chelsea_b
Posted : 8/25/2008 12:08:12 PM
mrstjohnson
Well, how would you feel if you chose not to vaccinate your child for whatever reason and they came down with a disease leaving them scarred for life that was 100% preventable if you would have just vaccinated like the medical profession told you to do. Kind of like putting your child in a car seat to keep them safe, right.
No, because putting them in a car seat has no discernable risk involved. Injecting them with foreign substances, I'm sorry, just DOES. Ever read the possible side effects of those things you inject your beautiful little girl with? A lot of them include death (all have that risk from allergies...some not from allergies), and if not, things like paralysis, seizures, coma, brain damage, etc. Is that really worth the risk of possibly contracting measles, which usually is not terribly harmful?
I'm not saying don't vaccinate your kids. I'm not convinced either way (though I definitely will be by the time I have kids), so I'm NOT a proponant of no vaccines. I'm on the fence, and that's okay. I am however a BIG proponant of THINKING about things, and not doing something because everyone else does, or blindly following your doctor (doctors are a GREAT source of info obviously, and should definitely be part of your decision, I just don't think they're God, especially since only a few graduate top of their class...just sayin';).
No vaccine is 100%, so nothing is ever 100% preventable. Kelly, a doctor, just told us despite being vax'd multiple times she hasn't developed immunity to measles. Does that sound 100% to you? And no, if my invaccinated kid came down with something a vaccine could have possibly prevented, I wouldn't be crushed or hate myself, because I know there's that risk, and if I decide not to vax, I'll be okay with that risk. Plus something like measles.. I just don't see the big deal. It's almost like chicken pox, which I will DEFINITELY not be vax'ing for.
But yeah, school definitely does NOT play into my decision making process. Because even if for some bizarre reason my kids end up in school, I'll find loopholes if they're not vax'd. Not worried about it.