Get your kids vaccinated. Don't believe the bullshit out there.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
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Get your kids vaccinated. Don't believe the bullshit out there.
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You know, it's REALLY PATHETIC that 40 years after this public service announcement first ran, we need it now more than we did then.
Get your kids vaccinated. Don't believe the bullshit out there.
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Get your kids vaccinated. Don't believe the bullshit out there.
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Cast of Characters:
Annie: My Phenomenal MA
Mary: My Awesome Secretary
Ed: The office fish
Dr. Pissy: The guy I share an office with
Mrs. Grumpy: My Boss (also the world's greatest school nurse)
Frank, Craig, and Marie: The Grumpy Tribe
Garlic and Riley: The Grumpy Dogs
Questions? Comments? Biting sarcasm? Write to: pagingdrgrumpy [at] gmail [dot] com
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19 comments:
I just hope they don't put Jar-Jar Binks in the new posters, or we're all doomed.
Amen!!!
Thank you. I am so pro-vaxxx. If there is a vaccination, I want it! I was even vaccinated against smallpox when I was a baby! They stopped routinely giving the smallpox vaccination in 1972, so I was probably one of the last people to have it, but still, I was vaccinated.
A few months ago a person I know was asking, on Facebook, for opinions about the HPV vaccination for her sons. I said they should have it, everyone else said it was horrible. She finally decided against getting it and said they don't do flu shots, either. All 3 of her kids currently have the flu. They get the flu every single year. I don't understand anti-vaxxers.
You see??? Vaccination is just an evil plot by the robots to help them enslave humans!!!
I sent out a notice to our staff (medical people) reminding them that there was an outbreak of red measles now, and if they hadn't already, to get their immunization status checked.
One actually emailed back and said that everyone should just take Vitamin A.
Thanks, Grumpy.
I had measles at 3, a year before the vaccine came out. I don’t remember much about it, but at one point my parents were calling area funeral homes.
Likewise my father, born 1927, barely survived diphtheria at age 2; my mother, born 1929, was laid up for months by pneumonia at 6. What kind of parents want to inflict such suffering upon their own children?
There ought to be a law. Oh, wait, there WAS. And then came the stupidity of personal and religious exemptions. As a friend says: "You only need to vaccinate the children you want to keep."
Sadly the same situation exists here in Australia. My father suffered the late effects of polio and I lost, 130dB loss, hearing in my left ear from the months. I rely on herd immunity for flu vaccinations as Ham allergic to egg yolk. Needless to say I am pro vaccination. I also anxiously await a vaccination that is not egg based for the flu etc.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/08/unvaccinated-boy-infected-with-tetanus-spent-months-in-hospital-costing-family-nearly-1m/
The Salk polio vaccine was released in my early childhood. My mother was an R. N. She had a photo of people lined up outside her clinic to get vaccinated. In those days, everybody wanted to be vaccinated.
I suspect these people are college-eddicated and have a large family farm. If it was a vegetable patch behind the single-wide trailer, the poor kid would have been rescued from them.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/boy-spent-47-agonizing-days-in-icu-with-tetanus-parents-still-refuse-vaccines/
I went thru a period of doubting vaccinations when my kids were little (no Internet back then). Fortunately, I did have them vaccinated in spite of the scary stories I was hearing. One thing that convinced me to do it was knowing that before I was born, my dad (b. 1922) nearly died from measles. Mom didn't realize until much later how sick he was - she nursed him thru it at home. I was vaccinated for polio & (I think) smallpox, but the others weren't available then. I don't remember much about how I felt with measles, mumps, & chicken pox, but I know it wasn't fun. Even tho I've never had the flu, I decided to start getting the flu shot because I'm old. Pneumonia, too, & tetanus.
I had a classmate who missed the polio vaccination & knew several adults who got polio before the vaccination was available. That's not something I would wish on anyone.
I find your lack of faith in vaccination disturbing.
There is a cemetery 4 miles from my house. There is a grave marker, with the inscriptions of 6 children in the same family, infant to age 13, 5 of whom died between Dec 23, 1877, and January 9, 1878. The 6th child died in March 1878. Diptheria.
Vaccinations save lives.
As for the tetanus, my grandfather's brother died from lockjaw (as it was called then, early 1900's) at the young age of 23, leaving a wife and small child. There were no vaccinations then either.
Week before I started boot camp in 1984, the Navy stopped giving smallpox vaccines.
I still remember seeing other recruits with vaccination scabs, but we never got one.
Yellow Fever vaccine made me sick though. 101+ fever 2 days before graduation
I grew up in the era of 'God helps them that what helps themselves' and the tale of Togo, Leonard Seppala's lead dog in the Race to Nome carrying 300,000 units of diphtheria serum to unvaccinated villagers. No hocus-pocus up there on the homestead.
My partner had mumps at age 12 - the MMR vaccine was available but his mom was a 'nervous Nelly' and the local GP hadn't been able to convince her that her kids needed it. HIs sisters didn't catch mumps from him. But he ended up with the usual result of very high fever and severe edema in gonads.
It's not the imaginary side effects that we need to worry about - it is the actual DISEASE!
You can keep your shitty vaccines.
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