Why you should vaccinate?

There’s a few points to this. First off, forget that bloody autism thing!

That was proven to be false and the doctor who even now, still blabbers on about it was struck off the medical register because of the damage he’d done. He’s not a doctor anymore. Can’t even legally call himself a doctor and can’t operate as one. He’s the best “expert” the antivaccination morons can come up with. Not a good track record, eh?

The only reason they found a correlation between vaccinations and autism was because the kids usually express that trait at around the time vaccines are first given but correlation does not equal causation. It just happens to coincide with the age kids normally have autism detected in the first place.

Now, what would you prefer? Let’s look at the alternatives...

Vaccinate or....

Measels... Sometimes life threatening, complications can include earache, misaligned eyes, convultions and blindness, meningitis and pneumonia, not to mention the afformentioned death. In pregant women, miscarraige, premature birth and low birth weight...

Mumps... How does incredibly painful swollen testicles sound to you, possibly leading to infertility? The same can happen in women, swollen ovaries... again, you can get meningitis from it and that can be fatal if it reaches the brain.

German measels/Rubella. Mainly a risk to pregnant women, miscarraige and severe disabiities in the baby. Blindness, deafness or brain damage. Do you want to be responsible for that, because if you don’t vaccinate you’re kid, you are. You’re creating a vector for the disease to spread.

Of course, those are just the three that go with the MMR vaccine. What about polio? Very nasty? What about whooping cough? Tuberculosis? Diptheria?

And it’s best not to even consider the chicken pox party thing. “Once you’ve caught chicken pox you can’t get it again?” Wrong.

In later life, if you’ve had it, it can come back as shingles. It’s a member of the herpes family and it never leaves your body.

The key to vaccination is herd immunity. If enough kids are immunised then the viruses won’t spread, even if there are a few who haven’t. If you don’t vaccinate your child, you’re hurting other people, not just the kid. You’re spreading the disease and some kids can’t be immunised due to medical conditions that compromise their immune systems.

You’re risking the life of other people’s kids because of your pigheadedness.

Do you want that?