vaccinate your kids, or else!!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by ISUKappa

I agree vaccinating is extremely beneficial. However, I don't agree with the current schedule that has infants and children sometimes getting 3-4 shots (covering up to 6 illnesses) all at once. We accidentally delayed some of my son's vaxes and plan to use an alternate vax schedule for any future kids to where the shots are spaced out more and done when the kids are older.

Not having kids, I don't have an opinion myself, but I've heard this criticism a lot. One more thing for me to worry about when I become a parent.

Originally Posted by texas*princess

I'm definitely in agreement that it's the responsible thing to do [to vaccinate children].

This came up on CNN this morning and a woman that was protesting the rule, said "these diseases haven't been around for a long time"

I'm not certain which disease she was talking about, but could it be there haven't been major cases because people have been getting immunized for the last few decades???

One big No Shit Sherlock to her. It's right up there with "we survived for years without vaccines." Yeah, some of you did. People don't get the concept of herd immunity. If she was just endangering her own children, it wouldn't be as big of a deal, (kinda), but she endangers every child in that class. Vaccines aren't 100% effective, but when your entire population is "mostly" immune, you don't have outbreaks.