quasi Report This Comment Date: April 01, 2014 09:40PM
I'm so upset by these foolish people who make the "personal" decision
to not vaccinate their children based on the disproven theory that vaccinations
cause autism, endangering their children and others around them. Because they
live in a society which has all but stamped out these diseases through
vaccinations they are clueless as to the horrors that can befall their own
children because of their ignorance; they have no personal experience at the
ravages of these diseases so they ignore them.
The happy little fellow on the left in the picture was my uncle who died from
diphtheria at the age of six, thirty years before I was born, because the
vaccination which now makes it unknown in this country was not invented - I can
see my own grandson in his face and mourn the person I never had an opportunity
to know, who himself never had the opportunity to have a life. The little girl
standing was my aunt who did grow up and married a man who had polio at the age
of two and carried around a heavy brace and built up shoe on his withered leg
for the rest of his life because there was no vaccination at the time. My own
mother, the tot sitting on the right, was fortunate to have survived whooping
cough but could just as easily been the second child lost by my grandparents to
a disease that is now preventable, and I'm sure they lived in terror of losing
that second child while she was ill; I'm told that my grandmother, who passed
away when I was four, never really recovered from the loss of her first son and
she must have constantly worried about her remaining children which included a
second son born after the first had died.
These anti-vaccination people need to wake up. They may only be here today to
make their stupid decisions because a parent, grandparent, or even they
themselves lived thanks to vaccinations.
Mach Report This Comment Date: April 02, 2014 05:10AM
quasi, do you get a Flu shot every year.... and do you prefer that your
grandchildren get everything on the list?
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quasi Report This Comment Date: April 02, 2014 10:19AM
I don't get flu shots because I'm not in a high risk group but I do prefer my
grandchildren (one 5 years old, the second due in early Sept.) receive doctor
recommended immunizations as the likely benefits far outweigh the possible (and
often imaginary) risks.
Dingo Report This Comment Date: April 02, 2014 07:02PM
But Professor Jenny McCarthy says they're dangerous. Maybe those globes of hers
are really two extra brains.
woberto Report This Comment Date: January 10, 2024 10:07PM
I remember reading about Alan Alda from M*A*S*H fame.
He contracted polio back in 1943 as a child.
quoth the interweb;
'His parents chose to administer a painful treatment regimen,
"consisting of applying hot woolen blankets to his limbs and stretching his
muscles".
This treatment had been developed by the Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny
(1880-1952),
and was based on the principle of muscle rehabilitation.
Though the treatment was considered controversial,
it seemingly helped Alda to recover his mobility.'