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Immunizations/Vaccinations

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How do you stand on immunizations/vaccinations?

  • For.

    Votes: 50 84.7%

  • Against.

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • Indifferent/Other.

    Votes: 6 10.2%
  • Total voters
    59
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NJ-Buckeye said:
Saw numerous news clips and web stories in last 2 days about parents asking for advice since they never had their kids vaccinated...
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To be fair, maybe that specific lady's kid has some auto-immunity condition and wasn't able to be vaccinated. That would be a nightmare. Knowing your child has a higher chance of dying from a disease that all but disappeared but is making a comeback because some dipshits took medical advice from a former playmate
 
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Being at ground zero (Vancouver is right across the river) has been eye opening--and really surprised it hasn't spread to Portland yet. Evergreen school district (the 'Couvs main one) has a fuckin' 84% vaccination rate (Portland's isn't great at 93%--a lot harder to opt out in OR than WA--but 84%?). Mind boggling.
 
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Unvaccinated teens are fact-checking their parents — and trying to get shots on their own

Ethan Lindenberger, frustrated by years of arguments about his mother’s anti-vaccination stance, staged a quiet defection on Reddit.
The Norwalk, Ohio, teenager needed advice, he said, on how to inoculate himself against both infectious disease and his family’s dogma. At 18, he was old enough, Lindenberger explained. He wanted to get vaccinated. But he didn’t know how.
“Because of their beliefs I’ve never been vaccinated for anything, God knows how I’m still alive,” Lindenberger wrote days before Thanksgiving.
As anti-vaccination movements metastasize amid outbreaks of dangerous diseases, Internet-savvy teenagers are fact-checking their parents’ decisions in a digital health reawakening — and seeking their own treatments in bouts of family defiance.
“This generation of unvaccinated children coming of age has looked at the science and want to protect themselves,” said Allison Winnike, president and chief executive of the Immunization Partnership, a Texas-based nonprofit vaccine advocacy group.
Anti-vaccination efforts spread after the publication of a now-debunked 1998 study linking some immunizations to autism, Winnike said.
“Now you’re seeing children coming of age, out from a cloud of misinformation,” Winnike told The Washington Post on Monday.
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Add intra-family strife to the consequences of anti-vax:

“I looked into it; it was clear there was way more evidence in defense of vaccines,” he said.
His mother, Jill Wheeler, resisted; she claimed vaccines are health risks.
Wheeler was angered by his pursuit, she told Undark. “It was like him spitting on me, saying ‘You don’t know anything, I don’t trust you with anything. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You did make a bad decision and I’m gonna go fix it,’ ” she told the site.
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