Vaccines Represent Progress, Not Conspiracy
Modern medicine is not your mother's medicine or your grandparent's medicine. Vaccines work to prevent a lot of serious childhood diseases. Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Whooping Cough, Polio, Flu Shots, Shingles, Pneumonia TB and other diseases can be prevented or the risk of contracting the disease can be greatly reduced by proper vaccinations.
Most folks would like to send their kids to school where they are as safe as possible. One public health measure is to keep kids home until they have had their vaccinations for childhood diseases completed.
I was born just before the first polio vaccine was discovered. On a hot day my Mom was scared of letting me run under a sprinkler for fear of catching polio and possibly dying. The March of Dimes was a huge success in developing the first and eventually better more effective vaccines. By 1962 the oral vaccine developed by Alfred Sabin was distributed and the world got a handle on defeating a another deadly disease.
If you don't like vaccines, don't have children, get yourself fixed. Vaccinations are important to kids and your parents should be thanked for getting you vaccinated. Kids at risk for childhood diseases because vaccinations are ignored place themselves at risk and are a risk to others. Spreading infectious diseases can kill people. Organic food, can't hurt, might help somethings but it is no replacement for following good public health policies.
Maybe you don't trust the idea that living a longer healthier life is a good thing, or having your kids survive infancy and live longer better lives. In the good old days, the dice game was fixed and it wasn't fixed in a good way.
In some ways I think this issue exists because people have it so good and so easy that they ignore history and think they have already been vaccinated from from having to really think about stuff.
Most folks would like to send their kids to school where they are as safe as possible. One public health measure is to keep kids home until they have had their vaccinations for childhood diseases completed.
I was born just before the first polio vaccine was discovered. On a hot day my Mom was scared of letting me run under a sprinkler for fear of catching polio and possibly dying. The March of Dimes was a huge success in developing the first and eventually better more effective vaccines. By 1962 the oral vaccine developed by Alfred Sabin was distributed and the world got a handle on defeating a another deadly disease.
If you don't like vaccines, don't have children, get yourself fixed. Vaccinations are important to kids and your parents should be thanked for getting you vaccinated. Kids at risk for childhood diseases because vaccinations are ignored place themselves at risk and are a risk to others. Spreading infectious diseases can kill people. Organic food, can't hurt, might help somethings but it is no replacement for following good public health policies.
Maybe you don't trust the idea that living a longer healthier life is a good thing, or having your kids survive infancy and live longer better lives. In the good old days, the dice game was fixed and it wasn't fixed in a good way.
In some ways I think this issue exists because people have it so good and so easy that they ignore history and think they have already been vaccinated from from having to really think about stuff.
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