Vaccinations are the Enemy!

I don’t understand this concept at all. People read some crap on a less than reputable website or read an article put out by someone with no medical background and no experience in science in general and they latch on and say it’s true

Okay I’m okay with spreading shots out, not that I understand it. You don’t have to spread out shots. They don’t over load your child’s immune system and they sure as hell don’t weaken it.

Myth 1: Getting so many vaccines will overwhelm my child’s immune system.

No doubt about it, the immunization schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) can seem daunting. Your child can receive up to 23 shots by the time she’s 2 years old and as many as six shots at a single doctor visit. So it’s not surprising that many parents have concerns about how vaccines might affect a child’s developing immunity and often cite these as a reason to refuse a vaccine.But it should be the least of your worries. “Children have an enormous capacity to respond safely to challenges to the immune system from vaccines,” says Dr. Offit. “A baby’s body is bombarded with immunologic challenges  – from bacteria in food to the dust they breathe. Compared to what they typically encounter and manage during the day, vaccines are literally a drop in the ocean.” In fact, Dr. Offit’s studies show that in theory, healthy infants could safely get up to 100,000 vaccines at once.

The bottom line: It’s safe to give your child simultaneous vaccines or vaccine combinations, such as the five-in-one vaccine called Pediarix, which protects against hepatitis B, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (also known as whooping cough). Equally important, vaccines are as effective given in combination as they are given individually.

Seriously read that, right there from a medical professional. But wait it will be ignored because apparently that medical professional doesn’t know a damn thing and something they read on the Internet instead is going to to override it. They’ll say they did their research too. BS! So your research consisted of reading two to three articles and biased sites against vaccinations and ignoring the 100s of professional articles you can find online?

Here are some “professional” articles out of journals found in the library at my school:

PDF – Risks of Vaccinations

PDF – GACVS Findings on Vaccinations

Webpage- Vaccinations and Autism

And I’m sorry you’re a fucking moron if you believe this isn’t a public health issue, that your choice has no effect on anyone.

Myth 2: As long as other children are getting vaccinated, mine don’t need to be.

Skipping vaccinations puts your baby at greater risk for potentially life-threatening diseases. “The ability of immunizations to prevent the spread of infection depends on having a certain number of children immunized,” says Thomas Saari, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison. “Scientists refer to this as ‘herd immunity.’ Unfortunately, the level of immunization required to prevent diseases such as measles from spreading from child to child is high  – 95 percent.” In 2003, the national vaccination rate in children ages 19 to 35 months was only about 80 percent  – though that number increases to the mid-90s when children reach school age.

It’s funny because these people call those that do vaccinate the ignorant ones, that we don’t do research. See the thing is we have research to back us up while they don’t have any research to back them up that would be considered unbiased and even remotely conclusive.

You know what the problem is and it’s funny because I was told this by someone who doesn’t vaccinate. The media, and the ability to put up random information as fact on the Internet has swayed people. People read one thing and grab onto it. The media grabs onto something and then people believe it without even thinking to look up the facts. People don’t even realize that links to Autism were discredited and the doctors that did that study recanted and told what they had done wrong in that study. But people still cite it. People doesn’t recognize that although vaccinations are done less in other countries, their rates of Autism are still rising. I mean if vaccinations were causing the problems, wouldn’t it go down when they stopped doing them?

Or could it just be that our diagnostic tools are just getting better? I mean seriously things that were seen as just bad behavior are now seen as Autistic. Perhaps we’re just diagnosing the problem more thoroughly than we did before? Or hey what about this, maybe it’s what you feed your damn child that is causing the problem? Or the area you live and the chemicals in the air? Instead of looking at what is most likely causing the problem, food and the area you live in, they latch to the vaccinations and then say that they’re proof it’s true that vaccinations cause Autism when their child doesn’t get it.

Anyhow this is just something that chapps my ass. I don’t understand the lack of education parents have. I don’t understand why the government allows it either.

Link to the Top Ten Myths of Vaccinations (Baby Talk Magazine)

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