Responses to booju vaccination post
May. 11th, 2009 06:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The person with lupus cannot protect herself because vaccines aren't going to work for her. Stop telling her to protect herself and stop relying on other people for her protection. Also, "shit happens" is not a good enough reason to leave something undone - like 90% uptake of mandated vaccines - that could save her life. "Shit happens" is what you say when you've done everything you can and it still doesn't work.
Your immune system may actually be better than everyone else's. It's possible. I don't want to be you when it fails and nobody around you is vaccinated, though. Also, refusing to get certain vaccines, like tetanus, pertussis, and diphtheria, when your children have no medical reason not to get them, is just plain stupid. Tetanus kills a large percentage of people whose jaws end up locked and maims a lot more, and it's present in the dirt in which your kids play. Diphtheria and pertussis both can kill within days of getting sick, and have a relatively high mortality rate amongst certain populations.
Someone mentioned the vaccination schedule for adults put out by the CDC. According to that, I'm up-to-date, because my most recent tetanus was also a booster for diphtheria and pertussis. So, to the lady asking how many adults screaming "You have to get your kids vaccinated to keep mine safe" were up on their shots - I can't speak for the others, but I am. (Note: if you or people close to you have regular contact with babies and your last tetanus shot was a few years ago, ask your doctor about that combined shot. Once every ten years, just like a regular tetanus shot.) It was interesting to note that one to two doses of varicella vaccine are recommended in certain circumstances for adults younger than 65; after that it's a Zoster to help prevent a shingles outbreak.
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Date: 2009-05-11 12:27 pm (UTC)It's a good response, I think. It makes me glad we're all caught up. :-)
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Date: 2009-05-11 04:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-11 07:23 pm (UTC)It was probably the DTaP, because it's replaced the Tetanus-alone shot almost entirely. But yeah, I'd call and check.
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Date: 2009-05-11 05:29 pm (UTC)Using your own "superdeedooper immune system" as evidence of anything drives me a little crazy. The Cheat has the most remarkable immune system I've ever seen, and he was fully vaccinated on-schedule and combination fed. I don't pretend that either of those things is related to his immune system; it strikes me as a combination of luck of the draw and not protecting him from ever damned germ in the universe as an infant. I do like to watch the heads spin when I mention this to people who maintain that vaccinations and forumla cause various diseases and asthma and whatever else they cause this week.
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Date: 2009-05-11 07:21 pm (UTC)You can't depend on a strong immune system from one day to the next, so it's silly not to help it along as much as you can. Coming in contact with germs strengthens immune systems, and vaccines are a controled, safe way of introducing germs to an immune system.
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Date: 2009-05-11 08:51 pm (UTC)I, too, am fully up to date on my vaccinations and plan to ensure that my children are too.
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Date: 2009-05-11 08:57 pm (UTC)Furthermore, the vast majority of kids who get pertussis catch it from an asymptomatic adult whose immunity is out of date. Booster shots for pertussis are absolutely essential for every adult, so as to prevent the spread of the disease to small children who can easily die of it.
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Date: 2009-05-12 12:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-12 01:09 am (UTC)