Posted on 02/02/2015 10:07:40 AM PST by GIdget2004
Less liberal lunatics in MS.
We do have kids and let me tell you these people are bat-crap statist crazy. You’d swear the way they talk vaccines are AN ABSOLUTE GOOD (tm) that can only be refused by stark raving nutters. I got into it once with some woman about the CDC guidelines....turns out she worked in the vaccine industry, and then admitted that even SHE didn’t follow the CDC guidelines.
How about this...a vaccine is a tool that, like everything else in life, has certain risks and benefits. Someone may decide rationally that for their kid the benefit outweighs the risk and goes to get the shot. Another parent may think that her kid has higher than average risk factors and that the risk of the injection is higher than the risks associated with the disease.
In order for this eminently rational system to work it has to rely on parental choice, but for some of these statist goons that’s not good enough. No, I put their kid at risk for measles or whatever so I have to be forced to give my kid the shot.
It is inevitable that terrible diseases will enter the “open boarder” United States when our corrupt government is inviting “bat eating” foreigners to come over. In a sense, they are creating a crisis to come to the rescue with the solution...forced immunizations. So yes, this is “naked government force”.
According to the gov-media complex, the problem is not disease laden illegals coming across our borders.
It’s people exercising freedom and parents exercising their parental rights.
I’m amazed at how many on this board mistrust the government on virtually everything, but are willing to drink the Kool-Aid on vaccines.
Why would that be the ONE topic on which they choose not
to lie to us?
Great point! Perhaps issues like this will reveal people’s ultimate allegiance. Do we trust in man (government, caesar), or do we trust in God? Men can do good things, but only when inspired by goodness itself (God). I am not against medicine or technology, but I certainly do not trust in these things above and beyond God.
I think I might move to Montana...for the weather of course.
Bottom line: It’s free and you can lose Welfare benefits if you don’t have one (or they think so anyway)
A hundred or so years ago, many people prayed not to get polio. Or smallpox. Yet they did anyway.
God helps those who help themselves. But if you’d prefer we go back to the days of rampant polio and smallpox....
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. There were many people who were afraid of the smallpox vaccine when it first came out. But it basically eradicated smallpox. Via science. Are you arguing that it didn’t?
Your argument to me is akin to the man stranded on a roof during a flood. A man with a boat comes along, but the man on the roof says “thats okay, I’m praying that God will rescue me.”. Then a man with a helicopter comes along and the man on the roof says “thats okay, I’m praying that God will rescue me.” The waters continue to rise, and the man drowns. When he reaches the pearly gates he says, “Lord, why didn’t you save me?”. And the Lord says, “well I sent a boat and a helicopter.”
Yes in fact.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
So..... don’t eat too much. Don’t drink too much. Take care of your body. And that includes vaccinations.
I don’t think it is a secular myth. God demands prayer, but he also demands action. God isn’t a God who helps those who sit on their tails all day waiting for divine intervention. God expects you to at least put in a little effort on your part.
I do not agree with your analogy. I do not think that having reasonable doubt about vaccinations is “doing nothing”. There are many things that can be done including closed borders, cleanliness, diet, holistic medicine, praying, etc.
1 Fleshalonians 6:66
All I know is that many diseases that terrified people a hundred years ago with the possibility of a random, gruesome death, or gross disfigurement, are now gone. Eradicated. That wasn’t through accident. It was through vaccinations.
Last time I enrolled kids in a new school district (not too many years back), you HAD to provide immunization records and proof of residency or be left out. In other words, there was no option other than to be immunized, consistent with common sense public health policies.
In the general shift toward more and more regulation by all forms of government, why would “must have” immunization regulations been relaxed??? Remember that those making school district policy are the same general crowd that maintains the pop tart chewed to rough pistol shape is a weapons offense...
SpiderPig theory: relaxing school immunization requirements ensures that illegal alien kids have no impediment to fast track enrollment.
Superimpose those maps of no immunization with maps of illegal kid school enrollment and see a strong correlation.
Still waiting to see this correlation in the media...
This is interesting because Mississippi also has one or the lowest rates of autism.
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