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originally posted by: InverseLookingGlass
According to the CDC, no one born before 1954 needs to be vaccinated for measles --ever. Because they recovered from measles.
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
Anyone that has been paying attention for the past couple of decades should know the tune by now, even with the different lyrics.
Oh no! We have a health care crisis in America! People are choosing not to buy health insurance and that is hurting everyone else. Let the government take that choice away from them, for the good of everyone. It will make health care simpler and more affordable.
Oh no! We have an economic crisis in America! The American people should bail out the criminal bankers with their tax dollars, whether they want to or not. It's for the good of everyone, especially the ones who should have gone to jail over this.
Oh no! Crazy people with guns are killing people! Only the government should be allowed to have guns. It's for the good of everyone, except the ones killed by government guns or by criminals who aren't following the law.
Oh no! There are terrorists in America! People need to give up their rights when it comes to searches, seizures, privacy, judicial process, and anything else the government might need to take away to protect us. It's for the good of everyone. "Everyone" meaning the government that no longer needs to worry about that pesky Constitution.
Oh no! There are drugs in America! The police need to be able to use forfeiture laws to take money and property from people so they can't buy drugs. It's for the good of everyone, especially police.
Oh no! There are viruses in America! The government needs to force people to take vaccines and give the vaccine makers immunity from lawsuits. It's for the good of everyone, especially the pharmaceutical companies that donate so generously to lawmakers campaigns. You can trust that the government will never abuse the rights you give up. You can trust anything.
Pick a few cases, have the usual propaganda outlets declare a crisis, then try to scare people into giving up their rights. Keep using the same formula, people never seem to catch on.
So, if you don't vaccinate your kid and he/she gets measles, and infects my kid and he dies -- can I go ahead and sue you? Or go after you for negligent manslaughter?
originally posted by: SantaClaus
a reply to: coldkidc
I think 100 cases of measles is pretty shocking. Its an incredibly communicable disease, and can cause a litany of other complications, including brain damage. I'm not arguing that everyone should be forced to get vaxxed, but everyone needs educated on what an epidemic this disease could turn into. Hell, there were like 7 cases of ebola, and the whole country soiled their pantaloons.
originally posted by: Involutionist
a reply to: MystikMushroom
So, if you don't vaccinate your kid and he/she gets measles, and infects my kid and he dies -- can I go ahead and sue you? Or go after you for negligent manslaughter?
If your child was vaccinated in this case; how would they come to be infected in the first place by a child who wasn't...?
If that were to happen I would sue the pharmaceutical company and ministry of health instead...
originally posted by: Philippines
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Philippines
However, I don't support the multi-cocktail for babies and young children.
This is where I stand on vaccines. I think they are effective, and only some are really necessary, but definitely not all - especially not the flu vaccine.
However, I adamantly oppose giving vaccines to newborns and infants. They have no business getting a shot that early in life. If the vaccines were effective for newborns, they wouldn't need boosters every 2 months too.
I'm on the fence regarding flu shots. I think it should be personal choice, unless it is a flu so severe it threatens society as a whole.
I did not say infants should not be vaccinated. Many infants today are in daycare where they are susceptible to communicable diseases.
I just think they should be spread out instead of a multi-cocktail.
Furthermore, if the mother is immune (through vaccines or natural immunity), she should pass on the immunity to her child - rendering vaccines obsolete for the 2nd generation onwards imo (if the mother breastfeeds).
You make a good point though for children who will be exposed to the infectious pathogens in daycare... But if they are recently immunized there should be nothing to worry about, even if other children are not vaccinated.
originally posted by: xDeadcowx
a reply to: AshOnMyTomatoes
Sanitation, hygiene and access to medical care are far more important factors to eradicating infectious disease.
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
Some of the stories by these people who were not vaccinated are pretty interesting. The comments are also eye-opening:
I was a cold war baby, and had the childhood diseases. I had measles *everywhere* including lesions under my finger and toe nails, my buttcrack and inside my mouth. My mom kept me in a dark room because of the risk of eye damage. When I had whooping cough, it turned into rheumatic fever, giving me both a heart condition and serious lung issues - I get a chest cold, it rolls into pneumonia because of the scarring in my lungs prevent them from clearing the mucus properly. I have no idea how much lifespan the heart damage has lost for me.
Vaccinate your kids. If I had my way, it would be a chargeable offense not to get your kid vaccinated barring specifically and ONLY allergy issues.
Now, I certainly don't think anyone should go to jail over not vaccinating their kids. Although I don't have permanent health issues.
I had a cousin who was brain damaged by measles as a toddler in the early 1970s and died in her teens in the mid-1980s from an embolism I believe was related. People lately seem to think measles is like the chicken pox. It's not.
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I don't think people today realize how good we've had it since things like measles have been pretty much eradicated. I wish my grandparents were still around so I could pick their brain about what it was like to live before the MMR.
originally posted by: SpongeBeard
a reply to: coldkidc
Anti-vaxxers are uneducated bull# peddlers and I'm getting sick of threads like this.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Philippines
However, I don't support the multi-cocktail for babies and young children.
This is where I stand on vaccines. I think they are effective, and only some are really necessary, but definitely not all - especially not the flu vaccine.
However, I adamantly oppose giving vaccines to newborns and infants. They have no business getting a shot that early in life. If the vaccines were effective for newborns, they wouldn't need boosters every 2 months too.
I'm on the fence regarding flu shots. I think it should be personal choice, unless it is a flu so severe it threatens society as a whole.
I did not say infants should not be vaccinated. Many infants today are in daycare where they are susceptible to communicable diseases.
I just think they should be spread out instead of a multi-cocktail.
originally posted by: ParasuvO
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Philippines
However, I don't support the multi-cocktail for babies and young children.
This is where I stand on vaccines. I think they are effective, and only some are really necessary, but definitely not all - especially not the flu vaccine.
However, I adamantly oppose giving vaccines to newborns and infants. They have no business getting a shot that early in life. If the vaccines were effective for newborns, they wouldn't need boosters every 2 months too.
I'm on the fence regarding flu shots. I think it should be personal choice, unless it is a flu so severe it threatens society as a whole.
I did not say infants should not be vaccinated. Many infants today are in daycare where they are susceptible to communicable diseases.
I just think they should be spread out instead of a multi-cocktail.
So you do or do NOT oppose the scientifically congratulated, all feet forward approach the Medical Industry has towards this ???!!?
They say this is safe PERIOD blasting all these things at once.
How can you disagree with them, and agree with them at the same time ?? Must be nice to have floating decision points.