Posted on 03/08/2019 3:46:12 PM PST by Simon Green
Joshua Nerius became privy to his parents’ anti-vaxxer convictions only after he contracted measles himself at 30 years old. Now he’s speaking out against parents who hold similar beliefs, calling them “people who want to spread fear.”
What began as a rash and high fever in the spring of 2016 was later discovered to be none other than measles— a highly contagious, and often life-threatening disease that’s become increasingly rare since the introduction of a vaccine in 1963.
It was only after an emergency room doctor told Nerius his condition strongly resembled measles that Nerius asked his mother if he’d been vaccinated. She responded with a thumbs-down emoji.
Anti-vaxxers, or, those against vaccinations, are often considered to share more of a fringe mindset, often holding steadfast to the belief that vaccinating children can lead to afflictions such as autism. While this claim has been disproved by many reputable sources, fervent anti-vaxxers argue the denial is a conspiracy orchestrated by Big Pharma.
Dr. Paul Offit, who is both a professor of pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, spoke to CNN about the children he treated during 1991’s measles outbreak in the City of Brotherly Love. “They were absolutely miserable. And occasionally, they were dead,” he said, referencing the nine children who died as a result of the outbreak.
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In my day most of the children who died of childhood diseases were ill to begin with, diabetes,hemophilia, Downs syndrome, cardiac and lung issues.
it wasn’t that the parents did anything wrong, the children were less than optimal.
Only asses would blame parents for a kid dying of an infectious disease.
I thought German measles is not the measles. Maybe I am wrong.
As someone who caught the measles late in life due to allergies to egg, I strongly recommend getting vaccinated.
You can run around and trust that big brother knows best.
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Or you can die or have your children die because you were too stupid to understand that the government is occasionally correct, particularly when it comes to health.
Why do what big brother wants when you can prove what a pioneer and patriot you are by being pig headed and stubborn and such a rugged individualist. I mean, so what if your kids get measles or tetanus and die as adults. After all, you were such a true American who stood up to the bossy government who think they know better than the boys down at the manure plant. When in doubt always always favor the most dangerous lethal alternative to commen sense. After all you only live once.
Be sure and do your research on the anti vax websites where all their info is scientific and accepted by doctors everywhere. Don’t let 500 years of experience with vaccines, the entire scientific community and almost every family doctor sway your beliefs. Ignorance is bliss. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Had the measles when I was 5, hell most of the kids back then came down with the measles by the time they were 6, pretty common. Had chicken pox when I was 9.
The vaccination debate is full on propaganda war. All I know is that the USA does not need disease within its borders.
He got the vaccine like you read the article - not at all.
I had chicken pox, all the kids in the house did at the same time. Later my youngest half-sibling got chickenpox again - as an adult - and it went to his brain and he nearly died. He was supposedly immune. Meh - this happens.
My youngest was vaccinated for chickenpox and yet had a horrible case (he apparently looked worse than he felt) when he was 10. Had to be home for a dozen days. School started to bitch at me to send him back, but I couldn’t until his recovery reached a certain point. He also had scarlatina when he was a baby.
When I was vaccinated for small pox I ended up with “pox” up and down that arm.
Kinda makes one wonder.
How about the smallpox? More died from the shots than the disease.
The abortion industry is quite involved as well. Nothing good ever comes from that.
You can have chicken pox more than once. I’ve had it multiple times. Each time my doc has said “You probably didn’t have it before.” Then I remind him that he diagnosed it previously. LOL
The good news: each time it’s a milder case. The first time was bad.
I remember when the nurse told us that rumors the preservative Thimerasol was the cause of the rise in diagnosis of autism.And that the shots were safe. I had a gut feeling that I ignored.... and the doctor whose office I was in , such a conscientious man,if I couldn’t trust him with my son’s health, who could I trust? I did not know the doctor who went to Africa and other areas to vaccinate the poor, brought back large amounts of the cheaper Thimerasol preserved MMR vaccines and used them in his local clinic.My son had a fever for three days and when it finally released him, he was changed. His 5 year shot being the only possible explanation. The Doctor retired, and 16 years later my son is a musically talented young man with not much in common with other people his age. I had great health insurance working in a DOD contract aircraft maintenance, so I could have gone somewhere else but that nurse was so convincing. God’s abilities are not changed and we pray for a miracle as he is a good looking kid and my only son.
Is this a serious post? People used to regularly die of smallpox and all manner of diseases. Or be crippled by polio. And because of vaccinations, many of these diseases have been almost entirely eradicated. So I’ll say it. Yes. Anyone who forgoes them is stupid.
Then count me in. I would absolutely blame parents for the death of children from a 100% preventable disease.
What’s with the vaxxers flooding all news outlets with pro-vaccination propaganda the last few days? What’s going on behind the scenes?
as you know, not every vaccine works well, as well, or at all, with different strains of a virus.
we have foreign sick people pouring into this country, known sick, not stopped. they are doing it on purpose to cause epidemics to occur and push the vaccine mandate.
they are creating the problem so it can be blamed on anti-vaccine folks. classic socialist tactics.
The death rate of people who get smallpox is 30%.
The death rate of people vaccinated aRE 1-2 people per 1 million people.
In other words, there is no issue that vaccines are safer than the disease by thousands, ACTULLY hundreds of thousands.
If you get your scientific information from the anti vax nutwad websites you will look foolish since they make it up.
What going on is the recent stories in the news of unvaccinated adults almost dying of measles and kids running up 800000 medical bills fighting tetanus because their idiotic stupid parents didn’t get them vaccinated plus the adults coming forward who didn’t get vaccinated and are complaining about their parents who endangered their health.
Do some reading and you won’t sound so ignorant of current events. It’s notbtht hard.
The newest thing is to give a newborn a “cocktail” of vaccines which can’t be safe.
I don’t frequent nutjob sites. Real life has enough of that. You didn’t address the abortion industry and vaccines though. There’s a very large ethical issue there. I suppose if you’re ok with abortions, then you don’t have an issue.
The government you tell us to trust is responsible for the obesity epidemic, the pre-diabetics and type2, by their demonizing of fats and promotion of sugar starting in the 1970’s. The same government approved Vioxx, and the polio vax linked to brain cancer.
You really are an @$$. But that’s OK. You imagine a vain thing, which will be your undoing.
Love keeping these threads going. I think I’ll start posting book titles and organizations for folks to do their own research.
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