I think that some vaccinations are a really good idea and others less so. It used to be that you had a few vaccinations as a kid. I understand it’s more like 70 today. How did us old people ever survive?
I wouldn’t want to be the parent that was too cool for vaccines when the polio outbreak hits and the vaccine has a 6 month waiting list.
It is not uncommon in the midst of a chickenpox outbreak, for many anti-vaccine families to have their kids play with the infected kids to bring about chickenpox in their kids and “get it over with.” The theory is that it is healthier for their kids to have chickenpox “naturally” and be protected for life vs getting repetitive shots for life and risk getting it in adulthood where is can be more serious. Thus, this “outbreak” may be a managed “outbreak.”
Hey, if a few were good a whole lot more has to be better.
Right?
The CDC schedule is app 23 vaccination from birth to 15 mos. Yeah, it's increased a few thousand % since when I was a kid.
I had my kids get it because one of my kids has terrible asthma and was routinely on steroids for it. Her susceptibility to a bad case of chicken pox was higher because of being on steroids.
None of my kids got it when they were very young, but my son got it when he was 8. His sister had outgrown having the steroids every day by then.
Smallpox, polio, DPT were pretty much the only vaccines when I was a kid-and kids were not given more than one at a time, over a period of months-it was the same when my cub was little-kids were not literally attacked with multiple vaccines all at once doing possible harm to their developing immune system. I exposed my cub deliberately to chickenpox at age 5-same as my mom did with me.
I have never had shingles, and I am not vaccinated for it-my immune system works fine-I take the right supplements and stay properly exposed to the environment to keep it that way without unnatural substances. I also do not agree that kids automatically should be bombarded with multiple vaccines-let the patents decide what is right for their kid-after all, it is their kid and their choice-not the government’s. There are a lot of parents out here who do not not have kids vaccinated for chickenpox, meningitis, HPV and some other things-but there are also very few kids in the public school, too-most kids are homeschooled or attend the small country Christian school nearby...
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>> “How did us old people ever survive?” <<
By not getting vaccines.
I still do it that way.