Wanna know unsafe? Unsafe is polio, whooping cough, diphtheria, etc etc,,,,
Every vaccine is far safer than the disease. This is a parlor game for moms who walk around talking about autism, irritable bowel syndrome, ADD, alar apples, fibromyalgia,, and other insane white female “diseases”.
Well, this is a dad that’s talking about the government respecting my right as a parent to decide what and what not I subject MY children to.
That’s not me talking, that’s Congress and the Supremes. You might want to direct your angst toward those who failed to curb the unvaccinated illegals from gaining a foothold in this country in the first place. And don’t forget the potential for an ebola epidemic.
You seem to be implying that I condone those who don’t vaccinate. I said nothing of the kind; just putting the facts out there, the way our elected officials and highest court in the land sees it.
You’re not suggesting that relevant information be withheld from the public, are you?
The problem is that the vaccine protocol today isn't like when we were kids: Back then, we got the polio vaccine twice—the scratch on your arm, and later the oral vaccine. Tetanus every 10 years, and a booster if you got a cut outdoors. Measles maybe, maybe not. Diphtheria not much of a problem any more, so no. Mumps, no. We all came down with mumps, and there may have been some kids somewhere that it harmed, but I literally never heard of any.
Now they give kids 48 injections before they're 2—including hepatitis B, a disease you can only get if you're an intravenous drug user or a poofter. That's not my kids' career path. The hep-B shot for at least a decade carried the risk of giving you the disease itself. What I don't trust about today's shot regimen is that it's a government-protected, government-run business, with no liability exposure to encourage companies to beware of overloading the immune system with large doses of irritants. That ain't capitalism, and I don't trust it.
In practical terms, some things just aren't worth getting shots for, as long as you don't crap where you eat. When I had to go work for a stint in rural Africa, I stopped by Cornell's clinic specially designed for travelers to the primitive tropics. They gave me one or two shots. For the rest, they said not to bother: A well-nourished Westerner with good habits who drank only bottled water and used bug spray wouldn't contract most things that felled the natives, such as typhoid and malaria, and I wouldn't get dangerously ill even if I got sick. I believed them more than I trust Merck today, because even though Cornell charged by the shot, they were willing to tell me against interest that there was a line not worth crossing. I assume they were correct, because I didn't get sick, nor did my colleagues.
Here in the U.S., my kids didn't get shots at all, and are now grown. We raised them to play outside, wash their hands a lot, clean their cuts, and take Airborne if they felt a sore throat coming on. They've always been healthy as horses.