Posted on 11/09/2013 6:30:02 PM PST by lee martell
Enforce the Rule of Law!!!!
I never had any vaccinations when I was growing up and my children did not have shots for measles or mumps but were exposed to them and had the diseases themselves when they were young. Everyone seems to have done okay. Of course that was many years ago and illegals or strangers bringing diseases into our country was not an issue.
Did they have them back then? ;)
I had my vaccines, and then after I joined the military, many, many more. My yellow card shot record is almost full.
They don't seem to have hurt me.
/johnny
/johnny
“TB is a problem now because of illegals.”
Yes, and we also had an outbreak of polio recently as well as other diseases we as a Nation had forgotten existed anymore.
TB and Polio were nonexistent when I was a child - that is, the vaccination programs were ongoing in all schools.
Now both are coming back, of course, mostly brought on by muslims sabotaging the vaccination programs and being plague carriers because of their own psychopathy.
Measles and mumps can be minor illnesses that last for a week or two and pass by leaving no lasting damage. Or they can leave you blind, sterile or dead.
And the idea that "strangers bringing diseases into our country was not an issue" is also wrong. Epidemics and Pandemics have been both common and deadly through out American history. Yellow Fever, influenza, small pox, polio and cholera out breaks that killed thousands have been recorded in North America since the 1600s.
I remember folks who lived in those days, telling me how everyone used to be terrified of getting Polio. Thank God for Dr. Salk.
“TB and Polio were nonexistent when I was a child “
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My father died of TB and polio was a big fear into my young adulthood.
I thought we had seen the last of them.
What’s next,smallpox?
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I had relatives who went down. But the complete vaccination programs removed these things.
My parent’s generation usually had at least one or two dead or paralyzed in each family. Very bad, sanatoriums were everywhere. Basically not much to do except fresh air and maintenance, eventually iron lungs.
Bubonic plague?
YIKES!! Made me a little nervous.
When we went on to Egypt and Kenya for a visit: MORE shots. Lord have mercy.
I decided that if a child survives growing up in the middle east or Africa and is in relatively good health...nothing short of a SILVER BULLET would kill him.
Occasionally there are minor outbreaks in the real pit-holes/third-world-sewers of the world.
Bangladesh had one years ago. Never made the news here but we were OVER THERE (Saudi Arabia) and saw, read and heard the news.
Researchers keep an amount of smallpox around JUST for those contingencies.
We have the cure for that now. It's chump change, mostly.
Was it smallpox that left the little white spot/scar on your arm that everybody had?
Did they have them back then? ;)”
Aren’t you funny - although it was a long time ago!! Probably has some maybe in town. But I grew up in Kansas farmland. I don’t remember ever going to the doctor until I was a teenager and only then because I got into some poison ivy and ended up with a very bad infection on my legs. I do remember the polio outbreak and going with my mom to see one of our church members who was in an iron lung. Pretty scary. We just didn’t have any strangers where we lived, nobody ever got really sick and if anyone was ill, we pretty much used old home remedies. Just a different time of life.
While it’s true that most Middle Easterners and Africans are pretty tough, I think vaccinations are in relation to local diseases. By that, I mean, some little Honeybee in Ypsilanti, Michigan might not effect the average American citizen especially, if you’ve been stung by genetic cousins of that Honeybee a few times before. Your body already has a base of resistance to build on. Whereas some of these gigantic and ‘exotic’ for lack of a better word bugs and sand dwelling weevils over there,, would present an entirely new chemical compound of venom into the interior of your body. So the multitude of shots is to prepare your system for what it has never likely encountered before, and I quickly add, this is only my opinion. I could be way off.
I had polio vaccine and a few others. back in the early '50s it was the norm for mothers to gather their kids at a home where a kid had measles/chickenpox/mumps to get it over with.
I'm not aware of any damage that later vaccines may have wrought, but i think that there are many cases where they have caused harm and possibly diluted the natural immune system. Some of us may have small aches/pains/bouts of "colds" etc., that we may not have if not for vaccines and there is no way to tell.
We do not vaccinate against TB in the US.
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