A new poll conducted by Ipsos for Reuters found that 78 percent of Americans believe all children should be vaccinated. Just over 70 percent think schools should be able to suspend unvaccinated students during outbreaks of contagious diseases. And 65 percent think schools should be able to refuse enrollment to unvaccinated children. Senator Rand Paul of…
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rg9rts February 25th, 2015 at 10:04
No shots??? No school!!! No problem
Mike February 25th, 2015 at 15:18
My mother was an uneducated woman who taught herself to read and write but she new the benefits of the polio vaccine the day it became available. Years later she confessed it was her biggest worry while my sisters and I were growing up. We were vaccinated for everything from diphtheria to TB which was mandatory if I remember…
cecilia February 25th, 2015 at 17:20
I hear ya!
I was born by the time the polio vaccine was available and I got injected……..the measles vaccines and some others were still being worked on at the time so I was exposed to the measles virus, German measles and chicken pox – like all my classmates…oh joy.
I was lucky. I survived unscathed.
When I read about idiots who want to return us to a time when children are sick for up to a month I wonder what the HELL they are thinking?
not to mention that measles can kill and disable
Mike February 25th, 2015 at 18:42
I remember chicken pox/measles sleep overs although we never attended one. Like you, I had em all. Too young to remember what it was like and my own kids were all vaccinated so I’ve never seen the disease first hand. Polio was not uncommon when I was a kid, today it is a sign of how old we are when you can say that.
cecilia February 25th, 2015 at 20:59
While I recall being covered in a red rash….I think my mother suffered more (with worry). Which is not to say it wasn’t painful/annoying…just that I don’t remember all the gory details.
I DO remember that polio was still considered a horror….people were in iron lungs, they had TV shows with that as a theme or plot.
Today, no one ever thinks about it at all.
cecilia February 25th, 2015 at 17:13
The ONLY exceptions to vaccination should be medical – ie, people with weak immune systems or allergies to ingredients inside the vaccine. Those are the very people who are protected by ‘Herd Immunity’ ONLY if the rest of us healthy people DO get vaccinated.
exceptions for dumbass reasons are simply unethical and evil. To put it bluntly.
Kir (Politicoid) February 25th, 2015 at 22:10
Ah tyranny of the majority.
I swear we have an obsession with vaccines. They are a powerful medicine, but people seem to think that they are a wonder drug. They aren’t. They have their weaknesses as well, and at least in a few cases, the results of vaccinating may be worse than not vaccinating.