Says my grandfather, who is healthy and robust in his mid-70's, despite having suffered through measles, mumps, scarlet fever, and pertussis as a child. He recently told me his life story about how he had to be in quarantine, how his dad had to live at a neighbor's house during his measles quarantine, all the people he knew who had disfiguring scarring from scarlet fever, people he knew who were sterilized by mumps, or paralyzed by polio. He says he never wants to see those diseases come back, and that "People don't remember" what it was like back then.
My argument is that we have better treatments for those diseases today, as opposed to his time where nothing could be done except to sit and wait it out, and while I do worry and don't want my kids to suffer through those things, I am willing to let them suffer because I simply do not believe that modern vaccines are safe and I would much rather spend ten days in quarantine than deal with a lifetime of worse problems or even death from unsafe shots.
I also argue that much of the research I've read has said that those diseases were on the way out by the time the vaccines came into heavy distribution and use, much like diseases of the past like the plague eventually wiped itself out.
Thoughts?
My argument is that we have better treatments for those diseases today, as opposed to his time where nothing could be done except to sit and wait it out, and while I do worry and don't want my kids to suffer through those things, I am willing to let them suffer because I simply do not believe that modern vaccines are safe and I would much rather spend ten days in quarantine than deal with a lifetime of worse problems or even death from unsafe shots.
I also argue that much of the research I've read has said that those diseases were on the way out by the time the vaccines came into heavy distribution and use, much like diseases of the past like the plague eventually wiped itself out.
Thoughts?
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