I have a friend who does not know that I don't vaccinate, but she knows someone else who does not and she totally flew off the handle talking about how she never would have let her too-young-to-be-vaccinated child play with the other (much older) child if she had known because the unvaccinated child was "endangering the life" of her child.
My question is why are children the only ones capable of spreading disease? I spent this morning reading several reports that state that only 1-2% of adults get vaccinated for anything besides the fllu. You don't just get vaccinated as a child. Those vaccines wear off. You have to continue getting them every few years for the rest of your life, right?
So if ony 1-2% of adults are vaccinated, why don't we have rampant disease running through the country? Why don't adults get these awful deadly diseases but children ALL seem to walk around like little Diphtheria petri dishs? At least according to those who are avidly pro-vaccinating children, anyway. I'm pro-vaccines, but we selectively vaccinate, and so far we haven't selected any we deem appropriate in our circumstances.
I believe that vaccines are responsible for the vast majority of the lack of dangerous disease in our country today, but if so many people remain unvaccinated, could it be that its continued absence has something to do with things other than vaccines like better hygeine and overall better living standards? After all, malaria used to be a huge problem in the US and now no one here gets it anymore, but there is no vaccine for malaria.
My question is why are children the only ones capable of spreading disease? I spent this morning reading several reports that state that only 1-2% of adults get vaccinated for anything besides the fllu. You don't just get vaccinated as a child. Those vaccines wear off. You have to continue getting them every few years for the rest of your life, right?
So if ony 1-2% of adults are vaccinated, why don't we have rampant disease running through the country? Why don't adults get these awful deadly diseases but children ALL seem to walk around like little Diphtheria petri dishs? At least according to those who are avidly pro-vaccinating children, anyway. I'm pro-vaccines, but we selectively vaccinate, and so far we haven't selected any we deem appropriate in our circumstances.
I believe that vaccines are responsible for the vast majority of the lack of dangerous disease in our country today, but if so many people remain unvaccinated, could it be that its continued absence has something to do with things other than vaccines like better hygeine and overall better living standards? After all, malaria used to be a huge problem in the US and now no one here gets it anymore, but there is no vaccine for malaria.
Have vaccines eradicated the common-sense practice of not passing newborns around? Vaccinated or not, its prudent to limit a newborn's exposure, considering the 1001 other infectious diseases for which there is no vaccine. Is she breastfeeding and aware of the immunological benefits to her baby?
Nope. Not only are new doses of "old" vaccines being continually added to the children's schedule, but the CDC is also promoting an adult vaccine schedule that you can find on their website. They are discovering that vaccines do not give lifelong immunity, and that vaccine induced immunity probably won't last through childhood. You haven't heard the "Do it for Suzy-Q" pertussis vax campaign aimed at the parents and grandparents of young children?
