Parents who do AND do not have there kids vaccinated should read this!!!?

Question

http://www.newstarget.com/022267.html

Let me hear some opinions on this please!

Answer 1

Why are parents of vaccinated children scared of unvaccinated children? Your children are supposed to be protected, right? They won't get sick even if someone has the deadly mumps, measles or chicken pox, right?

And for the record, most of these children were missing the booster for Hep B and chicken pox. Hardly deadly diseases. I'd rather have my daughter get the deadly chicken pox than a syringe full of aluminum and formaldehyde. You do know these vaccines contain mercury (the flu shot for example still has thimerosal), aluminum, formaldehyde, etc? It's on the vaccine insert. Read it sometimes. You'd be amazed the stuff they put in it, the side effects, and the few studies that were done. And you can go right to the company's site and see the list for yourself, so you don't think it's just crazy hippie anti-vax people making stuff up.

Doctors will say vaccines are safe because this is what they are taught in medical school. But the CDC themselves say that there are more complications from the vaccines than from the diseases they are supposed to prevent.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/safety.pdf
"Decreases in Disease Risks
Today, vaccine-preventable diseases are at or near record lows. By virtue of their absence, these diseases are no longer reminders of the benefits of vaccination. At the same time, approximately 15,000 cases of adverse events following vaccination are reported in the United States each year (these include both true adverse reactions and events that occur coincidentally after vaccination). This number exceeds the current reported incidence of vaccine-preventable
childhood diseases. As a result, parents and providers in the United States are more likely to know someone who has experienced an adverse event following immunization than they are to know someone who has experienced a reportable vaccine-preventable disease. Thus, the success of vaccination has led to increased public attention on health risks associated with vaccines.

Public Confidence
Maintaining public confidence in immunizations is critical for preventing a decline in vaccination rates that can result in outbreaks of disease."

Answer 2

Hi, um, living right here in Prince George's County, Maryland. And we have no gestapo or guard dogs.

What we do have are pockets of poverty. While our neighborhood is quite stable, I don't have to venture too far to find communities where many, many families are teetering on the edge.

My read is that this what NOT a case of families with religious beliefs against vaccination, but families so fragile that their children weren't getting appropriate medical care, full stop. Some Prince George's County neighborhoods - ours included - attract many newcomers to the US. I'm not surprised to learn that there are enough un-vaccinated kiddos out there to fill up a courtroom.

I'm willing to get outraged about the number of people without medical coverage, or the number of people working full-time and still living below the poverty line. I'm even willing to get upset when families have children they can't responsibly care for. But this sounds like a judge taking a very necessary step to ensure community health and welfare - not trampling on individual civil rights.

Upset? Not me. I've got a kid of my own, and I'm far more relieved to know that when we hit the playgrounds around here, odds are decent that my son's playmates are healthy.

Answer 3

my opinion is that though rational people could debate on whether or not the judge's tactics were reasonable (i don't actually think they were), this article is hopelessly biased and just plain ridiculous.

-- Maryland regulations do in fact require immunizations or an exemption for kids enrolled in school. The people who were being herded to court had neither immunizations nor exemptions. http://www.edcp.org/pdf/at105092.pdf.

-- The medical society that's cited to give the impression that doctors everywhere are against this is actually a tiny group of very conservative physicians that takes right-wing political positions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons

-- i would love more information about the attack dogs and the gunpoint. would that possibly be the guards standing at the front of the courthouse (for the, er, murderers etc.) as they do at every courthouse??? duh. it's a courthouse. there's security. that doesn't mean dogs/ guns were threatening the kids who were trying to shy away from the shots. good grief. and as for kids being vaccinated "against their will," well, most kids aren't exactly begging for it. if it was against the parent's will, they could have gotten an exemption.

the kids should get vaccinated or the parents should get an exemption or they should be homeschooled. that's the law. it's there to protect all our kids. again, i don't agree with the judge's tactics. but i don't agree with the scare tactics of this particular article, either.

Answer 4

This a bit extreme. But I vaccinated my daughter and plan to with my next. Quoting from the article, "As more and more parents are becoming informed about the dangers of vaccinations and their link to autism," -- I asked my doctor about the links to autism and potential dangers. He informed me that any small problem is usually blamed on vaccinations and negatively focused on even if it's a 1 in a million situation. I have taken the necessary steps to ensure my child's health and safety and when other parents refuse to vaccinate their children out of ignorance (religious reasons are different) and their children can potentially get sick and maybe infect their peers, it's not right. Forcing vaccinations with guns and dogs is not an answer but education is. The media can change the way people view vaccinations by informing the public that they are safe.

Answer 5

I believe in vaccinating children, just not following the ridiculous schedule put out by the CDC. 36 vaccinations by the age of TWO? I will also space out the MMR vaccines and not get them all at once. When I was a child (in the 70's) we had 12 vaccines TOTAL.

Answer 6

It's bad how they have scared children and parents in order to get them to be vaccinated. I can understand why they wanted to have it done as many children are becoming ill even dieing when it could have been prevented if they had been vaccinated. Some small children are catching mumps hep C etc before they have had the chance to be vaccinated because they have been in contact with a child who's parents have refused for them to be vaccinated. Parents think they are doing what they think is best because of hearing about autism linked with vaccinations and other scare stories but what would you prefer, a dead child or a child with special need. i know i would prefer my child in my life with special needs Rather then not at all.

Answer 7

My children are vaccinated, no worries here. LOL about the news story. I guess my opinion would be that I'm glad that someone is looking out for the health and well-being of those children.

I'm relieved to know that my kids are safe from those kids and vice versa. How horrid I would feel if my child exposed those to an illnesses that could have serious complications.

No problems here. :)

As for what Equ... has stated, the parents of children who are still young and haven't received ALL vaccinations have a right to worry about having their kids exposed to the others. Once a child is vaccinated, those worries are gone.

As I mentioned before, though, I'm glad that my kids are safe from "those" kids and my kids won't be exposed to illnesses that have serious complications that can be so easily prevented. Whew!

Answer 8

I think that if the parents intend to put the child in a public schooling facility, they should be required to fill the health requirements demanded by the state funded public school.

If they want to adhere to their own beliefs about vaccinations that's fine...but be prepared to send your child to a private school that doesn't have such requirements.

Why should my child be exposed to an illness that could have been prevented...just because someone else wants to inflict their will on everyone else.

If it's a public agency with requirements for admission...the requirements need to be filled...

They took extreme and inappropriate tactics in this particular case (and I doubt that it's all true it sounded very sensationalized) but the fact remains the same...if you don't want to vaccinate your child...fine...then don't put them in public school with the rest of the kids that did have to fill the requirements.

I also spoke to my pediatrician and have read several articles on the topic and it seems that one particular vaccination happens to be administered at the same time that the symptoms of autism typically show themselves and consequently this particular vaccination is getting blamed for autism.

Incidentally, autism has been around a hell of alot longer than half of these vaccinations have been...so I don't believe that there is a connection beyond coincidence.

But above and beyond all of that...I think if you don't want to vax your kids, they shouldn't be put in public schools that require vaccinations.

Answer 9

I think that it should be the parents right to choose. They have to understand that most schools don't allow children that aren't vaccinated in the doors. I personally think that kids should be vaccinated and all three of mine are but, some don't think that way.

Answer 10

I honestly didn't believe this, and I live near Prince George County (our cable's been off, what can I say). So I kept looking at link after link until I finally had to admit that it happened. My God, what is our country coming to? What happened to the land of the Free and the Home of the Brave? I believe in vaccinations but I understand the concerns of those who question them. I thought that people had the right to refuse medical treatment for themselves or their children.