A friend sent this to me and I thought I would share
There’s a manual that every Navy gunnery officer was required to read or re-read every year: OP 1014; Ordnance Safety Precautions: Their Origin and Necessity. It’s a collection of stories about, and photographs of, spectacular accidents involving big guns and ammunition. Gun turrets that have fired on other gun turrets on the same ship. Holes in the coral where ammunition ships were formerly anchored. That sort of thing. It’s simultaneously grim and fascinating.
Nowadays there’s some kind of movement afoot for claiming that immunization against common childhood diseases is unnecessary. That they cause disease. That they’re harmful. It is true that rare adverse reactions to immunizations occur. It is also true that adverse reactions to the diseases themselves are not at all rare if you don’t immunize. So let’s call this post Immunizations: Their Origin and Necessity.
FABULOUS article.
I am a major proponent of vaccinaation. I nearly died from measles and their complications, and because my mother had German measles (Rubella) when she was expecting me, I had deafness, low birth weight and heart abnormalities as well as minor CP.
I had friends who got polio and post polio and had a friend whose mother died.. I was 6. I couldn't imagine a mommy dying.
I personally think that vaccinations must be mandatory.. not vaccinating is child abuse.
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kathy_in_wlsv2009-03-03 12:03:33Really good, Lynn. Parents not vaccinating their children is, and should be, scary to us all...
I have a friend who refused to vaccinate her children because she was against putting toxins in her children's bodies. She also has her whole family on a vegan diet. She also has silicon breast implants.... I have pointed out this irony to her, but she seems to be totally unmoved by reason.
Excellent article My father had polio as a child. He was 3 and in an iron lung. Somehow, he recovered and does not have complications.
We are studying viruses currently and I am giving notes on this topic next week. It's one thing if a person's actions affect their family. But the choice to not vaccinate affects us all.
[QUOTE=kathy_in_wlsv]FABULOUS article.
I am a major proponent of vaccinaation. I nearly died from measles and their complications, and because my mother had German measles (Rubella) when she was expecting me, I had deafness, low birth weight and heart abnormalities as well as minor CP.
I had friends who got polio and post polio and had a friend whose mother died.. I was 6. I couldn't imagine a mommy dying.
I personally think that vaccinations must be mandatory.. not vaccinating is child abuse.
(edited for lousy spelling and typos... RA hands today)
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I think a lot of the problem is that some people have never seen the devastating results of these illnesses....Being 51, I remember them quite well My dad had polio as a youngster. He was in a hospital in Chicago from the time he was 2 to 11 years old. One of his legs was alot smaller than his other but he survived and worked as a auto glass installer for over 30 years. It was sad to hear his story because his parents were poor and couldn't leave the other 8 children to visit. It's a 5 hour drive and they didn't even own a car in the 30's. His parents and siblings never treated him any different. He played baseball and was prom king and a lady's man. LOL He passed in 2002 and I miss him so much. He was such an inspiration and still is to me. I always tell myself that he survived polio and had a great life so I can survive ra. I made sure when I had children to keep their vaccinations up to date. I agree for the most part. I do not think, though, that such things as chickenpox or HPV vaccines should be mandatory.
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