Jey12
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2010
Is this debate really still going on this thread?
I'm pro vaccine, some of you aren't. You (general "you" for anti vaccine parents, no one in particular) can throw up studies and you tube videos all day long showing studies of the long term and side effects of vaccines. I can toss up studies and you tube videos all day showing studies of the long term and side effects of viruses. You see the small percentage of kids harmed by a vaccine and even a small percent is too high for you to take that chance. I see a high likely hood of serious complications from a preventable virus, and a small percentage of a vaccine side effect is worth taking to avoid the higher chance if exposed to a virus my child could be seriously ill. You see the possibility of lifelong complications due to a vaccine side effect. I see lifelong complications in my older relatives that survived the outbreaks of polio, measles, mumps, etc...
You as a parent have done your research and are deciding not to vaccinate based on what you feel is best for your child. This does not make you a bad parent. I as a parent have done my research and have decided to vaccinate based on what I feel is best for my child. I am not a bad parent. You aren't going to change my mind. I am not going to change your mind. You want your child to be healthy and live a long happy life. I want the same. You feel vaccinating could possibly hinder that from happening, and I feel a serious virus that could have been prevented could hinder my child from achieving this. In the data you see an increase in illnesses, chronic and other childhood issues such as obesity and asthma that could be linked to vaccines. In that same data I see environmental issues, the ability for increased reporting and data collection via computers and the internet, additives and hormones in foods, and lack of exercise for the same issues.
The thing as a pro vaccine parent I would like anti vaccine parents to understand is I feel like I am taking a chance with my child by her being around unvaccinated kids. Although the chances of her catching a mutated form of an illness she's been vaccinated for from an unvaccinated child are very very small. In my mind, and from the data and research I've done the chances of this happening are comparable to the chances I took of a side effect when she was vaccinated. So please understand that when you say a small chance is too much when we're talking about the health of our children, many pro vaccine parents feel the same way about their child being exposed to yours. This is why this discussion has no end and gets so heated.
At the end of the day some things are the same with pro and anti vaccine parents. We both love our kids, we both want what's best for them, we both want to keep them safe and happy, and we both have done our research. Please don't give me the line of the more educated you are the less likely you are to vaccinate. That's a line of you know what from both sides of the debate. I would venture to guess the likelyhood of vaccinating or not is pretty equal no matter your level of education. As you can see both sides can look at the exact same data and come up with very different conclusions. This speaks nothing of the level of education on either side. I will continue to vaccinate my child, you will continue to not vaccinate yours. All we can hope is that we've made the right decision for our children and that they grow up to one day make the best parenting decisions they can based on their ability to research and interpret certain data and life experiences.
I'm pro vaccine, some of you aren't. You (general "you" for anti vaccine parents, no one in particular) can throw up studies and you tube videos all day long showing studies of the long term and side effects of vaccines. I can toss up studies and you tube videos all day showing studies of the long term and side effects of viruses. You see the small percentage of kids harmed by a vaccine and even a small percent is too high for you to take that chance. I see a high likely hood of serious complications from a preventable virus, and a small percentage of a vaccine side effect is worth taking to avoid the higher chance if exposed to a virus my child could be seriously ill. You see the possibility of lifelong complications due to a vaccine side effect. I see lifelong complications in my older relatives that survived the outbreaks of polio, measles, mumps, etc...
You as a parent have done your research and are deciding not to vaccinate based on what you feel is best for your child. This does not make you a bad parent. I as a parent have done my research and have decided to vaccinate based on what I feel is best for my child. I am not a bad parent. You aren't going to change my mind. I am not going to change your mind. You want your child to be healthy and live a long happy life. I want the same. You feel vaccinating could possibly hinder that from happening, and I feel a serious virus that could have been prevented could hinder my child from achieving this. In the data you see an increase in illnesses, chronic and other childhood issues such as obesity and asthma that could be linked to vaccines. In that same data I see environmental issues, the ability for increased reporting and data collection via computers and the internet, additives and hormones in foods, and lack of exercise for the same issues.
The thing as a pro vaccine parent I would like anti vaccine parents to understand is I feel like I am taking a chance with my child by her being around unvaccinated kids. Although the chances of her catching a mutated form of an illness she's been vaccinated for from an unvaccinated child are very very small. In my mind, and from the data and research I've done the chances of this happening are comparable to the chances I took of a side effect when she was vaccinated. So please understand that when you say a small chance is too much when we're talking about the health of our children, many pro vaccine parents feel the same way about their child being exposed to yours. This is why this discussion has no end and gets so heated.
At the end of the day some things are the same with pro and anti vaccine parents. We both love our kids, we both want what's best for them, we both want to keep them safe and happy, and we both have done our research. Please don't give me the line of the more educated you are the less likely you are to vaccinate. That's a line of you know what from both sides of the debate. I would venture to guess the likelyhood of vaccinating or not is pretty equal no matter your level of education. As you can see both sides can look at the exact same data and come up with very different conclusions. This speaks nothing of the level of education on either side. I will continue to vaccinate my child, you will continue to not vaccinate yours. All we can hope is that we've made the right decision for our children and that they grow up to one day make the best parenting decisions they can based on their ability to research and interpret certain data and life experiences.