Yes, I have a friend who was lucky enough to survive polio but does still deal with the aftereffects. I don't understand why people won't vaccinate their children and themselves.
anti-vaxxers using Brady Bunch to justify making kids sick/dying
- Thread starter reagansghost
- Start date
Yes, I have a friend who was lucky enough to survive polio but does still deal with the aftereffects. I don't understand why people won't vaccinate their children and themselves.
Life is Golden
The Sage
It is. I'd read about Ebola on the news after an outbreak in someplace like the Congo and found it fascinatingly scary so I read as much about it as I could. There are other similar diseases like Ebola it covers, I think Marburg is another.
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
I have no problem with family's that don't vaccinate, for only personal reasons, to be quarantined in their homes.
Just my opinion.
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
Who pays attention to the old testament Brady Bunch?
The new testament Brady Bunch has won six super bowls.
The new testament Brady Bunch has won six super bowls.
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
The lucky part for the US is that most people have been made aware to never touch someone else's bodily fluids when they're sick, without using gloves.
Exactly. I don't want to find out that my stupid immune system is going to allow me to catch whatever they have. My problem with them, too, is that they spread misinformation. Some of them get pretty militant, too.
Life is Golden
The Sage
True, but it can be airborne.
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
There was a story, on a local talk radio, about those who were originally against vaccinations and then who had children get sick, getting threating comments from those who she had agreed with.
signalmankenneth
Verified User
A record-breaking measles outbreak owes its existence to the anti-vaccination movemen
A record-breaking measles outbreak owes its existence to the anti-vaccination movement
704 cases of the measles have been reported in the US this year. In 2000, the disease was supposedly eliminated
Small measles outbreaks have been reported in multiple regions over the last few months, but on Monday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported those collective cases have set a record for a new national high. According to the report, 704 cases have been reported in the United States this year, surpassing the prior record set, which was 667 cases in 2014. The disease was considered eliminated in the United States in 2000.
Last week, the CDC confirmed there were 626 cases, which at the time officials noted "in the coming weeks" the number of confirmed cases would surpass those in 2014. It took less than a week for that to happen, showing the pace in which the disease is spreading. From last week, the number of reported cases has increased by 78.
https://www.salon.com/2019/04/29/a-...s-existence-to-the-anti-vaccination-movement/
A record-breaking measles outbreak owes its existence to the anti-vaccination movement
704 cases of the measles have been reported in the US this year. In 2000, the disease was supposedly eliminated
Small measles outbreaks have been reported in multiple regions over the last few months, but on Monday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported those collective cases have set a record for a new national high. According to the report, 704 cases have been reported in the United States this year, surpassing the prior record set, which was 667 cases in 2014. The disease was considered eliminated in the United States in 2000.
Last week, the CDC confirmed there were 626 cases, which at the time officials noted "in the coming weeks" the number of confirmed cases would surpass those in 2014. It took less than a week for that to happen, showing the pace in which the disease is spreading. From last week, the number of reported cases has increased by 78.
https://www.salon.com/2019/04/29/a-...s-existence-to-the-anti-vaccination-movement/
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Ebola can not be spread via being "airborne"
From the CDC, on how Ebola can be transmitted
As has often been reported, Ebola apparently can’t be spread through the air simply by suspended particles remaining in the air after a cough or sneeze. But if infected sweat, mucus or saliva gets on doorknobs or countertops, the Ebola virus can be spread “for several hours” by someone touching the surface and then touching their eyes, nose, mouth or an open cut. Presumably it can be spread by handshaking as well, if the infected person had gotten his saliva or mucus on his hands. Not terribly reassuring, sad to say.
Life is Golden
The Sage
Amazing. This is one subject almost everyone here agrees on. Stop the presses!
I have gotten many nasty comments, up to and including death threats because I have spoken about vaccinating my child and keeping them up to date. He's on the Autism Spectrum. One of the comments that I got was that he didn't deserve to live and it was my fault. This same person told me that I should die, too.
LOL! I just got the vapors from it, too!
Well, hey! There ARE some things that we can mostly agree on!
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
And that's what happens when anyone DARES to step outside of the box, that others have create and DEMAND that everyone else climb in the box with them.
Vaccination had nothing to do with politics; because there are idiots on every side of the political spectrum.
Seems very high, but if they only received one of the two shots, they are NOT FULLY VACCINATED!!
Again, you can speculate all you like, regardless of how many times you do it, it will still be that, speculation..
IMHO it could of started in many, many places, including ppl coming here illegally as well legally, multiple sources..
We don't know, & we may never know..
USFREEDOM911
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
True and that's why parents need to be responsible and make sure their kids get ALL of the inoculations, at the appropriate time.
Absolutely! I agree 100%.
That's just so unacceptable and sad...but there are always going to be people who are cruel idiots... just like the ones who won't stop tossing around the R word and various forms of it to mock others..
They're to be ignored and pitied.....
I do the same thing -- think it's a form of self-desensitization, don't you?
Not to change the subject too much from vaccination, but one of the things I find really disturbing about climate change is how formerly tropical diseases that we have no defenses against, being northern hemisphere citizens, are slowly moving north with their vectors. The news had a segment the other night about Chaga disease. Possums, vectors for Hansens disease, are extending their range northward. They had reached the St. Louis (MO) area a few years before we left.