Posted on 08/15/2015 8:55:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As a kid, I was terrified of polio. This was the era of hospital iron lung wards, in which hulking machines noisily kept scores of children breathing. Believe me, my friends and I were very aware of those! My parents signed me up to be in the first wave to receive the Salk vaccine series. Within years, polio was on a steep decline and the terror passed. Which is why it is so stunning to me that about 10% of parents refuse to vaccinate their children against potentially deadly diseases. As a consequences, some preventable diseases–made rare by vaccinations–are on the rebound. Now, some pediatricians are refusing unvaccinated children as patients.
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Gosh, I don’t remember that. My best pal in the 60s had legs that were shriveled to pieces because her parents neglected to get her vaccinated. And it’s true, the stories of iron lungs (the actress Helen Hayes was much in the news because of this) were rampant in the mid to early 50s.
Do you think everyone who disagrees with you isn't paying attention, or just me?
Why Pediatricians Refuse to See Unvaccinated Children
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Why-Are-Pediatricians-Refusing-to-See-Non-Vaccinated-Patients
For the likely fatal diseases and often debilitating, vaccinating against Hepatitis C and polio and measles is reasonable.
For some diseases, like the RSV that kills a few thousand babies a year but hardly affects the rest, the vaccinations are excessive.
For too many diseases, they are pushing vaccinations while ignoring the risks to the immune system of developing severe allergies later. We don’t all need to be vaccinated against the flu every year.
LOL, typical pro-vaxxer perspective: whether vaccines actually work is irrelevant.
Sending out SWAT teams is a non-sequitur, too, but that doesn't keep the gas grenades from coming through the windows for non-compliance.
You do know that violent enforcement is the actual issue behind the vaccination debate, right?
But not to vaccinate your child against measles or whooping cough because you think the vaccination thing has gone too far?Stop with the BS about SWAT teams, that's not the topic.
Yes.
Most vaccinations are good. But that isn't the question: the question is do you have the right to refuse the ones you consider questionable without being attacked or having your kids taken away from you?
“Stop with the BS about SWAT teams, that’s not the topic. “
You are arguing with a stupid person. They will never make sense. Liberals think emotionally and never by using facts.
Stop with the BS about SWAT teams, that's not the topic.
If SWAT teams are BS, then why did you leave out your final word? What was it? "Sorry."
Sorry for what?
Sorry for sending in the SWAT team, that's what.
Kicking in doors and stealing children to "save" them from their "endangering" parents is the ONLY issue here.
But it's okay, like I said earlier, pro-vaxxers can't talk about that. Bad for business.
“Gosh, I don’t remember that. My best pal in the 60s had legs that were shriveled to pieces because her parents neglected to get her vaccinated. And it’s true, the stories of iron lungs (the actress Helen Hayes was much in the news because of this) were rampant in the mid to early 50s.”
Instead of relying on anecdotes, perhaps take 5 minutes and google it.
Obviously, SWAT would come for NOT vaccinating. Once you poison your child, the State is pleased and will leave you alone. Otherwise you are deemed as “endangering” your children for not enrolling them the poisoning roulette game.
Your disconnect with the realities of enforcement in this matter is disturbing. The thread article itself supports denying medical care to unvaccinated children. I don’t see what there is to mock about looking at what is coming next.
I don’t trust Wikipedia. And that was hardly an anecdote. I lived through the Polio epidemic as did my brother.
In other words (and I can only surmise the following because you are dancing around my question like a banshee), you are not in favor of vaccinating a child for measles or whooping cough because things, generically, have "gone too far," and because you fear that SWAT is coming for you. Which indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of how the world operates, and the law. As for economics, you appear to have no fundamental understanding as to why a pediatrician would not want unvaccinated patients mixing with other patients.
Well you’re good at personal insults, at least. And as for pediatricians not wanting to mix vaccinated and unvaccinated children, there’s only one reason for that, and it’s not economic. It’s because the vaccines are not reliable. The doctors know they can’t trust that the vaccine will protect the vaccinated children. Also, the vaccinated children have compromised immune systems because of the vaccine, so they’re more vulnerable than the unvaccinated children. It’s so obvious, it’s incredible you’re denying it. And then you talk about the legal philosophy of law? LOL!
So, from an economics standpoint, pediatricians don’t want unvaccinated children in their waiting rooms because vaccines don’t work? I can just imagine Richard Posner staring at you in disbelief. He’d probably ask you next if your license to practice law is current.
Actually, I refuted your contention that that connection derives from an economics standpoint.
And what anyone thinks of my law degree is hardly relevant, since I don’t have one. Nor do I see why you brought the issue up. It’s a - real- non sequitur.
That much is clear, and a whole lot more.
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