Posted on 06/16/2006 9:13:55 AM PDT by Pyro7480
What about the people who rely on science in an effort to not put their children at risk, but then they become disabled or die as a result of a vaccine reaction?
Is there sadness there as well or are they just statistics at the end of the bell curve and got the bad break-- oh well, poor you???
What is called junk science... And will result in preventable death...
I guess there is neither vaccine nor cure for terminal stupidity...
You can easily get a waiver from getting vaccines.
As I said there are less risks in vaccines than in the illness...
But you know what? Put your children at risk... But don't start to cry when they die or are disabled for life...
Your choice... Your responsability!
I'll grant you it was a cut and paste job.
And nothing about feeling superior - simply a right to make an informed choice.
If you want to vacinate, great.
If you don't, that's fine as well.
And you can be sued if something happens...
Your coice, your risk...
Don't you mean "If it gave straight, Anglo white males cancer..."?
As long as everyone else remains vaccinated, you're fine not to. Just admit that.
Vaccines are never 100% effective. For example, all 3 of my kids got the chicken pox vaccine, and my son still got chicken pox.
My daughters are at high risk for complications due to chicken pox, and I was very glad they didn't get it.
For any of those on this thread who are at least a little skeptical, you owe it to yourself to become informed.
This website: www.nvic.org is a great place to start.
I'm sorry that your nephew was injured, but such severe reactions only happen in about 1 in 140,000 doses of the DPT vaccine, or 0.0007%. The fact that he was so supremely unfortunate as to have such a severe reaction is a very sad thing, but the odds of such a reaction are so minuscule and the benefits of using the vaccine so great that you can hardly say that his sad case is an argument against using vaccines.
I thought the same... If they are stupid enough, then they deserve it!
Nature is brutal to the stupid...
I also remember the joy when the vaccine was introduced... And the summer fear before that...
But to that family whose child was the 1 in 140,000, it's 1 in 1 for them...
It used to be that we frequently saw children in wheelchairs.
My dad talks of fears of the public pool, growing up in the Arizona heat.
Not true. Texas has all three types of exemptions.
Parents may simply supply an affidavit signed by the applicant or, if a minor, by the applicant's parent or guardian stating that the applicant declines immunization for reasons of conscience, including a religious belief. A form must be obtained at the Health Department.
This was true as of a couple years ago.
I don't think they are.
You didn't admit what I asked you to admit. :~)
People get away without immunizations precisely because they are living in a vaccinated society that won't pass it on. If Polio were still common as it was, would you let your unvaccinated child play in the pool?
The vaccine will have its own risks (including death), the disease it is supposed to prevent is relatively rare (compared to the childhood diseases for other vaccines), the cure for the disease is relatively effective.
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