A story from family history
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velvetpageBack on my kick about vaccinations - I'll make it public for those who wish to link to it later.
My grandmother used to tell the story of her cousins, who went to a Sunday School Picnic around 1928. She herself stayed home, because her baby sister was ill and her mother needed the help, but out of her very large family, almost all the kids went. They went to a local park and waded in a pond, having a glorious time. Nana was quite jealous.
Two weeks later, two-thirds of them were dead of diptheria. Several more were weakened by it enough that when another disease came flying around a few years later, their overall health was lessened and they succumbed to that. (I think that was scarlet fever.)
Contrast that mortality rate - approximately 66% - with the fairly slim chance of developing any kind of autism. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sassy_fae, stat please?) Now contrast it with the even slimmer chance that that autism has anything at all to do with the vaccines you're giving your kids.
And this was just one disease. Not the fifteen or so against which modern, free vaccines in Canada will protect them.
Please, please, vaccinate your kids. It's the single best thing you can do to ensure that they will grow up to be healthy adults. Vaccines are the reason we no longer feel the need to have half a dozen children each. We're not afraid anymore than one bad epidemic of measels will take our only child away from us. If we don't vaccinate, we should be.
My grandmother used to tell the story of her cousins, who went to a Sunday School Picnic around 1928. She herself stayed home, because her baby sister was ill and her mother needed the help, but out of her very large family, almost all the kids went. They went to a local park and waded in a pond, having a glorious time. Nana was quite jealous.
Two weeks later, two-thirds of them were dead of diptheria. Several more were weakened by it enough that when another disease came flying around a few years later, their overall health was lessened and they succumbed to that. (I think that was scarlet fever.)
Contrast that mortality rate - approximately 66% - with the fairly slim chance of developing any kind of autism. (
sassy_fae, stat please?) Now contrast it with the even slimmer chance that that autism has anything at all to do with the vaccines you're giving your kids.And this was just one disease. Not the fifteen or so against which modern, free vaccines in Canada will protect them.
Please, please, vaccinate your kids. It's the single best thing you can do to ensure that they will grow up to be healthy adults. Vaccines are the reason we no longer feel the need to have half a dozen children each. We're not afraid anymore than one bad epidemic of measels will take our only child away from us. If we don't vaccinate, we should be.
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Date: 2006-03-08 09:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-08 10:44 pm (UTC)The B'liar has a kidlet, Leo. Said kidlet got paraded for photocalls with the happy family B'liar, then came due for the dreaded MMR...or equivalent single injections. Our bold and hon. Bliar backed the Govt line that MMR was perfectly safe (that would make me worry if nothing else did) and you could have MMR or pay for private, the NHS was MMR or zilch.
Ah, says the media, did widdle Leo have single or triple MMR?
Now IF Leo had had the triple like the Govt reckoned was good enough for the rest, all Bliar had to say was "Sho'did!". And he sho' didn't. 'Cause answer to the question came there none...the Bliar suddenly went all private. Probably for the jabs as well.
At least John Gummer had the gall to make his daughter eat a hamburger on camera to quell fears of mad cow disease..
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Date: 2006-03-09 12:05 am (UTC)I've spent my entire career thus far working with the most difficult and delayed of the autism population, some kids who are aggressive, some kids with multiple diagnoses, some kids who can't even make basic choices. After putting in hundreds of hours dealing with kids on the autism spectrum, I will still vaccinate every one of my children. I'm that certain that the needles won't cause any of those symptoms.