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January 2012 Moms
So what do you really think about vaccinations?
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Re: So what do you really think about vaccinations?
well said
Baby 2 EDD 7-18-14
The problem with "I'll choose for my kid, you choose for yours" is that we can't choose to do our own parenting by never letting our kiddos hang out with you or your kiddos, because you don't broadcast the fact that your family is a walking bio-hazard zone to everyone you interact with on a daily basis. That darling 7 week old COULDN'T be vaccinated. He got sick when he was 3 weeks old. And he got sick from some stranger who decided that his life was not as important as their "freedom" to choose to not get vaccinated. I am not sure I could live with myself if I discovered I had killed a baby by making the decision not to vaccinate myself or my kiddos--but hey, if you can, then I guess you will continue to just rock on with life.
But don't kid yourself that this is a personal decision that you alone should have the power to make, unless you do live on an island with only your family and choose to NEVER interact with the rest of the world. If you live in a society, you have to make certain sacrifices for the good of the society as a whole. Vaccinating healthy people to both ensure that they don't get sick in the future and to give herd immunity to the chronically ill and babies who are too young to be vaccinated is the price you should have to pay to live in modern society.
ALSO--whoever said that chicken pox vaccine could raise the risk of adult shingles is just ABSOLUTELY incorrect!! I had chicken pox as a child and then got shingles as a teenager and it nearly ruined my senior year of high school. Stabbing, intense nerve pain for WEEKS on end so bad that you can't wear clothes and can't sleep is nothing to joke around about. Shingles killed my grandfather. You absolutely, without a doubt, cannot get shingles from the chicken pox vaccine. You can only get shingles if you have actually had the chicken pox illness. Even if I had to get my kid boosters every single year, instead of a booster every 10 years like they are now recommending, I will NEVER knowingly allow that horrible virus to enter her body. The chicken pox themselves were not horrible--made for a miserable week back in kindergarten, but then they were over. But shingles comes on with a vengeance, and can attack the nerves again and again, causing permanent damage. Not something to screw around with.
who are you and where did you come from anyway?
sad. I thought you were cool :-/
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You thought I was cool and yet we are all dumb and this board sucks? If this topic and board are so "dumb" why would you waste your time responding to anything?
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