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Originally Posted by Delicateflower  Gosh, your poor kids! I hope they have a better run of it, this year. There's nothing worse than missing all that school, is there? At least you know they won't get whooping cough or RSV again for a few years.
But don't you think someone who was even healthier would get such a mild case of the disease that you didn't even notice it? I'm sure my fully immunized children gets tons of viruses and other bugs from other children but because they've got strong immune systems they kill off the bugs before they are sick enough to show symptoms. Neither of them had a single cold last year. I had a horrible bout of rotavirus, but they'd been vaxed for that, luckily.
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I haven't been back to visit this thread for about a month and just saw this.
Hm.
Well, since my kids don't attend school (they learn at home as my sig states), we don't have to worry about make-up work or the like when they do catch childhood illnesses and common colds and such.
As for not having to worry about them getting sick again with whooping cough or RSV? Well, since my child who dealt with both has developed natural immunity from catching and healing from the diseases, we won't have to worry about these again.
I am grateful that I don't have to take them in to get boosters for the vaccinations that may/may not confer immunity and worry about them getting sick with those things again if the vaccine is not effective. (I trust my children's immune systems much more than I trust a pharmaceutical company)
Sure, it sucked when my children had the illnesses, but now we don't have to worry about them recurring. (Or about them getting sick but not having any symptoms due to suppression from the vaccine and then unknowingly passing it on to a newborn sibling or elderly person, etc)
It seems there is a general thought going among ppl that health=no symptoms, no illnesses. That is what vaccine manufacturers and doctors want us to believe, if ppl are vaccinated before contracting an illness, we must be immune from the diseases they are
marketed as if they prevent, thus we will be healthier. In general, overall, for the majority of ppl.
But are vaccines always safe? Always effective? Do they create health or maintain health better than for ppl who are unvaccinated? Depends on who you ask and what you choose to believe.
I wonder is anyone who believes 100% in vaccines has studied each vaccine package insert that accompanies the shot their child was going to receive? Some vaccines do not, and
are not designed to prevent the illness entirely, but to reduce severity of symptoms or to *suppress* the symptoms themselves, but not necessarily prevent the person from actually having an active illness or from being contagious and thus able to pass the illness to others. It's in the packet!
I don't know about you, but I prefer to SEE if another person is sick by their symptoms so I can avoid contact with them.
Not seeing symptoms gives the illusion of health. No visible symptoms, must be healthy, right? Or maybe not.....
That is a mainstream viewpoint and there are some very convincing arguments in opposition to that claim.
But that seems like a whole other thread to me.
As the disclaimer at the top of this page on Mothering.com points out:
"...one of our objectives, and for which members and guests come to our forum, is
to bring to light the information that is not mainstream and readily available. Though Mothering does not take a pro or anti stand on vaccinations, we will not host threads on the merits of mandatory vaccine, or a purely pro vaccination view point as this is not conducive to the learning process." (italics mine)
I appreciate those posters contributing to this thread who are asking genuine questions, those who are interested in learning more than what is offered in the mainstream and those who share perspectives, studies, book titles and websites that bring up valid points of discussion as it pertains to vaccinations.
