Posted on 11/07/2011 10:01:35 AM PST by DemforBush
Authorities and doctors are warning parents who want to avoid chicken pox vaccines for their children that a new mail-order scheme to share lollipops licked by children infected with the disease as a way to create immunity in their kids is not only unsafe but illegal...
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As opposed to the vaccine? Absolutely. Same with the Flu btw.
Some diseases make sensible vaccines. Chickenpox is not one of them.
one of their packages busts open in the process, which is something that happens all the time, and it’s the problem of every employee in that facility, every person that has mail processed through that facility, the family of every person that works in that facility and so on. It then becomes the problem of everyone in the postal region.
So, even though it’s not random, the consequence of distributing a communicable disease through the mail has the potential to effect more people than the unknowing innocent child of the numbskull that decided to place everyone else at risk just to stick it to the evil medical-industrial complex.
Funny thing, when I was a kid, my parents tried to keep us safe, not infect us with something that could mutate and kill us.
When I was growing up parents would encourage exposure to chicken pox through get togethers with friends who had infected kids. This would inoculate the children who caught the disease from catching it as an adult, when chicken pox would be much more dangerous. However, the FB sharing of lolipops is just sick IMO.
Shingles in adulthood from childhood exposure to chicken pox is much rarer and usually much less severe if that exposure was through vaccination rather than an actual bout of chicken pox.
You can also get a vaccination for Shingles to ‘re charge’ your immune system against the chicken pox virus. It is recommended for anyone 60 years or older who was exposed to chicken pox as a youth.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/09/01/12896.aspx
The vaccine is CAUSING the uptick in shingles.
OMG, sometimes I marvel at the stuff FReepers will fall for just because they read it on Yahoo.
Here is a link to the Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Find-A-Pox-Party-Near-You/191922217552208?sk=wall
If one is not on FB, you probably won’t see it. However, there are a big 218 people who like this page. 218!!!!!!
Hobby Lobby has 275,693. Even the Zombie Apocalypse page has over 100,000.
People, every group has extremists. 218 people on a FB page = the extremists. FR is falling for a non-story, again.
Ok, that right there is funny!
Parents doing things like this not so much. I had chicken pox as a kid, caught it from my brother. (Thanks Bro!) I was uncomfortable for a few days, he was deathly ill.
Having nursed my husband through a case of the shingles I can only say I am glad my nieces will not have to endure that.
You really need to seek out primary sources on this kind of thing..
" what kind of a dumb@ss parent/care giver would order these.", but THEN again they did vote for ZERO.
If you read the linked thread, you’ll see how chickenpox morphs into shingles later in life for many people, and you can read the horror stories of the pain involved with that. The vaccine has not been proven to be as much of a danger as chickenpox. Lots of tin foil going on with the whole vaccine thing.
Not as rare as you seem to think. It’s not a rare disease. Of course, you can get a vaccination for it—but oops, that would be one of those e-vile vaccinations. Better to suffer, I guess.
Looks like a shaky source.
No, I think you have the wrong Gary Goldman. It’s a pretty common name.
Dr. Goldman serves as a reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Vaccine, The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), Expert Review of Vaccines (ERV), Expert Review of Dermatology (ERD), Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV), Epidemiology and Infection, and British Medical Journal (BMJ).
I guess you have never heard of a 'chicken pox party'?
And you assume I am:
1, not aware of the risks of shingles.
2, in agreement with you about the risks of the vaccine.
3, in agreement with you about the risks of chicken pox.
Calling me a ‘tinfoil’ hat, is not at all productive.
I believe vaccines should be restricted to illnesses that are:
1, lifethreatening.
2, with substantive protection factor.
Chickenpox fails on both counts, ergo, I don’t believe that chicken pox should be vaccinated. Others, if they choose to do so, are very much welcome to, but count me and my family out.
Chickenpox CAN be life-threatening. Idiots like this, and idiots like the selfish dolts who allow their infected children to infect everyone else are also life-threatening. I shudder to think of the people with compromised immune systems, both children and adults, who would suffer from this kind of thinking.
http://www.drgoldmanonline.com/
You can see on this site, same photo of him, where he went to school. It isn't surprising he doesn't list his school on his own page, because I think most people would agree that paying for an online PhD program is not credible at all..
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