Posted on 01/29/2015 6:14:28 AM PST by C19fan
Carl Krawitt has watched his son, Rhett, now 6, fight leukemia for the past 4 1/2 years. For more than three of those years, Rhett has undergone round after round of chemotherapy. Last year he finished chemotherapy, and doctors say he is in remission.
Now, there's a new threat, one that the family should not have to worry about: measles.
Rhett cannot be vaccinated, because his immune system is still rebuilding. It may be months more before his body is healthy enough to get all his immunizations. Until then, he depends on everyone around him for protection — what's known as herd immunity.
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I guess it’s okay, as long as he understands that his own unvaccinated son would have to be barred as well.
If the school is to bar unvaccinated children, and his child cannot be vaccinated because of his cancer treatment, then doesn’t it follow that his child would need to be barred from school? And if that is the case, why not keep him home voluntarily until his immune system improves?
Vaccine schedule
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/index.html
12-23 months MMR + more. Idiot media does not fact check.
That’s what I was thinking. I sure wouldn’t stake my child’s life on a macro planning tool.
The basic concept of herd immunity is directly applicable only under very special conditions. The agents of disease must be restricted to a single host species within which transmission occurs by relatively direct contact, and infection induces solid immunity. Also outbreaks must occur only in randomly mixing populations. In free-living populations, susceptibles are not distributed homogeneously but tend to cluster in subgroups defined by age and by such factors as ethnicity and socioeconomic status. The requisite for occurrence of epidemics, namely a large enough number of susceptibles in frequent contact with each other, exists in virtually all large populations, regardless of the total proportion of the population that is immune. Experience with measles illustrates these conditions. Total prevalence of immunity of ⩾90% in developing countries does not prevent annual epidemics among the susceptibles, most of whom are children younger than three years of age. Where vaccination is widely practiced, as in the United States since 1962, measles has continued to occur in poorly immunized subgroups that are characterized by low educational level and economic status, very young age, or religious beliefs forbidding acceptance of vaccine. Ultimate success of a systematic immunization program requires knowledge of distribution of susceptibles by age and subgroup and maximal effort to reduce the concentration of susceptibles throughout the community rather than aiming to reach any specific proportion of the overall population.
Unless you are one of our “new” citizens then Barry might give you a pass.
Exactly. See 45.
“... his child would need to be barred from school?”
From the article, the father wants an exemption that children may attend IF they cannot be vaccinated due to a medical condition. So.. he wants his son to be allowed to go to school since he would follow under those medical guidelines. For me... that precious face.. why would any parent not consider keeping him home (and home schooled) until he was healthy?
Most of the people I know that get vaccines get auto immune diseases.
Do your homework and you will realize you are being lied to.
I did mine and have not been sick since 2006. I use to get sick 3 to 4 times a year every year. I got colds and even had allergies slowly getting worse every year.
Guess what? Did my homework,and I have not been sick since. Not even so much as the common cold or allergies anymore.
I STRONGLY advise you to find out all the chemicals that are in the vaccine. Write them down and do the research.
Unfortunately most people will not do the above, and the wonder why more people are sick today than 50 years ago.
How about the measles outbreak vs. all the illegal children coming to this country?
Did they get their vaccinations in Ghana? Sorry wrong continent. Maybe Guinea. /s
I think we were vaccinated when we were a little older in around 69 or 70. I think mine was about the last to bear the scar of a smallpox vaccine.
I thought they already did.
“Self-absorbed father of Bubble Boy wants other kids barred from school to accommodate him.”
Possibly, but my reading of the article is that he would have his son immunized if he could. At this point, the boy cannot receive a live-virus vaccine.
The outcome of the anti-vaccination movement will be the re-emergence of childhood diseases that we have not seen in generations, as the level of herd immunity falls and the number of susceptible hosts available to sustain a disease increases.
Be prepared for PREVENTABLE cases of measles encephalitis, fatal pertussis, paralytic poliomyelitis, etc. among our young children to occur in the coming decades.
I am not looking forward to this, since I had an aunt, and uncle, and a cousin crippled by polio.
This father has just seen his child through a 4+ year battle with cancer, and is trying to do what he believes is right for his child, and you’re calling him names because you disagree? If you’re looking for a “shit head” or “@sshole,” try looking in the mirror.
“MEASLE’S LIVES MATTER!”
let me invite him to the state of Mississippi, the state with the highest compliance rate of immunization in the country.
My son was 18 months and got the second round of shots. That night, after the shots, he changed , a lot. From outgoing and normal to no more attempts at speech, no eye contact, and constant ear and nose infections.
He’s still autistic, but not in local schools as compliance, along with common core, is the path our state chooses. Even the repugnican state senator chair of the education committee was all for common core(it’s the money).
There are attempts, grass root in nature to change some of these things. In a lot of these issues the Republican leaders of the state house and senate are in lockstep with teacher’s unions.
So, come on down! It’s freakin heaven down here for libricans.
I agree with you. Vaccinations are not 100%, and there are many illnesses for which vaccinations are not required (such as the flu) or are not available. So why would you risk your child's life like that? Just to put him in public school?
I suggest you go to an old cemetery and see how many small children are buried there. Then go to an new one and see the difference.
There is a reason for that, the very vaccines you are bemoaning.
The autism/vaccination link scam has been completely debunked. I am very sorry for your son’s condition, but the vaccinations did not cause it.
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