Niv wrote:Cannydc wrote:measurer wrote:Cannydc wrote:And won't.
Those of us who remember their mates in iron lungs (Polio), blind or impotent (measles or mumps), disabled (Rubella in mum) or dead (Smallpox) have no wish to return to those days.
That's it in a nutshell, and because some mothers who have listened or read too much bollox re the MMR jab and are not allowing their kids to have it, the old diseases are coming back. We also have foreigners hoiking up Tuberculosis too, and God knows what else, as they come to this country unprotected, or in some cases - they arrive here with it.
My youngest was ill as fook because of a stupid woman who hadn't had her child vaccinated against Measles. And why wasn't my son already vaccinated I hear you ask - well, because he was under the age for the jab. So I had a very ill baby on my hands, when in an ideal World, he shouldn't have been exposed to measles. Not until you have had to deal with the fall-out of these diseases do you realise how life threatening they are. Thankfully because of my background, I knew what I had to do for it not to cause blindness, impotency, etc, but not all young mothers will know what to do, or not to do.
The odds are in favour of vaccination, and any mother without good reason for not having her child vaccinated, needs shooting.
It's like listening to Jehovah's Witnesses trying to tell you that a child will recover with God's help, when you know a blood transfusion is all that is needed. Anyone not having their children vaccinated is selfish, not only to their own child, but also to those with illnesses such as cancer, bad immune systems etc. It might not kill your child but was your decision also based on your child passing it on to a weaker child? No, don't think so. SELFISH.
Absolutely spot on.
Above is one of the usual claims - children's immune systems...natural immunity...vaccinations different etc etc.
Those facts are true. The bit they miss - deliberately, no doubt - is that we could never risk our kids with a natural, full force meeting with Smallpox, Polio, Tetanus and many more in the HOPE that they would develop immunity without getting seriously sick. Vaccinations do that job. And a bloody good job they do to.
Vaccinations certainly do that job, and anybody being ignorant to that fact is a fool. It's usually these New Age hippy types who have all these warped ideas about them being harmful and poisoning the body. They usually follow their beliefs with equally strange behaviour like stripping naked during a full moon, and drinking their own piss.
There are always going to be the cases of some having contraindications, or reactions/allergies. In the grand scheme of things they are usually very much a minority.
Are you saying Rollup strips naked and dances in the moonlight drinking his own piss?