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I had a friend in his late 20's that had never had chicken pox. He had a 4 year old daughter and a 6 week old daughter. He four year old gave him the chicken pox. This was before the vaccine. He is now living in a nursing home with severe brain damage secondary to enchepalitis. Sad story. The only reason we do not have more children dead like you see if you vist an old cemetery with the children lined up that died before 5 is because of immunizations. Immunizations have saved more lives than anything else ever done by medicine including antibiotics. Those who do not vaccinate their children only get by because the rest of the population does. Those that want to go without vaccinating their children are doing their children and society a disservice. They are like pacifists they only survive due to the safe society they live in. Talk to your older parents and grand parents and see how mothers were thrilled that there were vaccinations developed. Much human suffering was overcome. Talk to someone crippled by polio or that had a child in a iron lung. My mother lost a sister who was 7 years old to small pox. All the parents who hate immunizations do not understand how misguided they are in their outlook. I think of this every year during decoration when I look at my GGF and GGGM family graves and there are 6 children buried before the age of 5. I also think of it because I am a physician and do not have to tell parents their children have died of a totally preventable disease.

This is an old article but I had to say something here. As a mother of two children with ASD’s I do not believe vaccines cause Autism but am not satisfied with the statements that say Vaccines are safe! That is just not true. DO the benefits to society outweigh the risks? Probably, but that all depends on if you believe that these vaccines do not cause any short or long term problems. I am not convinced either way. The primary problem parents have, myself included, is that most physicians are not completely honest about anything these days. SO we educated parents have just stopped trusting what they say. Can you blame us? They talk down to us on most occasions, only take 5 to 10 minutes to half listen to one or two of the things we have said. DO not provide us with adequate tools to make decisions and just flat out refuse to listen to what we say. The thing is parents know so much more about their children than Dr’s do!!
That brings us to where we are today. If physicians want parents to make good choices than be honest, listen better and work with the parents and not against us!
I have not worked as a nurse for over 10 years but I have no problem reading studies for myself and understanding them. A lot of the studies being cited as proof of vaccine safety are funded by pharmaceutical companies or other parties that have a vested interest in mass vaccine production and use. So how can we trust the results 100%?? I think we will see vaccine rates decline more and more until the medical community get’s it!
Also, Parents are tired of being lied to because your God complex and elitism prevent you from being honest and saying “I don’t know” when you really don’t know something.
BTW, both of my children are fully vaccinated, and I regret it all the time.
My oldest had a case of Shingles three months after getting his chicken pox Vaccine and I know it would not have happened if I had not been forced to give him an unneeded vaccine. I had chickenpox at age 15 and was fine and am fully immune to this day.... both my boys will need booster after booster to hopefully not contract it in adulthood! Give me a break on this one.
Now we are forcing young girls to get HPV viruses injected into them in hopes that one day they might not get cervical cancer?? Please how can you force this when it’s an STD not a communicable one?