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It always gets me when I see some anti-vaccine crusader on the tube talking about mercury and human breast milk etc etc etc yada yada yada young, healthy parents who basically DO NOT HAVE A CLUE!!!

These diseases, polio, whooping cough. smallpox, killed MILLIONS.

Part of the reason old-time families had a lot of kids was it was not unusual for a few of them to never survive until adulthood.

This is serious stuff, and to try to make it out like some kind of new-age, kumbaya, back to nature, herbalist BS is dangerous and destructive.

I saw a lot as a kid in the 7th and 8th grade than most people don't see. I went to school with kids that had survived Polio, had MD, CP, Open Spine, you name it. It was a school built specifically for physical rehabilitation and associated learning issues. I was there due to sensory processing issues and learning eye muscle coordination from single eye functional vision.

Here was some rather strange things I remember. About 20 kids were Autistic. BTW this was a regional school serving six counties and two larger metro areas. It wasn't that common. One kid IIRC had no arms or legs due to a shot her mother took before she was born. ADD ADHD wasn't too common and I was diagnosed with it or rather misdiagnosed with it. This was in the early 1970's.

What has changed vaccine wise in the past two decades or so? One thing is the combination shots and another was the big rush to inject as many shots as possible at the earliest age possible. If there is a problem linking vaccines to say Autism I think that the spacing between shots and combined vaccines would be the logical place to look.

With pressures to get kids in school at age three of four and more and more parents using daycare rather than kids staying home the vaccines got stepped up. The vaccine in themselves may be safe and lower risk when the body is not bombarded with them.

That is the part of the vaccine program I think they need to seriously rethink. Also as a kid we had no Pre-K nor Kindergarten for that matter so parents weren't in a huge rush nor forced to be in such.

“It always gets me when I see some anti-vaccine crusader on the tube talking about mercury and human breast milk etc etc etc yada yada yada young, healthy parents who basically DO NOT HAVE A CLUE!!!”

And if we see another flu like the 1918 strain it will kill them in droves. That was a mixed human/animal variant and those can provoke a massive immune system response. They will drown in their own antibodies.