Posted on 07/31/2008 7:22:31 AM PDT by yankeedame
Stand by for a load of mindless anti vaccine drivel and pseudo science that is headed your way.
There are so many conspiracy theorists who think such treatments cause other problems and scream anytime anyone mentions such things. I don’t know if you can elect to have your children immunized but I’d do it.
I’ll start: Fear of autism.
The problem is not Mexicans. The problem is liberal trust-funders who consider immunization declasse. The last two measles outbreaks were caused by globe-trotting upper-middle-class couples who took their unimmunized children places where there were active measles. And these were places like Switzerland — not Swaziland.
As much merit as Glenn Reynolds point has, the pharmaceutical companies also have to be held liable for their lobbying of politicians to stack vaccine requirements onto children that aren’t needed.
Yup. That's longterm. I guess some parents feel it better for their kids to die of diphtheria or polio. At least that way the problem is over fast.
Illegal. Immigration.
When I had to take my children back to the doctor to get vaccinated for three more viruses, I asked why they added them. The doctor said too many immigrants from Mexico were bringing in old diseases that needed to be stopped. I said spefically Mexico and he said yes, that is what the memo from the CDC said.
Maybe we could get the ‘evil rich’ to pay the Federal excise taxes on poor peoples’ vaccinations?
A friend of mine whose kids aren’t immunized says that their doc advised them to get the shots if they go to third world countries. I posed the question: What about Disneyland/World?
You are talking about vaccines that were already in place, this is talking about new ones added due to newly increased numbers of things like Hepatitus (sp), TB, and one other I can’t think of.
Oh yeah, and that Chicken Pox vaccine. I scoffed at that one, but my daughter had the vaccine and still had an outbreak that almost put her in the hospital. They told me if she hadn’t have had the vaccine, she would might have died. She was the type case the vaccine was made for. As bad as it was, the pox only lasted four days instead of the usual 7 to 10. So in that case it helped.
I have in-laws who didn’t vaccinate their kids, figuring they didn’t need to vaccinate since they home school. They ended up with a houseful of Whooping Cough (pertussis).
The component of the measles vaccine that was blamed for autism has been removed from the vaccine. Next?
“Chicken Pox vaccine. I scoffed at that one, but my daughter had the vaccine and still had an outbreak that almost put her in the hospital. They told me if she hadn’t have had the vaccine, she would might have died...”
If you believe that line, your naive.
because we have allowed ourselves to turn into a third-world country with an influx of mexicans and those from south of the border...we are having a big problem here in DFW because of foul water in swimming pools...it is getting worse...proportional to the influx of mexicans
You might think I am niave, but I know how bad she had it.
So you are saying people don’t die from Chicken Pox? I really would have hated to see how bad it would have been without the vaccine.
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