Vaccination

That last sentence is an oxymoron. You have no clue what you're talking about exactly, but they STILL make sense to you?

There's this idea that the concept of vaccines is good and pure, but that there are heavy metals and toxins in the vaccines, either due to negligence or on purpose, and that if scientists purified the substances that they put into the drugs and vaccines ─ both ─ modern medicine could actually end up being better than even naturally medicine. Do I believe this is true? I have absolutely no idea. It's only a theory that a very smart acquaintance shared with me in the past. "What if," you know? It'd be nice to imagine a world where medicinal drugs have little to no side effects and effectively help and/or eliminate illnesses.

What I do know is that one vaccine I won't touch is the flu vaccine. Haven't for years. The way I see it, I live in this body, and if I'm expected to have ill health because of the health of others, I say "pass".

I get the flu vaccine every year. I think ignorance of history is the problem of people being anti-vaxers. If you know anything about the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, or anything about polio in the 1940s-1950s, you’d be pro vaccines. Smallpox is pretty much eradicated from the face of the planet. Polio could be eradicated if people in developing countries would not be afraid of vaccines.

The world is much smaller. Let us say you do not vaccinate your children, and a person from a developing nation enters the US and infects your child with polio or measles or mumps.

It is already happening. Foolish people who refused to vaccinate their children, lost their BABIES to the measles in a town in Washington state because the people were anti vaxers. There is a reason why the average life span is high, it is because of modern medicine and vaccines.

I feel strongly about this topic because a lot of people are putting their children’s health and lives at risk for no point.

Get vaccinated, people. We need herd immunity. Good Lord, do you REALLY want smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, etc. to make a come back? I have every vaccination I can get, and am only slightly crazy. But I sure won’t give your kids measles or hepatitis by sneezing on them.

I get the flu vaccine every year. I think ignorance of history is the problem of people being anti-vaxers. If you know anything about the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, or anything about polio in the 1940s-1950s, you’d be pro vaccines. Smallpox is pretty much eradicated from the face of the planet. Polio could be eradicated if people in developing countries would not be afraid of vaccines.

The world is much smaller. Let us say you do not vaccinate your children, and a person from a developing nation enters the US and infects your child with polio or measles or mumps.

It is already happening. Foolish people who refused to vaccinate their children, lost their BABIES to the measles in a town in Washington state because the people were anti vaxers. There is a reason why the average life span is high, it is because of modern medicine and vaccines.

I feel strongly about this topic because a lot of people are putting their children’s health and lives at risk for no point.

Having been in the military I was given every vaccine known to man.

Do you have an answer as to why there are so many averse reactions to people who do take vaccines? What's your take on that?

Unless someone else is willing to live in my body for me, therefore live with the symptoms and sensations of an illness that I may get from an averse reaction to a flu vaccine ─ specifically the flu vaccine ─ then I'm not willing to take it. What I'm very passionate about is not having someone live my life for me, since they aren't inside this vessel, not that I'm happy about being in it anyway. Lived most of my life feeling as if I have no rights to my own body. Although, throughout my life, I've taken other vaccines and I haven't gotten the diseases that those vaccines prevent, but I am very iffy about the flu vaccine. What I wish would be done is that the vaccines that are normally mandatory for other babies, children, and adults were better prepared without questionable additives. You'd be far more likely to win me over to your side of the argument if they would do that, enforce it, and keep it that way.



What were your experiences with these vaccines?

Having been in the military I was given every vaccine known to man.

There are thousands of strains of influenza. The CDC tries to predict which strains will be more active before making the vaccines each year. Some years they are better at predicting which strains will be prevalent than other years.

Personally, I had the flu when I was a child, and it was miserable. Ever since I have been an adult, I get a flu vaccine every year- and have not contracted the flu.

I am a teacher, and students and teachers were dropping like flies last year, having contracted the flu. I have a lot of faith in vaccinations and in modern medicine. I suppose I should say I once was going to become a doctor, but lacked the necessary brain power and drive. I know how much doctors must study and know, and I trust their judgment about my health.

You do what you want with your body, and I will do what I want with mine. Everything you said about modern medicine I wholeheartedly disagree with. Unless I'm dying in a hospital and natural medicine can't help me, then and only then will I consider medicinal drugs. Also, I haven't had the flu shot in years, but I take care of my body and my immune system and I almost never get sick. If I get anything, it's small, and it most certainly isn't the flu. Goes away within a few days when I bolster my immune system, naturally.

I am naturally curious as to why there are so many averse reactions in people who take vaccines. If medicinal drugs are so great, why does this happen? I'm asking out of sheer curiosity and not because I am judging the vaccine as bad, but rather what is put into it. I'm actually capable of having an open mind. I realize that vaccines have had somewhat of a positive impact among all of the injuries and deaths that they have caused. I think that's interesting. It's because of this that I wonder what is inside of the vaccines that cause this to happen, so that maybe we can figure it out and eliminate them so it's safe for everyone to take them, and not just the few people like you and me who didn't have averse side-effects. Just because it didn't happen to us doesn't mean that it didn't happen to anyone. It does happen. I want to know why so I can help people keep it from happening.

I think any averse reactions are extremely small in proportion to what vaccines have been able to accomplish over the past 100 years (at least). A lot of the data linking autism to vaccines is actually false, compiled by a doctor who’s license to practice has been revoked and who’s research was found to be falsified. Apparently he was in the pay of people who are anti vaxxers.

The cost ratio of vaccinations are very low. For instance, a small number of people are allergic to penicillin (myself included). When I was a baby, I had an averse reaction to an antibiotic. This did not make my mother hysterical and be anti- penicillin. Penicillin is an excellent antibiotic that helps hundreds of thousands of people get better.

The same is the case with vaccines.

I don’t think either of us will convince the other. I am pro modern medicine and you are pro homeopathy. There is a difference in world views, I do believe.