If I speak I will sound crazy to these people - Page 2

[Scattershoot]

Originally Posted by Ziggysmama

Why are you a nurse if you don't trust western medicine?

This is a common response when someone challenges an aspect of a belief system. The OP is concerned about vaccination and it's potential role in harming babies. It's a very valid concern because even the medical community admits that vaccines can maim and kill children, they just regard it as "rare." The "rare" part is definitely highly suspect, but that is an entirely different discussion. If a nurse questions vaccination, that by no means makes her distrust all of Western medicine.

It's like when someone questions the government in some capacity, some people will say, "So you think the government is corrupt" or "Do you think it is all some big conspiracy theory?" I think it is important to keep in mind the specifics of what someone has said.

There is a movement, pushed by the media and medical community, to make those who question vaccination out to be people who completely distrust Western medicine, as if we want to go back to the Stone Ages. Modern medicine has helped innumerable people in instances of trauma. Many lives have been saved. What a lot of people now question is the invasiveness of "preventative" treatments on healthy children and the role of known toxins in compromised individuals.

[plunky]

Originally Posted by Scattershoot

This is a common response when someone challenges an aspect of a belief system.

Scattershoot, your post was very well written and somewhat incisive. The OP was not. The thing that I took away from the OP was that to her, the belief system is simply "vaccines are bad, mmkay?" It is not reasonable to think that you can look at a baby, scoff at a doctor who can't figure out what is wrong, and then unilaterally decide that vaccinations are the cause of the baby's problems. She isn't challenging a belief system. She just has a different one.