Posted on 11/19/2018 12:36:26 PM PST by NRx
Chickenpox has taken hold of a school in North Carolina where many families claim religious exemption from vaccines.
Cases of chickenpox have been multiplying at the Asheville Waldorf School, which serves children from nursery school to sixth grade in Asheville, N.C. About a dozen infections grew to 28 at the beginning of the month. By Friday, there were 36, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported.
The outbreak ranks as the state’s worst since the chickenpox vaccine became available more than 20 years ago. Since then, the two-dose course has succeeded in limiting the highly contagious disease that once affected 90 percent of Americans — a public health breakthrough.
The school is a symbol of the small but strong movement against the most effective means of preventing the spread of infectious diseases. The percentage of children under 2 years old who haven’t received any vaccinations has quadrupled since 2001, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Like the Disneyland measles outbreak in 2015, the flare-up demonstrates the real-life consequences of a shadowy debate fueled by junk science and fomented by the same sort of Twitter bots and trolls that spread misinformation during the 2016 presidential election. And it shows how a seemingly fringe view can gain currency in a place like Asheville, a funky, year-round resort town nestled between the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains.
“The school follows immunization requirements put in place by the state board of education, but also recognizes that a parent’s decision to immunize their children happens before they enter school,” the school explained in a statement to Blue Ridge Public Radio.
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My kids were vaccinated but 2 out of 3 got very mild cases of the “chicken pops.” They weren’t nearly as miserable as Hubs and I when we were kids and got all the childhood illnesses.
Idiot Yuppies never heard of Shingles?
Smallpox, polio, DPT were pretty much the only vaccines when I was a kid-and kids were not given more than one at a time, over a period of months-it was the same when my cub was little-kids were not literally attacked with multiple vaccines all at once doing possible harm to their developing immune system. I exposed my cub deliberately to chickenpox at age 5-same as my mom did with me.
I have never had shingles, and I am not vaccinated for it-my immune system works fine-I take the right supplements and stay properly exposed to the environment to keep it that way without unnatural substances. I also do not agree that kids automatically should be bombarded with multiple vaccines-let the patents decide what is right for their kid-after all, it is their kid and their choice-not the government’s. There are a lot of parents out here who do not not have kids vaccinated for chickenpox, meningitis, HPV and some other things-but there are also very few kids in the public school, too-most kids are homeschooled or attend the small country Christian school nearby...
Chicken pox is not measles.
Sure it is not fun, and my kids got the vaccines. But it’s not the end of the world.
Now when you get into mumps and measles...that stuff can do some significant damage.
I had a mild case of shingles. Boy, that was not fun.
I don’t know a single person who had a natural case of chickenpox who has had shingles-or been vaccinated for it, for that matter-this is a somewhat remote rural area, but plenty of people simply don’t believe in the nanny government mantra that one size fits all-that doesn’t make us idiots-yuppie or otherwise-it is merely a different opinion and choice...
Asheville is a queer and dyke sanctuary as well as home to Code Pink
The Tennessee side of the mountain is better
“Asheville is a queer and dyke sanctuary as well as home to Code Pink”
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How on earth does that relate to chicken pox?
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All 9 kids have a religious exemption and have Rock solid immune systems (by God’s grace). Getting ChiPox may be important for building other immunities. Trump was right! Many vaccinations are scams
Getting chickenpox is necessary for getting shingles.
Adult chickenpox, which is largely - but not completely - eliminated from getting the disease, is painful and causes about 20 deaths annually.
So, net-net-net, it's a toss up between vaccinating your kid and risking adult chickenpox with a small probability of death, versus infecting them as kids and risking a 33% chance of adult pain via shingles.
They may be Idiot yuppies, but it seems like a reasonable trade-off...we aren't talking about cancer.
What is bothersome (to me at least) about this story is the depth of intel the government has on this little town and school. Seriously, where is the federal govt's Constitutional right to know about whether or not you've immunized your child? Or, whether or not you opt-out on religious grounds? Who the f is collecting this info, and what other nefarious purposes is it feeding?
No argument from me on that.
I do think it is a community’s right to require that children in a community school are vaccinated.
Obviously (at least to me) religious and medical reasons are acceptable exceptions.
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BFD!
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The purpose of all vaccines is to spread disease.
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>> “How did us old people ever survive?” <<
By not getting vaccines.
I still do it that way.
I never got chicken pox and was never vaccinated for it. I’ve been exposed to it tons. As a kid in school, I was envious of the other kids in the class.who did get them because they got to go to the beach. The ocean had natural healing properties. To this day, I’ve never had them.
I had measles as a kid. Between the high fever and the itching, it was definitely an uncomfortable experience, but my mom took excellent care of me. She kept a bottle of witchhazel in the fridge and gave me regular rub downs to combat the fever. And, she put it on cotton batten to put on my eyes. That felt so good!
A few years later, all of us kids got whooping cough. Now that one was rough. One of my sisters coughed for months after that, and had to sleep with her upper body elevated. Mom had to put couch cushions under her mattress to keep it elevated.
Immunizations? Few. Smallpox, polio, diphtheria, tetanus. That’s it. As an adult, I’m very glad to have the lifetime immunities conferred through having the actual diseases.
The lifetime immunities is where the immunizations fall short. As an adult, you are left exposed when you’ve had immunizations unless you continue to have booster shots.
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Stupid parents = Vaccinated kids with all the attendant maladies.
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Mine was in an eye.
I’m sure the information is useful to big pharma and some docs to build advertising strategies and scare stories -to sell more vaccines/drugs and pushing for more government mandates/demands for parents-that is nefarious-but I want to know why this info isn’t protected by a privacy law-maybe someone should sue...
Its certainly not any of government’s business.
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