I agree with your post. There are risks either way, but one should rely upon medical sources of information for medical decisions.
Vacination is not a cure all. Not much is said about the drawbacks, but they do exist. I think that a good frame of health is most important, with fresh foods, as illness like mumps and measles are usually of short duration if the patient is strong and well.
we almost agree.
mumps and measles can be dangerous for little kids at times.
also, the measles virus can stay in you for years and then resurface again and you got shingles in your old age.
shingles can be very difficult for some people.
so.....I tend to take the vaccinations. I realize there are some risks with both the active and sometimes the inactive agents. So, I do not push other people to get all the vaccinations, but if they ask my opinion I tell them I get the shots myself...
at least we have these options available to us!!!
the most powerful and richest kings of just a couple hundred years ago....and Napoleon and all the rest...never had these opportunities
In the 60’s and early 70’s, before the vaccine, there were half a million cases a year, and 500 measles deaths a year in the US - about 1 out of every 1000 cases. Judge risk against that.
vaccination is not a cure all. it is too often oversold as a cure all. by medical folks we non-medical folks are often made to feel we have no right to question, much less refuse.
personally i laways like to look at how docs treat themselves. i am amazed at the percentage of how many do not decide to get flu shots each year. no less amazed at how many admit if they got cancer, how many would refuse chemo.
just as enlightening as the fact as a group, public school teachers send their kids to private schools at higher rates than the general public.