“It is the hot water, the soap, and better hygiene of today’s world.” ...keeping polio at bay.
Then in our pre-indoor plumbing history it should have been much much worse but the great killers were yellow fever and influenza.
Where the better hygiene would have made a real difference was in the handling of the diapers of babies receiving the oral live vaccine by adults.
“At one point vaccinations were about killing diseases, now they are more a service to pharma companies than to the American child.”
Nonsense! My child not choking to death with whooping cough or spending a life time crippled is worth more to me than all the financial gain any company could garner, my child not being a carrier of disease is important to everyone especially, ESPECIALLY those unvaccinated children.
and my friend’s that lost their baby 24 hours after vaccinations would strongly disagree with you.
It’s a tough choice trying to do what is best for your child. The best for now and for the future. But it’s a choice that parents need to make based on their convictions and study.
As an adult in college I had to twice take the measles vaccination because I didn’t have proof I’d had it previously. (outbreaks in two different states, 3 years apart) 13 years later when I was pregnant I was told I didn’t have immunity to it (did you have the immunization I was asked)and to stay away from kids who had the measles. Now, with three full rounds of vaccinations in my life - why wouldn’t I be protected from it? Why did my brothers get the mumps when we were all kids, and I didn’t? Why have I never had chicken pox, even though I have babysat kids with it (unknowingly). There’s just nothing certain with the vaccination - they think it works based on herd....but it doesn’t always.
There’s just too many personal and close circle friends that have serious issues from vaccinations that make it, in my opinion, an unsafe option.
I’d rather build up the immunity in my child naturally, avoid the side effects of vaccines (there are many besides autism) and deal with childhood diseases as they come.
You are welcome to choose differently, but you are not welcome to decide what I do for my kid.