Some years ago I was working at an office and the head of my department became ill, very ill but kept coming to work until she was finally so ill that she finally took a day off, just one day off mind you. But then she came back to work the next day and she was still feverish and visibly sweating, flushed, her eyes red and swollen and coughing up a storm but claiming that her “doctor” had told her she was no longer contagious.
What did she have? Purtussis, i.e. Whopping Cough.
I along with a co-worker who had just had a baby 6 weeks earlier and several others were in a meeting with her, in her very small office watching her sweat and continually and deeply cough as she told us it was “just whooping cough” and nothing at all to be concerned about and then went on to go on a long rant and lecture to us about how vaccines are more dangerous than the disease and how her “doctor” (actually as she told us her chiropractor and not an MD), had prescribed herbal remedies which she told us was much better than any modern medicine.
The woman who had just had her baby was pretty upset and left the meeting. I myself was not as much concerned for myself as I’ve been vaccinated but wondered how many others weren’t.
A few days later this department head was off work again. At first I presumed because she was too ill, but it turned out she had transmitted her Pertussis to her infant granddaughter who was now in the hospital in intensive care, on a ventilator, seriously ill and not expected to live. Thankfully the baby did eventually recover but only after several weeks in the hospital.
Oh and three others in our office suite who were not vaccinated also became ill and missed at least a week of work.
But did this woman change her mind about vaccinations? No. Proving that you just can’t cure stupid.
OMG