Do you not need to be vaccinated to go to school? Or was that changed? I'm certain I remember having to get my booster shot just before starting school.
Is Measles a really big deal?
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Do you not need to be vaccinated to go to school? Or was that changed? I'm certain I remember having to get my booster shot just before starting school.
Do you ever look at the decisions that get made and think "We really put all the wrong people in charge?"
Or is it just me?
every f*cking day...I do not understand suspending a kid for being behind and free reining a kid whose parents are full of needle fearDo you ever look at the decisions that get made and think "We really put all the wrong people in charge?"
Or is it just me?
I get our rights to say no, but then there have to be consequences and measles isn't the flu it kills healthy kids too
When you have some spare time surf the "Rate your M.D." site and you'll see quite a few patients bad mouthed doctors who wouldn't advise alternative measures to vaccinations!
Measles had been virtually eradicated from the US and Canada by the year 2000. Why has it sprung back so virulently?
I remember having measles as a kid. Thing I remember most was that mom would always get me cottage cheese when I was sick because I liked it. But I remember that everything tasted really bad when I had the measles and I didn't want to eat anything.
oh,,,and seven up.
oh,,,and seven up.
Of all the child hood diseases, I think I suffered the worst with the chicken pox. It was like the worst case of flu in my life for several days until the pox appeared and I realized what it was.
MacPherson: Undecided on vaccination? Visit a cemetery
By Les Macpherson, The Starphoenix February 3, 2015
The anti-immunization movement is baffling, especially for taphophiles. A taphophile is someone who enjoys visiting cemeteries. I am a bit of a taphophile myself. I don't plan my vacations around cemetery tours or anything like that, but if I get a chance to mooch around an old cemetery, I am in there.
I relish the tranquillity of a cemetery. The deceased are quiet. They make no demands. Some people worry that cemeteries might be haunted, but I can assure them there is a lot more moaning and groaning among the living. Except at burial services, the cemetery is a refuge from moaning and groaning. The only haunting is by taphophiles.
We have lots of material to work with. In Saskatchewan there are more than 3,000 cemeteries, some going back to the 1800s. Nutana Cemetery on the riverbank at the west end of Ruth Street accepted its first patron in the spring of 1884: Robert Clark, father and husband, 45 years old, died from exhaustion while fighting a prairie fire. Today, he would have been zapped with a defibrillator and then had his heart pipes reamed out in hospital and he'd live long enough to need Level 4 care.
Something that always impresses me about old cemeteries is the number of young people dead and buried. Today, it is rare for younger people to die. Until the 1950s, it was not rare at all. Children, teenagers and young adults always are well represented in older cemeteries.
Mostly it was infectious diseases that killed these young people. Polio, typhoid, cholera, diphtheria, whooping cough, typhoid fever ... these were among the cards that people routinely were dealt. Everyone was touched. My father was desperately ill as a child with whooping cough. He survived. Others did not. My mother lost her younger brother to some fever or other, one of a constellation of deadly contagions then prevalent.
The last really terrifying epidemic was in 1952, when polio killed more than 90 people in Saskatchewan and left hundreds more permanently disabled. Everyone of my generation knows people more or less hobbled by polio. From more than 1,200 cases reported in that terrible year, the incidence of polio by 1964 fell to zero. As with so many other infectious diseases, polio was conquered by mass vaccination.
It figures that the people who reject or simply neglect immunization have not lived through a terrible epidemic. To those who have, immunization came as miraculous deliverance from a hitherto pervasive, mortal threat.
Smallpox epidemics used to kill people faster than they could be buried. This ancient scourge of humanity now is eradicated thanks to mass immunization. What does the anti-vaccine camp have to match this historic, life-saving achievement in public health? Jenny McCarthy? It's a good thing smallpox was eradicated before people started believing, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that vaccines are toxic.
Now it is measles on the march, with more than 100 cases reported in the U.S. in recent days and now four cases in Toronto. Measles is a fairly minor malady where decent living standards and health care prevail. Elsewhere, an estimated 158,000 people a year die from measles, most of them children. Vaccinations could prevent all those deaths. We should be eradicating measles as we did with smallpox, as we almost have done with polio. Instead, we are letting measles off the mat and back into the game.
U.S. President Barack Obama this week was reduced by the measles outbreak to promoting immunization. What's to promote? Medical science has given us a way to protect ourselves and our children, for free in most jurisdictions, from diseases that used to kill people in massive numbers. Immunization from infectious diseases is among the best things ever. It shouldn't need a lot of promotion. Instead, we are approaching a time when misguided or irresponsible parents will have to be pressured somehow into getting their kids vaccinated.
You know who will never have to be pressured into getting their kids vaccinated? People who mooch around old cemeteries, that's who.
© Copyright (c) The StarPhoenix
MacPherson: Undecided on vaccination? Visit a cemetery
By Les Macpherson, The Starphoenix February 3, 2015
The anti-immunization movement is baffling, especially for taphophiles. A taphophile is someone who enjoys visiting cemeteries. I am a bit of a taphophile myself. I don't plan my vacations around cemetery tours or anything like that, but if I get a chance to mooch around an old cemetery, I am in there.
I relish the tranquillity of a cemetery. The deceased are quiet. They make no demands. Some people worry that cemeteries might be haunted, but I can assure them there is a lot more moaning and groaning among the living. Except at burial services, the cemetery is a refuge from moaning and groaning. The only haunting is by taphophiles.
We have lots of material to work with. In Saskatchewan there are more than 3,000 cemeteries, some going back to the 1800s. Nutana Cemetery on the riverbank at the west end of Ruth Street accepted its first patron in the spring of 1884: Robert Clark, father and husband, 45 years old, died from exhaustion while fighting a prairie fire. Today, he would have been zapped with a defibrillator and then had his heart pipes reamed out in hospital and he'd live long enough to need Level 4 care.
Something that always impresses me about old cemeteries is the number of young people dead and buried. Today, it is rare for younger people to die. Until the 1950s, it was not rare at all. Children, teenagers and young adults always are well represented in older cemeteries.
Mostly it was infectious diseases that killed these young people. Polio, typhoid, cholera, diphtheria, whooping cough, typhoid fever ... these were among the cards that people routinely were dealt. Everyone was touched. My father was desperately ill as a child with whooping cough. He survived. Others did not. My mother lost her younger brother to some fever or other, one of a constellation of deadly contagions then prevalent.
The last really terrifying epidemic was in 1952, when polio killed more than 90 people in Saskatchewan and left hundreds more permanently disabled. Everyone of my generation knows people more or less hobbled by polio. From more than 1,200 cases reported in that terrible year, the incidence of polio by 1964 fell to zero. As with so many other infectious diseases, polio was conquered by mass vaccination.
It figures that the people who reject or simply neglect immunization have not lived through a terrible epidemic. To those who have, immunization came as miraculous deliverance from a hitherto pervasive, mortal threat.
Smallpox epidemics used to kill people faster than they could be buried. This ancient scourge of humanity now is eradicated thanks to mass immunization. What does the anti-vaccine camp have to match this historic, life-saving achievement in public health? Jenny McCarthy? It's a good thing smallpox was eradicated before people started believing, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that vaccines are toxic.
Now it is measles on the march, with more than 100 cases reported in the U.S. in recent days and now four cases in Toronto. Measles is a fairly minor malady where decent living standards and health care prevail. Elsewhere, an estimated 158,000 people a year die from measles, most of them children. Vaccinations could prevent all those deaths. We should be eradicating measles as we did with smallpox, as we almost have done with polio. Instead, we are letting measles off the mat and back into the game.
U.S. President Barack Obama this week was reduced by the measles outbreak to promoting immunization. What's to promote? Medical science has given us a way to protect ourselves and our children, for free in most jurisdictions, from diseases that used to kill people in massive numbers. Immunization from infectious diseases is among the best things ever. It shouldn't need a lot of promotion. Instead, we are approaching a time when misguided or irresponsible parents will have to be pressured somehow into getting their kids vaccinated.
You know who will never have to be pressured into getting their kids vaccinated? People who mooch around old cemeteries, that's who.
© Copyright (c) The StarPhoenix
MacPherson: Undecided on vaccination? Visit a cemetery
God doesn't seem very nice.
Imo measles has come back due to reduced herd immunity from lack of vaccinations, and an influx of illegal aliens without health screening. The return of measles is concurrent with an influx of illegal minors who have now entered the public school system. I don't think that's a coincidence.
It's not measles that worry me. This is just the precursor, wait until polio makes a big comeback.
It may not be your problem specifically but it's a horrible thing. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.