I've never given much thought to vaccines because I usually don't bother with them. Now that I have kids and one of them is attending kindergarten, I've been reading up on these stories of how bad these vaccines are. My daughter, after the first week of school, was already hit with the seasonal flu. She was down and out for almost a week. Fortunately, we have pretty good quarantine routines in our house and it didn't spread to anyone else... esp. the 2 year old.
After reading this thread with all the stories and rebuttals, I don't know what to believe. There has to be some truth to the dangers of the ingredients in the vaccine and there must also be some truth to the fact that if it was dangerous it wouldn't be administered to the general population. Then it got me thinking that some dangers really don't effect you until years later. This is what has me worried. I don't want to subject my kids to these things without question and then years later somebody figures out that the reason for the steady increase of <insert your favorite mental disorder here> was linked to the ingredient that was in the yearly vaccine.
For example, stuff like asbestos, PCB, BPA, lead paint, etc, etc, were considered "okay" until years later people started developing problems. Will it be the same thing with these vaccines?
It would be interesting to know whether the people who actually developed the vaccine (the scientists all the way up the chain to upper management) are injecting themselves with it too...
