[ SECRET POST #2969 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2969 ⌋

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[The Sound of Music]


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[Grayson]


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[Criminal Minds (Spencer Reid)]


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["Do You Love Me?" from Fiddler on the Roof]


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[The 100]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

And I hope you realize that "full" vaccination slate includes things like the chicken pox vaccine and HPV?

I've never had either. They didn't exist when I was young enough to be considered for them. I had chicken pox at eight. Caught it from a classmate. In fact, our whole class caught them. Not a single one of us died.

As for HPV? I'm 36 and have never had any kind of sex (oral, vaginal, anal.. not even frottage or handjobs or anything). So guess who's "well woman" exams turn up negative for HPV WITHOUT having been vaccinated?

I think the OP is well within her rights to choose which vaccinations her child gets, and I applaud her for that.

[lb_lee]

In fact, our whole class caught them. Not a single one of us died.

Congratulations. Not every child has a robust immune system. Immuno-compromised children, such as ones with cancer, are at more risk. Kids get the vaccines nowadays to protect THOSE children, and the elderly and other weakened folks around them. It's not as simple as you're making it out. (And note, I too predate the chicken pox vaccine. That doesn't mean I wouldn't vaccinate my kids against it. Why put them through a disease needlessly?)

I think the OP is well within her rights to choose which vaccinations her child gets, and I applaud her for that.

You're acting here like chicken pox and HPV are the same as polio, rubella, and measles. Not all diseases are created equal. As someone who worked with polio survivors from the pre-vaccine age, it is my opinion that only someone insulated from all experience with polio would have the sheer arrogance of not vaccinating their healthy child against it. Because even if THEIR kid doesn't get sick, they increase the risk for other people with compromised immune systems.

This isn't like choosing chocolate over vanilla ice cream, this is a matter of public safety. You aren't just "choosing" to risk your child, but the lives of other people around them, and I don't appreciate you oversimplifying these matters. It's misleading and dishonest.

--Rogan

[(Anonymous)]

I got chicken pox when I was a kid, too, because you're right, there wasn't a vaccine. But chickenpox not only can be deadly (every year, kids would and do die from it), just having chickenpox puts you at higher risk from shingles.

That's the thing about science. It's getting better, we're learner more, and the medical technology is advancing.

By the way, here's a tip on how to be more science minded - NEVER use anecdotal evidence for why you shouldn't do something that scientists recommend. Actually research, look at the statistics and numbers, and exactly WHY the vaccine is recommended. "Well I didn't do it and I'm fine" is the worst argument ever.