[I cannot think of a name]

What is it about people that defend vaccines and this need to confuse the issue?

Of course I had a polio vaccination, ditto for small pox, diphtheria, and one or two others.

No, we weren't vaccinated against what were considered to be CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES. This was the 50’s, the middle of the baby boom, and a huge number of young kids. And pretty much EVERY kid I went to school with got the measles, mumps, and chickenpox. And not one had any kind of serious problem with them. It was just considered part of childhood - no big thing at all. I guess there just weren't enough big drug companies around to make these childhood illnesses into a big deal.

[Mastador1]

During the 1950s an annual average of greater than 500,000 cases of measles and nearly 500 deaths due to measles were reported in the United States ...

Your results may vary.

What is it about people that defend vaccines and this need to confuse the issue?

Maybe the fact that before a child shows enough symptoms to be isolated at home they may be contagious and infect countless others through their interactions. So actually it's not only your children your making the decision for, now is it. So who is really confusing the issue?

[terycarl]

And pretty much EVERY kid I went to school with got the measles, mumps, and chickenpox. And not one had any kind of serious problem with them. It was just considered part of childhood -

I was a little before your time..I had measles in the early 1940's and they posted a Quarantined sign on our door...no one in, no one out.

The total number of kids that you and I combined went to school with had to be miniscule....however, when you read statistics you will note that THOUSANDS of kids died from these "childhood diseases"