It seems some parents out there are coming out against immunization for their children. MSNBC has the story.
This is just fracking brilliant. Now you’re going to let your child be put as risk for these killer diseases and expose the live bacteria to my children just because you’re some stupid-ass hippy parent who wants to be all New Age and shit? Get a brain. Why do you think we almost eradicated these diseases? When was the last time you knew any children that died from these diseases? Can’t put up with a little prick to the arm? Grow up and get responsible, dumbasses.
I cannot fathom for an instant why parents would put their children at risk like this. I hope when the children grow up they thank you for your negligence. I’ll leave it up to you to determine how.
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I know some parents are worried about the autism link but frankly I think it’s about as likely as getting alzheimers from tinfoil or breast cancer from deodorant.
My best friend’s daughter nearly died from whopping cough as an infant. If people were immunizing their children the way they should have, would their family have had to go through all that? Not as likely.
Grr.
There are inherent risks with anything. Hell, with the right combination of matters, chocolate can kill you. You’re never going to avoid the risk.
To me, injecting your children with dead bacteria to prepare their immune system for the kind that lives is a fantastic precaution and helps to raise the odds that they will have a happy, healthy life. What’s worse is – this article paints the picture as a problem for everyone, even if you’re immunizing your children. Those who do not immunize and actually contract the disease can be hosts for the bacteria to produce new, immunization-resistant strains. That means these fracking idiots, through their negligence and idiocy, are putting my children at risk.
I wanna sue, that’s how pissed I am.
To my knowledge there’s no scientific evidence that autism is linked in ANY way to immunizations. There’s more evidence actually that watching more than 2 hours a day of television at a very young age may contribute to autism. For reference, see http://www.slate.com/id/2151538/ which links to the Cornell study showing it.
There’s been no similar study linking immunizations to anything except minor irritation side effects.
Although I was immunized for TB as a child, but my parents had to specifically request it and sign a waver because the US had stopped immunizing TB since it had hit such a low incidence of disease that more people caught it from a few live virus in the vaccine than they did from exposure to an infected individual.
I say immunize or sterilize the parents so they don’t spread any more disease.
Besides, those are probably the same parents who still believe the lunar landing was a hoax and that bigfoot really was caught in Georgia. They believe anything they read online, and the Internet makes mental viruses like this one even worse. It’s a social virus. Immunize those parents by removing their Internet.
Quite late on this thread – but found it and HAD to reply.
As a parent of immunisation free children, I am offended to be called dope smoking and hippy as I am neither. What I am is informed. Making the choice to not immunise does not require a “New Age” philosophy, simply an open minded one. Nowadays with better living conditions, better nutrition and access to quality healthcare (free for under 5s here in NZ) children are not at the same levels of risk that they used to be many years ago.
Having struck this closed minded attitude towards vaccination before, I will point out that if your children are indeed properly immunised, then they don’t have any risk of catching anything off my non-immunised children do they. Or are you actually concerned that the vaccines in fact do not work, so your children are still susceptible to catching some dreaded disease off mine? If they can still catch something then what is the point of vaccinating in the first place?
At least if my children do get sick with something that they could have been immunised against, modern healthcare and good parenting will almost certainly ensure they do not die of it. And they will continue to have true immunity into adulthood – children who are merely vaccinated against these same diseases could die of it in adulthood, once the vaccines have worn off. Had your booster shots lately??
It is interesting to note that diptheria, which they still immunise against here in NZ, no longer exists here. Why then continue vaccinating against it? It has been pointed out to me that vaccinating our babies at 6 weeks of age (when they recieve the first lot of shots here) is more about getting the parents on the books, before they leave their ante-natal carer and move beyond the hooks of the medical establishment.
It would appear to me that you have not considered the other side of your argument and there are very valid reasons not to immunise.