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What a load of fear-mongering crap!
I had all of the so-called childhood diseases by the time I was six. Mumps, measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, and a few colds, and have never been seriously ill since.
I'm 69 years old, and have worked in highly contaminated environments on numerous occasions, doing the engineering for sewage treatment plant expansion, without the slightest worry.
I don't do doctors, so I stay healthy.
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Well, you might think it is fear mongering crap, and I don’t doubt that you are 69 years old and have worked in contaminated environments and all that, that’s fine.
If you don’t want to do doctors, that’s fine.
But to say it is fear mongering to point out that there were a lot of parents who were justifiably scared sick for the health and well being of their children, and that it was some kind of statist plot to get the camel’s nose in the tent for vaccinations, well...you are dead wrong, no offence.
And if we lived in a time where Yellow Fever and malaria were endemic in this country, or if we had a plague that was killing tens of thousands of otherwise healthy people, we would clamor for a cure, any kind of cure that would give us and our loved ones a chance to stay alive.
We live in a time where we haven’t had to worry about smallpox, bubonic plague, yellow fever, and so on. If we had a wave of smallpox roll through this country killing large numbers of people, the same people who are up in arms about vaccinations would change their tune, and quickly.