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WHat do you think of parents who don't immunize their kids?
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 465673" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Its a mixed bag.</p><p></p><p>On the one hand, some of these are serious illnesses - rubella (german measles) is one example, where somebody can have it and be exposing others before they even know they have it... and the impact on an unborn child can be very serious. I really don't want that one floating around in our community.</p><p></p><p>But not every current vaccine is for things that serious. Whooping cough is toward serious, but in my opinion chicken pox is not.</p><p></p><p>Even serious stuff, though... will always have exemptions. My generation was the last to get smallpox vaccine... husband had it, my bro had it... not me. MD said that I was "too sickly" and that the reaction to the vaccine could be as serious or worse than actually catching smallpox.</p><p></p><p>We did all the "standard" ones - but not the optional ones, partly because so many of these are "new" and the history isn't well known yet - do they really work? how well? how long? side effects? </p><p></p><p>School here expects the standard vaccines. If your kid doesn't have them, then you have to sign a form that says you agree to keep them home upon notificaton of a breakout of ANYTHING in the school, until such time as the situation has been cleared up AND your kid has clean bill of health from MD. If you're not getting shots because of immune problems or reactions... its a reasonable safeguard. If its "by choice" (beliefs, whatever else), then... its still relatively fair to the rest of the students.</p><p></p><p>The breakouts that happen here, by the way, are most often caused by immigrant kids from places where standardized immunization isn't really available (often refugees, or kids whose parents have been sent here for further education before returning home to teach or do research). That risk doesn't go away. We WILL be exposed to most of these diseases.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 465673, member: 11791"] Its a mixed bag. On the one hand, some of these are serious illnesses - rubella (german measles) is one example, where somebody can have it and be exposing others before they even know they have it... and the impact on an unborn child can be very serious. I really don't want that one floating around in our community. But not every current vaccine is for things that serious. Whooping cough is toward serious, but in my opinion chicken pox is not. Even serious stuff, though... will always have exemptions. My generation was the last to get smallpox vaccine... husband had it, my bro had it... not me. MD said that I was "too sickly" and that the reaction to the vaccine could be as serious or worse than actually catching smallpox. We did all the "standard" ones - but not the optional ones, partly because so many of these are "new" and the history isn't well known yet - do they really work? how well? how long? side effects? School here expects the standard vaccines. If your kid doesn't have them, then you have to sign a form that says you agree to keep them home upon notificaton of a breakout of ANYTHING in the school, until such time as the situation has been cleared up AND your kid has clean bill of health from MD. If you're not getting shots because of immune problems or reactions... its a reasonable safeguard. If its "by choice" (beliefs, whatever else), then... its still relatively fair to the rest of the students. The breakouts that happen here, by the way, are most often caused by immigrant kids from places where standardized immunization isn't really available (often refugees, or kids whose parents have been sent here for further education before returning home to teach or do research). That risk doesn't go away. We WILL be exposed to most of these diseases. [/QUOTE]
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