I remember when I was young I desperately wanted to get chicken pox, I wanted those days off school real bad. My mother on the other hand was not quite so excited about the prospect so when my friends got spotty she kept me well away. I resented it slightly when I got chicken pox at 21! Not pleasant.
Because there was no chicken pox vaccine when I was a child there were mothers that encouraged their children to get the pox when they were young. Play dates weren’t cancelled when the kids got sick, but they also weren’t planned as soon as somebody got a spot.
Some doctors believe that the actual disease is more efficient than the vaccine so the idea of hanging around children with chicken pox is not totally new (or frowned upon) but nowFacebook groups exist just for the purpose of infecting kids with the disease. If you thought that was bad (or ridiculous) try making sense of this – a service exists whereby someone whose child has chicken pox will send you an infected lollipop. Yes, a lollipop infected with chicken pox will be sent to you in the mail.
Personally, I am glad it is as illegal as it is naive. I trust (and am grateful for) the vaccine schedule.
What do you think?
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I can't understand why people would choose not to vaccinate their children. It astounds me. Who actually wants their kids to get sick? And it's not even just about when they're kids, it's when they're older. A bout of chicken pox as an adult can have you in Intensive Care. Mumps can cause sterility in boys. Measles can progress to pneumonia. Whooping cough can kill.
I mean, seriously, what is wrong with you anti vaxxers? "My mother never bothered to have me vaccinated and I turned out just fine." Oh well, that's alright then.
This is what an 80% vaccination rate can lead to:
http://www.thelocal.de/soci...
"The cases have led the German association of paediatricians (BVKJ) to revise the risk of developing encephalitis after contracting measles from 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 200"
1 in 200.
That is a massive risk to take with your child's life.
eeeew. Yet more proof that anti-vaxxers are not quite right.
'Yet more proof that anti-vaxxers are not quite right.'
Seriously?? Ok, well one might say that a an axe murderers favourite colour was green (maybe they even always used a green axe). But to then conclude that all people who like the colour green are potential axe murderers? Just a bit of a stretch! One has pretty much nothing to do with the other!
I can't imagine that all people who choose to not vaccinate are going to go that far and actually order an infected lollipop for their child - I know a lot of people equate non-vacc'ers with the worst of society, but there is always a line that people won't cross and for a lot of non vacc'ers I would humbly suggest that the line falls far short of this act!
This comment only proves your 'misunderstanding' of this other group of people, and says nothing about anti-vacc'ers!
What part of anti-vaxing is not unhinged? Please explain ANYTHING logical in the AV movement. Just one thing. Go.
Yeah, the majority of anti-vaxxers will not court disease - despite the crowing of how healthy their little darlings are, most conveniently hide behind herd immunity.