The vaccination "debate"

deactivated-5b1e62582e305 · 2015-01-28 01:28:15

Carl Krawitt has watched his son, Rhett, now 6, fight leukemia for the past 4 1/2 years. For more than three of those years, Rhett has undergone round after round of chemotherapy. Last year he finished chemotherapy, and doctors say he is in remission.Now, there's a new threat, one that the family should not have to worry about: measles.Rhett cannot be vaccinated, because his immune system is still rebuilding. It may be months more before his body is healthy enough to get all his immunizations. Until then, he depends on everyone around him for protection — what's known as herd immunity.But Rhett lives in Marin County, Calif., a county with the dubious honor of having the highest rate of 'personal belief exemptions' in the Bay Area and among the highest in the state. This school year, 6.45 percent of children in Marin have a personal belief exemption, which allows parents to lawfully send their children to school unvaccinated against communicable diseases like measles, polio, whooping cough and more.Carl Krawitt has had just about enough. 'It's very emotional for me,' he said. 'If you choose not to immunize your own child and your own child dies because they get measles, OK, that's your responsibility, that's your choice. But if your child gets sick and gets my child sick and my child dies, then ... your action has harmed my child.'Krawitt is taking action of his own. His son attends Reed Elementary in Tiburon, a school with a 7 percent personal belief exemption rate. (The statewide average is 2.5 percent). Krawitt had previously worked with the school nurse to make sure that all the children in his son's class were fully vaccinated. He said the school was very helpful and accommodating.Now Krawitt and his wife, Jodi, have emailed the district's superintendent, requesting that the district 'require immunization as a condition of attendance, with the only exception being those who cannot medically be vaccinated.'Carl Krawitt provided me with Superintendent Steven Herzog's response. Herzog didn't directly address their query, instead saying: 'We are monitoring the situation closely and will take whatever actions necessary to ensure the safety of our students.'More here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/27/381888697/to-protect-his-son-a-father-asks-school-to-bar-unvaccinated-childrenWhat do you think of this? I don't think we've had a thread about this but since the personal freedoms and beliefs are something a lot of users on this forum appreciate, I feel like vaccinations are an interesting area to discuss. Especially since there are posters here that are parents.bonus article: Parents who oppose measles vaccine hold firm to their beliefs (LA Times)

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#101 deactivated-5f9e3c6a83e51

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@Born_Lucky said:

Meanwhile . . . 20 million illegal aliens have come into the country in the last 20 years - no one knows if they've been vaccinated, and yet . . . that's perfectly fine with the news media.

Also - in the past 20 years - ONE person has died from the measles in the United States

FIFTY SEVEN have died from vaccinations.

Facts - they sure are pesky things when you're trying to scare people into shooting something into their system . . aren't they?

57 people have died from how many vacccines? Millions? If you took that many people and actually gave them measles, I expect the mortality rates to be much higher than 57. Not to mention small pox and polio which have even higher mortality rates.

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#102 MakeMeaSammitch

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@Born_Lucky said:

Meanwhile . . . 20 million illegal aliens have come into the country in the last 20 years - no one knows if they've been vaccinated, and yet . . . that's perfectly fine with the news media.

Also - in the past 20 years - ONE person has died from the measles in the United States

FIFTY SEVEN have died from vaccinations.

Facts - they sure are pesky things when you're trying to scare people into shooting something into their system . . aren't they?

Holy shit, I'd say you should enter a stupid contest but professionals aren't allowed.

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#103 N30F3N1X

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@Mystery_Writer said:

how could a vaccinated child get sick from a disease he's vaccinated against by another unvaccinated child?

I lol'd

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#105 Planeforger

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@Born_Lucky said:

Also - in the past 20 years - ONE person has died from the measles in the United States

FIFTY SEVEN have died from vaccinations.

If those numbers are real, then...vaccinations absolutely work (since only one person has died from a disease that used to cause half a million deaths per year back in the 90s), and the risks they pose are insignificant compared to the number of deaths they have prevented.

Congratulations, you've just made a great promotion for vaccinations.

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