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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If a cake maker can be sued for not servicing gay patrons and then forced by the courts to give up their 1st amendment rights, then why can a doctor be sued for not seeing children who’s parents have decided, for what ever reason, to not get vaccines?
Because shut up.
If the pro-vaxxers had a strong case they’d address the actual issues of massively combined vaccine schedules, questionable adjuvants, and already sick illegal immigrants. Instead they castigate parents as enemies and fools as disgustingly as possible, and invoke the logical absurdity of herd immunity. Massive dishonesty proves the weakness of their case.
For the other side of the story:
http://vaccines.mercola.com/
Because pediatricians have many patients who are too young for vaccinations. No one’s lives are in danger if a cake is baked or not baked.
Ummm...sorry, I can’t follow what you’re trying to say...
And why wouldn't the anti-vaxxers do so first?
What?
Here, let me rephrase: why wouldn’t the anti-vaxxers do so first?
If that is a doctor’s thinking, they are in the wrong profession.
They DO. But these issues still go ignored, just look at this article as an example.
Considering how tiny the world has become–and with the recent influx of poor children from destitute places and concomitant potential to be exposed to prevantable communicable diseases like measles or diphtheria–not vaccinating kids is just plain nuts.There goes one of the legs of your three-legged stool.
Until you find out that vaccinated children are the SOURCE of infections, and that using the concept of "herd immunity" to support vaccination is based on the idea that vaccines DON'T protect from infection.
Nor do vaccines keep up with the sheer numbers of bacterial strains that develop in any particular outbreak.
In which case, where's the protection?
At some point, do vaccines become too much of a good thing? Is there a greater chance for a negative outcome with the numbers of vaccinations children are expected to have today? Is it destroying our immune systems? Is getting some diseases and having a built up immunity for life any more risky than too many vaccines? Are we enabling the pols who support the invasion of the US by getting vaccinations to protect us from the diseases the invaders bring with them? Do parents still control medical decisions for their children? Is human tissue from abortions being used in any of these vaccines?
It's about the government at all levels having taken over most aspects of our lives, and that can't lead anywhere good.
And thanks for mentioning the term, "herd." In a perfect world the loss of non-vaccinated children simply would thin it. But it doesn't work that way . . . .
Polio was decreasing on its own before the vaccine was created...
I don’t remember the exact numbers but... I think I remember reading that we gave children 13 drugs in vaccination in the ‘50s. Now, it’s more than 50. Sorry, I don’t trust the jerks in charge of all this. Eugenics anyone? That and population control are strong strains in the body politic.
Yeah, because vaccinations aren't reliable.
Other than that, they're totally worth the government sending armed agents against families to enforce.
Yep.
Stay focused. Re-read my second sentence.
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