Faking Faith to avoid shots? When I skimmed this artical I read something and thought it was wrong is it?

Question

It says in the artical that not taking a vac shot is not making a choice for yourself but instead a choice for the person sitting next to you. I find this statement to be totaly incorrect. If I choose to take a shot or not and then you choose to sit next to me puts the ball in your court. If you really care to know if people are vaccinated or not you could simply just ask everyone you meet if they are before sitting next to them... Not that anyone would do this but the point is the choice of a parent for the child they care for should not be forced simply because its also a choice that has an effect on other people... I would love to hear at what point im wrong here. I mean sure you can make the point that if people dont get vacs then they could be a risk to someone else but honestly is that how you would want to see other people as a risk to yourself and others? Does anyone actualy fully understand how these vacs are effecting our children or ourselfs? I think not...

Guess I should tell you where the artical was. Yahoo news I believe on the front page of yahoo home page for me.

I am personaly against vacs I will say that much but my reasons for being against them is the fact that I am a firm believer in having things as natural as they can be... But with that said the human race especialy americans have been taking vacs for stuff we probably 100 years ago could have srugged off our immune systems may have changed after having take vacs for so long so I do not suggest we stop taking them just yet. But I think at the rate things are going we will have children possibly taking 1000s of vacs or something silly because we have let fear of getting sick rule us rather then taking the risk of getting sick and being stronger for it. The more you try to avoid something the more likely it will land right in your face sometimes... So we may or may not be setting ourselfs up for a worse case event by not letting nature do its thing and trying to change it. I dont know if any of this is true but then again neither do you or at least your not telling me secrets idk.

So because you choose to be at risk I should not have a choice... Seems fair.

Answer 1

I vaccinated all of my children yet if I had to do it again I'm not sure I would. At the time, I only knew that it was mandatory so I did not see a choice.

These articles are a great examination of the pro's and the con's of vaccinations. I would recommend checking them out and researching before vaccinating your children to make sure that you feel comfortible with doing so or not doing so.

http://www.unlessthelordmagazine.com/articles/Vaccines%20Prt%201.htm

http://www.unlessthelordmagazine.com/articles/Vaccines%202.htm

http://www.unlessthelordmagazine.com/articles/Vaccines%203.htm

As far as the statement about whether or not you are putting others at risk by not vaccinating everyday people are sitting next to others who are sick with colds, flus, etc. and in danger of getting sick. There will never be 100% assurance that everyone you come into contact with is fully vaccinated and in this day and age people feel forced to go to work sick and send their kids to school sick so it is inevitable that you will get sick with something.

Ingredients for most vaccines:

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/ingredients1.html

Answer 2

What strikes me about the statement that not getting a shot would somehow effect the person next to you is that it couldn't possibly make any difference if the other person is vaccinated.

For example I don't get my kid vaccinated against chicken pox, he gets exposed to it and before any symptoms develop
I send him to school. The only children who should be effected are the children who are also not vaccinated.

Personally I believe that most of the shots that are mandated were mandated for a good reason, polio, mumps, measles and small pox used to kill thousands of people every year and now they are very rare in this country. But now they are pushing vaccinations for diseases that normally do not kill.

Some states have mandated the HPV shot, HPV is a sexually transmitted disease that has been linked to only 2-3 types of cervical cancer and not everyone who gets HPV will even get these cancers anyway. How do we justify subjecting so many little girls to an expensive series of shots for something they are at very little risk of dying from. On top of that consider the fact that they have no idea what the long term effects of these shots will be. (for those who don't know the HPV vaccine is a series of 3 shots that cost on average $360, multiply that by a million little girls and you can see that requiring this vaccine means a big profit for the company that makes it.)

You CAN enroll an unvaccinated child in school, you simply have to sign a wavier and if there is an outbreak of something you child would not go to school until the danger has passed.

Answer 3

Why would you assume they're faking their faith? There are many religions and sects that do not allow medical procedures, injections, blood transfusions,surgeries, etc., and vaccination is along those same lines. Certainly no one, and no parent, would forgo vaccinating themselves or their child just for the heck of it.

It's a medical issue whether or not the vaccinations harm those around you more than yourself, not to mention the fact that you can't enroll your child in any public or private school without vaccination records, so that kinda cuts down on the risk, even if it's true.

Answer 4

I didn't read the article but the standard when it comes to vaccinations seems a bit over the top for me. Medical institutions want to give small children multiple vaccinations at one time for diseases it is unlikely they will contract so young, such as Hepititas B. And the truth is we don't really know what effect so many vacs at once has on small children and infants. It's really up to the parents, not the medical institutions, however parents must realize that by school age their kids should have all the necessary vaccinations to be enrolled.

Answer 5

First off I am EMS First Responder, And that statement in the artical is correct. If your unconsious at a car wreck or at any scene and I dont know anything about you and cant ask you what shots you have had or haven't. That puts me at risk and other people. Yes the career I am chasing puts me at risk more so then others but, you don't know when you could put someone at risk because of your carelessness to just get a shot. And you know that alot of people don't want to just walk up and ask you something like "Hey! Do you have Hep-B? because I don't want to get it from you." Really your being ignorant to the fact that shots are imperative to others and yourself.


Statement below.

the reason why they give vaccines to common illness is because many illnesses can mutate and become a real problem if they are allowed to spread. So they stop it from spreading and making things really bad. Also some of the shots help prevent sickness from the Flu or things like that. Its good because sometimes schools have to be shut down because of a simple out break of the flu. (yes schools could prevent shutting down if the kids wash their hands, but their kids they are young.) its not also just schools it can be companies and things like that that when you crunch the numbers you loose at of profit from a company out because of a flu out break. Also students loose learning and schooling and are behind in class work and school because of things like the school closing down because of a simple flu out break. We know that things as simple as a flu can't really kill you (unless they are infants or their body is weak alread or are elderly.)


same goes for you, because you chose to be at risk so do I.
Also I would be saving your life so I think that the lessed you could do would make sure that the person that maybe sometime in your life be saving you wouldnt be exposed to something that could effect them.

Answer 6

There's a reason these shots are mandatory.

They keep terrible things from spreading through our kids at school. It is right to enforce them for the good of the kids.

If a very small minority refuse due to religious reasons, they do not pose such a huge threat.

If every parent refused, get used to seeing outbreaks of something every year. Until of course people like you would demand the government do something about it.

Like enforce shots.