I just don't get it. I could never, ever risk polio, diptheria, tetanus, TB, smallpox, meningitis, etc. These diseases are killers. And if they don't kill, they leave the victim scarred for life. I lived during an era when polio and TB were rampant. Is the fear of the vaccine worse than the disease itself?
I can understand selectively vaccinating. I can understand delayed vaccinating. I can understand not vaccinating based on previous reactions or family history. But for the life of me, I cannot understand not vaccinating because there is a possibility, unproven, of perhaps a problem with vaccine that no one has been able to document based on someone's gut instinct.
I think many of you have not lived with childhood diseases, fatal diseases that could be prevented by vaccinating. You haven't seen what polio can do to a community, how smallpox scars, the isolation of tuberculosis, or the pain of meningitis.
My uncle spent 7 years flat on his back in an Arizona sanitarium. My grandfather died from it. And my mother is a carrier who was shunned in school because she was considered dangerous and possibly contagious. That is what tuberculosis is.
I can understand selectively vaccinating. I can understand delayed vaccinating. I can understand not vaccinating based on previous reactions or family history. But for the life of me, I cannot understand not vaccinating because there is a possibility, unproven, of perhaps a problem with vaccine that no one has been able to document based on someone's gut instinct.
I think many of you have not lived with childhood diseases, fatal diseases that could be prevented by vaccinating. You haven't seen what polio can do to a community, how smallpox scars, the isolation of tuberculosis, or the pain of meningitis.
My uncle spent 7 years flat on his back in an Arizona sanitarium. My grandfather died from it. And my mother is a carrier who was shunned in school because she was considered dangerous and possibly contagious. That is what tuberculosis is.