I’ve known for some time that the accepted practice is for newborns to be assigned a social security number before they even leave the hospital, and I thought that was scary, but a conversation I had with a young mother recently left me appalled.
She said that her baby had to go to the hospital because he was having seizures.
“Why,” I asked, “is he having seizures?”
“It’s because of the high fever he gets every time he has an immunization shot,” she replied. “It happened last time, too.”
“Why,” I prodded, “if he has seizures every time he gets one of these shots, do you keep getting them?”
“Oh,” she said, sounding alarmed, “if he doesn’t have a complete record of these immunizations by the time he’s old enough for preschool, they won’t accept him!”
God help us.
That has been taking place for some time now.