It is normally a benign disease in kids. Yes, I saw your context, so I believe that the vaccine a good idea for adolescents and adults who aren’t immune to chicken pox. Did you read the NHS link?
Obviously. (Shrugging). But that assessment was also written by infectious disease experts. There’s clearly too much unsettled science to call for a mandate.
That is the very definition of an anti-vaxxer. Those are the people we’re talking about. They’re all over the Internet, they’re the subject of documentaries, they’re quoted in publications, they are real and they are dangerous. They’ve written books and they’re in parenting groups.
That assumes one has a certain disease. Fortunately, children are not very likely to ever get most of these diseases, but only thanks to those who are willing to vaccinate their children. Those that do not (as a matter of choice only), want the immunity others provide without taking any risk personally with their child, however slight (makes me wonder why they ever put a kid in a car). This too is a moral consideration. Should a parent be afforded that protection if they do not want to protect others?
Brace yourself. I am in my late 60s. I grew up in a family that did not vaccinate. My grandfather was an alternative health practitioner, starting back in the 1920s and decided that vaccines were dangerous, probably because he saw someone with a bad reaction. Smallpox vaccines being what they were, reactions were quite common.
One of the reasons I distrust the people who are strongly pushing for vaccine mandates is their distortion of the wide range of opinions that exist in relation to vaccines, mandates, medical choice and so on. Anyone who asks a question is quite likely to be attacked as “anti-vaccine”.
Since I was a child back in the 1950s, when the list of available vaccines was quite short, I know first hand the horrors of unchecked childhood illnesses. I am a real life survivor of chickenpox, measles, mumps, rubella and probably one or two more. Alas for your belief system, none of them were particularly horrific. Measles was the worst, mostly because we were living in a 2 room apartment in a poor neighborhood. Two adults and 5 children.
It’s simple.
Absolutely true.
They are few and far between. I didn’t say all of them and I didn’t say all of your generation was for them. You are rare and not the rule.
“Brace yourself”? LOL - for what, exactly? You’re in your late sixties; you actually aren’t even old to me. My mother is just about old enough to be your mother. My brother is only a few years younger than you. You’re hardly from “the old days”.
No clue why you find my sister’s vaccination stance cute or amusing, but to each their own.I can’t find the data but can dig for it. The last I heard, 0.8% of schoolchildren have never been vaccinated. 1.8% haven’t been completely vaccinated on schedule. When you consider that many of those 0.8% may have come from the same family, there are even fewer adults who would truly identify as “anti-vaccination,” your sister being among them.
When the media fans the fear flames about the Big Eveeeeeeel Anti-Vaccination movement, they’re spewing hyperbole. Which is what they do, anyway.
Given the state of CA, I don’t know that I’d borrow much of anything from them.