Vaccinations

one of the best videos I have seen on the subject

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo

Penn & Teller certainly have a way with words. I used to enjoy that show a lot.

Good visual

Pretty simple really.. But I will admit when my kids were young and getting the first set of shots my wife and I were a little apprehensive from hearing some of the stuff going on in relation to vaccines.

There is an Ottawa daycare that is promising a "vaccine-free environment" for kids, and that public health is not to happy about it. I simply replied "is Jenny McCarthy the CEO?" :)

Another good one I saw and agreed with.

"What's that?

My son can't bring a peanut butter sandwhich to school because someone might be allergic?

But... Your unvaccinated child can bring:

Chicken Pox
Whooping Cough
Measles
Mumps"

Everyone who has any doubt about the effectiveness of vaccines needs to watch this video. The media are trying to whip up a sensationalist view with editorial fearmongering to sell papers and advertising. It's absolutely irresponsible and ,in virtually all cases,feeding into the ignorance of a gullible public. When we were kids,if a cousin,sibling or friends got measles or chicken pox,our parents made sure all of us kids were exposed. The conventional wisdom was that exposure fed into our immune systems and virtually guaranteed that these diseases would never appear again. It was primitive,but,it worked brilliantly. Our parents made sure we were vaccinated against Smallpox,Diptheria,Polio,Typhoid and Tetnus when we were small children with a booster early in our teen years which served us well to this day. In a way,we've failed,miserably,with following through with the same philosophies with our children,so,it's kind of our own fault for raising a generation of wimps that feel it necessary to "biubble-wrap" the grandkids.

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Originally Posted by TurkeyRookie

There is an Ottawa daycare that is promising a "vaccine-free environment" for kids, and that public health is not to happy about it. I simply replied "is Jenny McCarthy the CEO?" :)

Another good one I saw and agreed with.

"What's that?

My son can't bring a peanut butter sandwhich to school because someone might be allergic?

But... Your unvaccinated child can bring:

Chicken Pox
Whooping Cough
Measles
Mumps"

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Lol, so true.

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Originally Posted by TurkeyRookie

There is an Ottawa daycare that is promising a "vaccine-free environment" for kids, and that public health is not to happy about it.

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This is fantastic. That way all of the sane parents will know where not to send their kids.

There are people incl. children out there who cannot get vaccinated for medical reasons (e.g. immunocompromised).
Parents who don't want their children vaccinated for some BS reason should not be allowed to bring their offspring to any puplic place (school, hospital, doctor's office, playground, mall, etc.) where they could infect anyone. They should also pay all health expenses related to vaccine preventable diseases if their child gets sick or infects anyone.

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Originally Posted by Waftrudnir

There are people incl. children out there who cannot get vaccinated for medical reasons (e.g. immunocompromised).
Parents who don't want their children vaccinated for some BS reason should not be allowed to bring their offspring to any puplic place (school, hospital, doctor's office, playground, mall, etc.) where they could infect anyone. They should also pay all health expenses related to vaccine preventable diseases if their child gets sick or infects anyone.

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Exactly, if every person is vaccinated but those who cannot for medical reasons then those who cannot will not get sick because there are no carriers.

I think a lot of these anti-vaccination people should take a drip to the developing world and watch children dying of curable and preventable diseases, maybe they will figure it out when they watch a mother bury there kid because they got measles.