[Mamzelle]

In the old days, children who contracted measles ended up with damaged neurological systems. In the old days, they would end up in institutions. I doubt you are old enough to know anything about the old days.

[grania]

I'm old enough to have gotten measles. I'm old enough to remember when people didn't bring infants into places where disease might spread until they had time for their immune systems to develop.

I understand that in some cases measles can have horrible outcomes, but so can too much dependence on vaccines and pharmaceuticals.

There has to be a balance. I get it that some parents choose not to get the measles vaccination. What I don't get is why the gov has let the US be over-run by people who spread these diseases. And I don't like at all the media one-sided bullying instead of an honest discussion of which vaccines are really necessary, and what people and the government can do to thwart outbreaks of this and other diseases. And I don't like our being told that vaccines are 100% safe because it isn't true...nothing's 100% safe.

Keep in mind this is all going on not long after the gov made it a policy to bring people into the US with Ebola because our superior medical ability can handle it. It's all a bit hypocritical.