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healthnut7

(249 posts)

30. Sad!!

Reply to shraby (Original post)

Sat Aug 25, 2018, 05:17 PM

Aug 2018

There's been vaccines found so that children will not have endure diseases that killed many children years ago. Yes there is a rare chance something could happen to your child from the vaccine but the odds are very slim. IMO parents are foolish to not go ahead and have them protected.

There is also a chance that your child could die crossing the street, playing ball, swinging on a swing but we still let them do these things. Sorry will never understand any reasons to not do this and watch them suffer from the disease or worse, die.

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For those who don't believe in vaccinations. How would you like to be this parent? [View all] shraby Aug 2018 OP

I've seen anti-vaxxers write that things like this happened after... Archae Aug 2018 #1

I just can't imagine having 3 children around the dinner table shraby Aug 2018 #2

My Mom still remembers the polio scares. Archae Aug 2018 #3

We were sent to bed early so we got plenty of rest. Mom didn't want to take shraby Aug 2018 #5

Every school I ever attended had its share of children in metal leg braces using crutches. ... Hekate Aug 2018 #13

Tour any historic cemetary. flamin lib Aug 2018 #4

Many times they didn't even name them right away until they were sure they would shraby Aug 2018 #6

Lots of Baby Does. The other interesting thing flamin lib Aug 2018 #9

If anti-vaxxers ignore facts they can ignore history. Sneederbunk Aug 2018 #7

Thanks to Facebook echo chambers, my own daughter is convinced her baby died of vaccinations Hekate Aug 2018 #8

That's awful jberryhill Aug 2018 #10

I'm sorry. Some people are destined to learn the hard way. shraby Aug 2018 #12

I wondered about that, Hekate. pnwmom Aug 2018 #14

It is absolutely beyond words to lose a child. Hekate Aug 2018 #16

How sad for all of you, Hekate. 3catwoman3 Aug 2018 #32

How would you like to be my mother in 1960, when her baby died the day after her DPT? pnwmom Aug 2018 #11

I think you are a very wise woman. nt Hekate Aug 2018 #15

I'm so sorry about what's happened with your daughter, Hekate. pnwmom Aug 2018 #17

I think one of the lies that's been peddled is that there was no SIDS before vaccines... Hekate Aug 2018 #19

Well, we KNOW that wasn't true. And they markedly lowered the rate pnwmom Aug 2018 #21

I put obituaries of babies on my site who died of what we now call SIDS. shraby Aug 2018 #22

I come from a period of time when the health department came into the schools and shraby Aug 2018 #18

Me, too. And bad reactions don't usually happen instantly, so you wouldn't have known. pnwmom Aug 2018 #20

We have just had a measles alert here in eastern MA (Lexington) smirkymonkey Aug 2018 #23

I had measles, a severe case, in third grade. jeffreyi Aug 2018 #24

When you read historical novels, you always find the injunction to shut the curtains... Hekate Aug 2018 #28

I had both kinds of measles as a child. llmart Aug 2018 #29

Measles Confirmed in North Texas. MicaelS Aug 2018 #25

vaccination is not a religion; it works regardless of your beliefs AlexSFCA Aug 2018 #26

Anti-vaxxers behave exactly like they have found religion, otoh. nt Hekate Aug 2018 #27

Sad!! healthnut7 Aug 2018 #30

Being a child or a woman Turbineguy Aug 2018 #31