Tell that to parents of vaccine-injured kids
If your family is vaccinated against those diseases, what do you have to fear from contact with the un-vaccinated?
Just sayin'.
TSgt: "I never cease to be amazed by willfully ignorant FReepers. Keep your un-vaccinated self and un-vaccinated child away from my family."
Me: TSgt, if vaccines are safe and effective, what do you care if no one else get's one? If they work, aren't you and your family protected? So why concern yourself with others who don't have the vaccine.?
Thank you for vaccinating your family to protect society from the diptherea, cholera, polio, etc. raging through our nation.
Cuz that's what the vaccinations are for, to protect others from the little disease vectors, ...in mommie's arm; down at the local open air grocery market; next to the open-air garbage pits and sewers harboring all those 19th century epidemic diseases ...most of which only exist in textbooks nowadays.
Do the math:
Probabability of contracting dipthera, cholera, polio, smallpox, etc.: ~ <0.001%.
Probability of SIDS, brain damage, damaged immune system, ADHD, etc. ~ >5%.
You-Make-The-Call
Some people think that vaccines never cause any harm, some people think they’re the devil incarnate; probably the truth is somewhere in the middle. Just as all medications don’t work for all people and can actually cause damage, some people have horrible reactions to vaccines. To think that everyone responds the same to every foreign thing that is introduced to their body is illogical.
If you think there’s nothing wrong with vaccines then by all means, get vaccinated and keep up to date with boosters and you shouldn’t have anything to worry about from the people who choose not to get vaccinated.
I don’t have a problem with all vaccines, but the ever increasing number of them is troublesome. I also find the combining of different vaccines troublesome. Studies are done on the individual vaccines, but none on the combo shots. Hep B for a baby? Makes no sense. Pertussis for a baby? Probably makes sense, but wears off after approx. 5 years. So go get revaccinated, if you’re afraid of your 5 year old coming down with Whooping Cough, even though by then if they’re generally healthy their immune systems are strong enough to fight the bacteria.
In this case, go find a doctor that will listen to your concerns about vaccines and work with you to come up with a reasonable alternative.
That's the basic conclusion I have come to. But when I counted up all the shots my son had while getting all his vaccinations it came to something like 23 or 24. Considering that there will probably be additional vaccinations in the future, there has to be a better way. It's pretty traumatic for young children to get 4 or 5 shots at once, and perhaps physically stressful also to deal with all that.
That's the basic conclusion I have come to. But when I counted up all the shots my son had while getting all his vaccinations it came to something like 23 or 24. Considering that there will probably be additional vaccinations in the future, there has to be a better way. It's pretty traumatic for young children to get 4 or 5 shots at once, and perhaps physically stressful also to deal with all that.
I never cease to be amazed by willfully ignorant FReepers. Keep your un-vaccinated self and un-vaccinated child away from my family.Not all vaccines are the same, none of them are completely "safe", some are safer than others and some of them are frankly not necessary.Vaccines are safe.