Please Keep Your Unvaccinated Child Away **UPDATE**
UPDATES:
Update 2: 4 babies have died in my county alone from Whooping cough this year. A school close by was just shut down because of an outbreak. Health officials are urging everyone to get their booster, especially those who come into contact with babies under the age of 1. And no, I am not ranting or raving. I respect both sides of this issue as I am on both sides of this issue (I cannot take all vaccinations due to my lupus).
Update 1: No, I will not be a hermit. She gets her first vaccinations at 6-8 weeks. After that I will breathe better. How does not wanting to see my child die young from something that is PREVENTABLE make me a lunatic? No, it makes me a concerned mother, which we ALL are. ALSO the reason there is outbreaks is because people forget to get their BOOSTER shot. You need a BOOSTER EVERY 8-10 YEARS for the Whooping Cough vaccination to remain effective.
You are entitled to your opinion, I mine. I don't believe I was being rude or disrespectful, as I stated everything is your choice. So if you have proof or an interesting article that supports your case, let me know. I don't believe in giving children too many antibiotics. Or over-medicating. Vaccinations, several who have saved my life (I was born in Haiti) I will not skip!
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ORIGINAL POST
I believe, that ultimately, it is your decision not to vaccinate your child. I understand that there are a few circumstances that actually call for it. But those who do not fall into the category of the select few are putting others at risk.
Fact, the link to autism and vaccinations has been DEBUNKED. Over and over and over and over again.
Fact, the benefits outweigh the risks when it comes to vaccinating your child.
Fact, it is your choice whether not to vaccinate
BUT if you are unwilling to vaccinate your child, keep them out of the schools and day-cares. They are a danger to all with compromised immune systems (like me, I have Lupus), babies, the elderly, and young children. Case in point, whooping cough is at EPIDEMIC levels in my state right now. Whooping cough while annoying to adults is very serious in young children and DEADLY to infants. Newborns cannot get their first set of shots until they are 6-8 weeks old. And the effectivness of the whooping cough vaccination is not "solid" enough until they are about 1 year when they have had enough of the series.
Because of that no one in my family, or any of my friends for that matter are allowed around my baby girl (due in 8 weeks!) without having been vaccinated FIRST.
They just shut down an entire middle school due to an outbreak out here. Adults think they have an annoying cough until the "whooping sound" sets in. By then they are past their most contagious period (the first 21 days) and have spread it to loved ones. I hear new heartbreaking stories every day. Diseases that we have not seen for 30-40 years are coming back in the form of outbreaks because people believe Jenny McCarthy over their doctors!
I am sure I will get bashed! But whatever, it is what I believe. And if you don't cry after reading Kailah's story, I don't know what to say...
http://shotbyshot.org/pertussis/kaliahs-story/
"Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal; it is the Courage to Continue that Counts." -- Winston Churchill
OH and NO I do not believe Jenny McCarthy over my doctor. I believe MY PERSONAL RESEARCH. I believe that DOCTORS get PAID to push vaccines so their opinions are very much slanted. Big Pharma and doctors go hand in hand. THAT should be very obvious.
how do you know that I don't?
We have our own garden, we raise our own pigs, chickens, rabbits, and fish for our own consumption. I don't wear makeup. I would show you a pic, but my hair is a mess because I haven't even brushed it yet. I make my own laundry detergent. Your argument about all of those things just won't work on me. Others? Sure, but nope not me. I am doing everything that I can to keep my family healthy.
And yes I can send pics of my garden, animals, and fish to prove my facts.
Oh and fast food? YUCK Too much carbs and way too much fat.
Quoting Kaseyrose21:Yes, I am comfortable with most of the vaccinations. Some I cannot get myself and don't. I don't agree with the chemicals argument. If that is your stance stop eating any food that is not grown in your back yard. Never eat fast food again. Don't wear make up, there are tons of chemicals and bi-products in those. Don't use dish soap. Stop washing your closes. I could go on, but I have to get back to work. I will stop by later and respond to any other questions/comments then.
Quoting Ireallydontcare:
This was from 2008. They have added more since then. So, like I said, if you are comfortable with all these metals and other "things" being injected into your babies, then go right a head. I will take care of mine, you all take care of yours.
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Really? I do not understand people who make comments such as the below. I understood and was agreeing with you until you went off. Never have I said I will live as a hermit. Never have I said that it is your job to keep me safe. But I will not sit back and say fuck it as babies die because of adults ignorance. We can have a thoughtful discussion without this crap. I selectively vaccinate myself so I understand. I believe we over medicate our kids so I get it. But the ones that are preventable, I thinks its awful that the most helpless in our society are allowed to get sick and die because of a paranoid few.
Quoting AMBG825:
Well I selectively vax. My kids have had some. They will not get others. That being said, daycare is not an issue as we don't use it so no problem keeping them out of daycare. But I'll be damned if I'm not going to send my child to school because you're paranoid. If you are that ill that you, being statistically more dangerous to my child than my child is to you, have to dictate the health decisions I make for my family ...I'm going to suggest a bubble to wrap yourself in.
Polio? Tell that flu like symptom stuff to someone else. Remember President Roosevelt? I am not buying it. Polio can be very severe. While your percentage of only 1% is quoted, if it is YOUR ( general) child, it is 100%.
Quoting Ireallydontcare:Which disease is so deadly? Measles? Nope. Mumps? Nope Chicken Pox? Nope. Even polio IF IF IF contracted most people will only have flu-like symptoms, iF it is contracted at all. In about 95 percent of polio cases, infection from the polio virus causes no symptoms or serious effects. In about 5 percent of cases, the polio virus manifests in a mild form (abortive polio) with flu-like symptoms, in a non-paralytic form (aseptic meningitis) or in a severe form called paralytic polio. People who have minor or non-paralytic forms recover completely. Paralytic polio is the most serious type of polio. Paralytic polio causes paralysis. Of that 5 percent only 1% of people "catch" the paralytic polio. So even though our chances are SOOOOOOOOO minute in catching polio at all, it is even MORE unlikely HIGHLY unlikely that you will get the paralytic variety.
So which disease is so deadly that it wouldn't be better to gain a natural LIFE-LONG immunity? Rather than having to re-inject ourselves with all these toxic metals and other foreign DNA?
You do what you want, and I will continue to do what I want. The government has no right to tell me to force me to inject fetal DNA, COW DNA or any metal into my child. PERIOD.
I don't expect anyone to keep my children safe that is my job. We as parents ultimately choose which risks we are willing to accept and which we aren't, they aren't always going to be the same.
Quoting Tanya93:It's selfish people expecting others to keep their kids safe because their precious little snowflake shouldn't be immunized.
No, it is not that at all. KoolAid drinker I see?
How much research have you done?
Like I would get an honest answer...
I follow my doctor
I follow my doctor
I follow my doctor........... Is this your mantra?
Quoting Tanya93:It's selfish people expecting others to keep their kids safe because their precious little snowflake shouldn't be immunized.
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Quoting Tanya93:
It's selfish people expecting others to keep their kids safe because their precious little snowflake shouldn't be immunized.
If your precious little snowflake was injured by a vaccine you would be singing quite a different tune. People in glass houses and all...
Be thankful your children are able to be vaccinated and have suffered no ill affects from those vaccinations. It isn't the case for everyone.
That is simply not true.
Quoting paknari:
I have to say that I agree with you. I'm sure I will get bashed but the fact is, unvaccinated people give these diseases a place to mutate and cause the vaccines to no longer be as effective. If a disease has no host to go to then it eventually dies out for the most part. Having large pockets of unvaccinated children in with vaccinated children will eventually cause huge problems. Unfortunately there will always be people who decide to not vaccinate and the res of us just have to keep our fingers crossed.
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and what "generation" are you?
- Kaseyrose21
on May. 9, 2012 at 3:33 PM