Deadly Diseases Like Measles And Mumps Make Frightening Comeback « CBS Baltimore.
Just how serious a problem is it when a child gets sick? Summer Robinson experienced it firsthand. Her son, Roarik, was just three-weeks-old when whooping cough put him in intensive care for five days and nearly killed him.
Bui: “When you went to the hospital and he was diagnosed with whooping cough, what went through your mind?”
Robinson: “You worry about, are they going to start breathing again? If they do start breathing, how long have they not been breathing? What are the side effects of that going to be? It’s just so scary.”
Too young for the recommended vaccine, Roarik was defenseless. He’s living proof one contagious person can start an outbreak.
“If your ten-year-old has it and you’re in Walmart near my three-week-old baby, you could essentially kill my three-week-old baby because you didn’t want to vaccinate your child,” said Johnson.
For those of you who don’t vaccinate your children. You’re not better than us, or a smarter than us, although you MAY be a member of the so called “intellectual elite” that makes you believe so. What you are, quite clearly, is STOOPIDER THAN US and more SELFISH than us.
added: Counterpoint from the comments:
Ok, look, one vaccine here, another there, some time in between is one thing, but if any of you don’t bother to even question why “children may receive as many as 20 shots by two years of age and up to five shots in a single visit. By age two, children born today will have three doses of hepatitis B, four doses of DTP, four doses of Hib, three doses of polio, four doses of PCV, one dose of MMR, and one dose of chicken pox vaccine. At around four to six years they will be given booster doses of DTP and polio and second doses of MMR and chicken pox.” WHEREAS from the 50’s..”By the mid 1980s, there were seven vaccines routinely given to children: DTP; measles, mumps, rubella (MMR); and polio (smallpox was discontinued in the early 1970s). DTP and MMR were given in two shots, and polio vaccine was given by mouth. Children still received five shots by the time they were two years of age and not more than one shot at a single visit.” See, it’s the amount and frequency that I question–that all should question. I’m a savvy parent–I QUESTION IT. Plus, pesky editorializing here–were all these outbreaks happening in kids that were not vaccinated? The article implies such, but does not go into detail over ddx of these outbreaks.
I’m sympathetic to that argument of so many vaccines in such a short time. Seems above and beyond.
On not so serious of level and to hijack my own post, it reminds me of what I consider the overtesting of students today. To be clear, I AM a proponent of testing to both evaluate the student and the teaching process. BUT the number and length of testing has simply gotten out of control. If I had it to do over again, I would be actively looking at ways of minimizing my childs participation in the testing.
Fill in the bubble testing may be good for diagnostic testing, but not for evaluating whether a student “gets” the subject.
My hot button is math and IMHO they establishment is so busy teaching the “zen of math” and making simple things complicated that students don’t stand a chance.