Posted on 02/03/2015 7:15:43 AM PST by azkathy
Rand Paul: Most vaccines should be ‘voluntary’ By ADAM B. LERNER 2/2/15 2:42 PM EST Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) waded into the debate over vaccinations Monday, telling conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham that he thinks most vaccines should be “voluntary.” Paul, an ophthamologist and likely 2016 White House hopeful, expressed particular concern over mandatory vaccinations for sexually transmitted diseases. He criticized former Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his executive order mandating that Texas children receive the HPV vaccine. “I’m not anti-vaccine at all,” Paul said, but “I think that’s a personal decision.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/rand-paul-vaccines-114834.html#ixzz3QhA3J7zr
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Gardisal is one of the reasons that Govenor Goodhair (Perry) will never get my vote for president.
I understand that in some cases measles can have horrible outcomes, but so can too much dependence on vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
There has to be a balance. I get it that some parents choose not to get the measles vaccination. What I don't get is why the gov has let the US be over-run by people who spread these diseases. And I don't like at all the media one-sided bullying instead of an honest discussion of which vaccines are really necessary, and what people and the government can do to thwart outbreaks of this and other diseases. And I don't like our being told that vaccines are 100% safe because it isn't true...nothing's 100% safe.
Keep in mind this is all going on not long after the gov made it a policy to bring people into the US with Ebola because our superior medical ability can handle it. It's all a bit hypocritical.
0? I wonder if that has something to do with so many Americans being immunized?
How does that work? If you have the real disease, your immune system will already be making antibodies. What good is injecting an attenuated version going to do?
Just being exposed doesn’t mean you “have the disease”. There is usually a period of time where steps that can ramp up your immune response, such as vaccinations, can be quite effective in stopping or at least reducing the effects of an infection.
Ever wonder what your state laws are regarding Vaccine Compliance/rights? Here’s a good link http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx
2) The HPV is problematic, and should not be compared to the MMRP vaccine. Parents should consider the HPV vaccine according to its merits and drawbacks, but not be forced or coerced into using it. Likewise: the meningitis vaccine now available and often recommended for college freshmen. I think that's a pretty good idea, too--but enough are getting the vaccine that your own unvaccinated child, when he goes off to college filled with germ, dirty dormitories, will have much less chance of contracting this debilitating illness, too.
3) Lawyers are making patsies of parents distraught over autism, using very poor science and very high emotion. The public health consequences will be dire if they succeed. May scorpions infest their tassel loafers.
4) None of these "childhood" ailments come alone. They often come with other pathologies…pneumonia, encephalitis, "brain fevers"--
5) Pause sometime, and be happy that we don't see little children in leg braces from polio. It was a very good thing, that polio vaccine. We are close to getting rid of it in the whole world..making it extinct. I am grateful.
Measles are not a killer disease. Neither is chicken pox. Hepatitis-B is a sexually transmitted disease AFAIK. Why should the gov’t force parents to vaccinate for those?
CLose the fricking border first. Those unwashed and disease carrying illegals are a far bigger menace than above diseases.
If Paul is a quack then so are all parents by your theory.
You do not value parents and parents. Such as shame.
I had measles, chicken pox and small pox as a kid. And I am still here in my 70’s. Blows your theory to smithereens.
Any parent who doesn’t get their children vaccinated on some looney idea that trace amounts of mercury and formaldehyde in them causes autism is a kook. I just hope their children don’t have to pay for their kooky parents beliefs.
Lots of kids died, too.
Imagine that....you survived as did I and many others. You also don’t have autism.
This also means that any and all institutions, including schools, have the right to deny services and participation to those who choose not to be vaccinated. You see, "voluntary" cuts both ways.
Which parents? You are aware that Rand Paul is open borders.
A simple solution: you have the right not to vaccinate. Schools, private or public, and for that matter any other organizations, businesses, agencies, and any other entities have the right not to admit or employ those who aren't vaccinated.
Yes, that is also my thinking.
Vaccines should be upto the parents.
Whether to allow non-vaccinated kids should up to the tax supported public schools.
Not only I do not have autism, I simply can not believe I feel so good physically and mentally in my 70’s. If I knew I was going to last this long, I would have taken even better care of myself in my brash younger years hahaha..
Do you blame every parent when a single mother’s kid grows up to be non-productive and many times a criminal? There are 100,000 such young adults get shot each year. Measles have a hard time killing 10 in a year. Keep perspective.
Life is never perfect. However freedom is paramount. Without it we are just living under tyranny.
Not true. There are 100 shades of so called “Amnesty”.
I am for 2 year work permits for foreigners. The most prosperous country on earth has that exact system in place today, where every 6th citizen is a millionaire and unemployment is MINUS 40%. Yes I am talking about Singapore.
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