Furthermore I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued

[kid_lit_fan]

I am livid at the thought that infants and immuno-compromised may die from other people's ignorance. I'm not going to link to the STUPID list of 50 reasons not to vaccinate. It's full of vagueness and out-and-out lies. Every point that says "There have been no studies" or "there have been no tests" is an out-and-out lie. Anything that says "This

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[elemirion]

I had measles, Mumps and Chicken Pox, still sort of have scars from them too. I didn't get any of the others because I was vaccinated against them. I think I got a new strain of Whooping cough but I had been vaccinated and boostered against it when I was little so I didn't get the one that had been going around. I rarely get flu anymore because I get flu shots. People are creating ticking time bombs, there will come a point where those diseases will resurge and they won't be able to stop it in time, and the fools will still get them because they won't take the drugs they need to stop it...Ugh!!!

[kid_lit_fan]

I got whooping cough boosters a few years ago because Webb, Dickens Fair's EMT, announced that it was prevalent again at the mandatory morning meeting. The next year, he wasn't allowed to make the announcement because "he scared some kids." It would have been so easy for parents to say "Oh, honey, it's OK,, that's why we got you shots for that." But they'd rather not HEAR that it's possible for a small child to die of whooping cough that actually PREVENT it.

The first few years of Dickens, I used to be home at least one weekend a year, coughing until I almost blacked out from whatever flu was going around. Then I started getting flu shots.

[quirkytizzy]

Holy crap - the whole "rather than not hear it's fatal than prevent it" - god, sometimes shit like that makes me go "Maybe you almost deserve to lose your kid and then live the rest of your life with the guilt, which will hopefully drive you to an early grave-"

Except then the kid dies and that's not good, either.

Ugh.

[quirkytizzy]

THis is EXACTLY how I feel about it. And it's angering - truly angering - that parents would put their children at risk of death for such easily preventable diseases these days. All for what? To be trendy like Jenny McCarthy? So dangerous. So upsetting.