now that vaccines are nuked in US, what can I catch from unvaxxed kids?

[Anonymous]

If someone hasn't paid very close attention to their vaccines and boosters, which specific diseases should middle aged adults be concerned about potentially contracting from unwanted children now that RFK's ACIP has basically blown up 60 years of public health and vax progress?

I'm very worried now about being exposed in the future to inordinate numbers of kids who are no longer valued.

Which boosters should adults get specifically now to protect against the tidal wave of stupidity coming?

[Anonymous]

TDAP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If someone hasn't paid very close attention to their vaccines and boosters, which specific diseases should middle aged adults be concerned about potentially contracting from unwanted children now that RFK's ACIP has basically blown up 60 years of public health and vax progress?

I'm very worried now about being exposed in the future to inordinate numbers of kids who are no longer valued.

Which boosters should adults get specifically now to protect against the tidal wave of stupidity coming?

OP, why don't you tell us what you mean by "unwanted children."

[Anonymous]

^Uwanted = unvaxxed

Autocorrect

[Anonymous]

Measles and pertussis

[Anonymous]

Meeting was bonkers but the premise of your q is mistaken. Or you are a troll. Which?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Measles and pertussis

I know these are the one we are talking about and are most familiar with, but the real bogeyman is diphtheria. It can turn fulminant in a matter of hours. The pesudomembrane at the back of the throat suffocates you. If you survive and get better, there's still myocarditis and the other fairly common sequelae to deal with.

Graveyards have multiple family members that died within days of each other, and not just children. Your immunity from childhood vaccination wanes in adulthood if not boosted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Measles and pertussis

I know these are the one we are talking about and are most familiar with, but the real bogeyman is diphtheria. It can turn fulminant in a matter of hours. The pesudomembrane at the back of the throat suffocates you. If you survive and get better, there's still myocarditis and the other fairly common sequelae to deal with.

Graveyards have multiple family members that died within days of each other, and not just children. Your immunity from childhood vaccination wanes in adulthood if not boosted.

The Kershaw family lost 8 children in 17 days:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/923lxm/this_is_a_picture_of_a_gravestone_commemorating/

The Lawson family lost 5 children in 4 days:
https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/22/haunting-photo-shows-vaccinations-good-thing-7250940/

The Rev. Roland Sawyer wrote of the 1735 epidemic in his history of Kensington. "Between June 1 and Dec. 1, 1735, there died over 40 children under 10 years of age. Seven families lost 27 children, everyone dying who was taken sick. The first 8 months of 1736 we lost near 40 more, or near 90 the first 15 months of the plague." By 1738 so many Kensington children succumbed to diphtheria "there were few children left to die." Sawyer notes statistics of other years when "throat distemper" savaged the town — 1745 — 16 children died; 1747 — 48-52 children died; 1760 — 22 children died.

https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/exeter-news-letter/2008/06/27/history-in-focus-diphtheria-epidemic/52363287007/

It's highly contagious and moves fast. Children just died on the way to the hospital. Diphtheria was known as the "Strangling Angel" of childhood.

And the diphtheria toxin is so toxic, you need the anti-toxin to have a good chance of surviving. If there are outbreaks, will it be limited? Will American doctors know how to recognize it? You don't intubate a bad airway with pseudomembrane. This illness was why the medical field finally got on board with cricothyroidotomy, where they just cut a hole in the neck to bypass the airway. Children started surviving it, then.

But a cricothyroidotomy is hard to do with the "bull neck" you get with fulminant diphtheria. You can't find the anatomic landmarks.

[Anonymous]

The morning after election day, I went to the CDC website and pulled down a copy of the recommended vax schedule for all ages and started updating all of mine.

[Anonymous]

Go get your immunity levels checked and get boosters if you can. The idiocy of our current public health system is going to cause a lot of pain…

[Anonymous]

So far all I’ve heard is delaying Hep B so it’s not given at birth, and not giving chicken pox with the MMR together for young kids. What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So far all I’ve heard is delaying Hep B so it’s not given at birth, and not giving chicken pox with the MMR together for young kids. What am I missing?

"Heck yeah, guys, they're not going to repeal Roe v Wade! That's crazy talk, y'all!"

[Anonymous]

Project 2025 specifically criticized the use of vaccines developed using fetal cell lines, regardless of how they were now manufactured.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Measles and pertussis

I know these are the one we are talking about and are most familiar with, but the real bogeyman is diphtheria. It can turn fulminant in a matter of hours. The pesudomembrane at the back of the throat suffocates you. If you survive and get better, there's still myocarditis and the other fairly common sequelae to deal with.

Graveyards have multiple family members that died within days of each other, and not just children. Your immunity from childhood vaccination wanes in adulthood if not boosted.

Jfc

I can now get this if some dumb granola mom from FL now doesn't want to vax her kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So far all I’ve heard is delaying Hep B so it’s not given at birth, and not giving chicken pox with the MMR together for young kids. What am I missing?

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