[montag813]

As a medical professional, I just have to shake my head at this nonsense. If schools simply required all children to use Purell regularly in class, and barred symptomatic kids from school, they would cut all communicable spead by over 95%, and virtually eliminate ear infections in the process.

[Calpernia]

Montag813 for NJ Governor!

[Sudetenland]

Surely you jest, sir. I see full blown adults walk out of our restrooms having performed both versions of waste elimination either without washing their hands or just running water over their hands and drying them...If adults can't learn this, how is a teacher going to get thirty kids to do that? You'd be lucky it the little heathens didn't drink the stuff. :)

The principles behind vaccination are absolutely valid and have saved billions of lives since the small pox vaccine was discovered. I can still hear the relief in my mother's voice today (50 years after the fact) when she talks about the blessings of Salk's and Sabin's discoveries. Parents literally lived their lives in terror of their children getting polio. That fear was genuine and the vaccine was a miracle.

That 5% has the potential to be devastating.