus and that no babies are continually aborted to support it. Just two, and the killing was chosen by the mother and not done for the purpose of obtaining vaccines. Still, that is a valid religious reason. Thanks for telling me, albeit in a round about way.
Interesting info: http://www.drwalt.com/blog/2008/07/09/vaccine-myth-13-vaccinations-are-made-from-aborted-babies/
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