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In reply to the discussion: Measles is back: A mother's story, from today's LA Times: [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)Have you looked at the stats? How many died before we got these vaccines? How many were permanently disabled? When you just erase them from your rosy picture of how you were tough enough, remember all the families that weren't as lucky as yours. There were a lot more of them when you were a kid, than when I was born in the 70s. We didn't have to worry about contracting polio. That was solely due to vaccination.
How many of the girls in the anti-vaxx families will contract measles as adults, and give birth to deformed children? How many of the boys will become sterile as adults, because they contract the mumps? How many children will develop heart trouble when they contract scarlet fever, vision troubles from measles? How many will die of pertussis, diphteria, meningitis, and other diseases that we have vaccines against? How many of your generation experienced this, and never talked about it so that you can blithely say that you survived it, so no big deal?
People who deliberately and without medical reason refuse to vaccinate their children are stupid, selfish, self-absorbed twits.