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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now dozens of cases in North Carolina [/quote]

MAGA stupidity is incredibly expensive. Don’t want to vaccinate, fine. But then don’t go to the medical establishment when it goes wrong. Take castor oil and pray. [/quote]

I had measles as a child, I was hospitalized.  I vaccinated my kids, but I spaced some vaccines out for health reasons.  There is a lot going on in these debates and each side is focusing more on insulting the other side with condescending rhetoric.  As someone who vaccinated my kids I have to acknowledge that there is a certain degree of negligence on part of pediatric profession when it comes to administrations of this rather busy vaccination schedule (we have the most mandated shots of any other developed country).  Pediatric practices do tend to approach this with the same degree of care as vaccinating cattle on a farm.  One size fits all.  An uncaring bored nurse will just serve you a tray of multiple syringes to jab your kid even if they may be slightly under the weather.  They love to also throw in a flu shot on top of the scheduled vaccines, which IMHO is a terrible practice.

If you baby is underweight or is struggling developmentally they will still push the schedule and not offer you the option to wait and space out some shots until you ask.  This is my observation having been in reputable highly rated pediatric offices in NYC..  I am not at all surprised that this one-size-fits-all approach had hurt some children, and that the holiness of the entire topic of vaccination had prevented many parents from asking the right questions.

Nothing is holy in medicine and science.  Things have to be periodically revised and assessed for risk/benefit.  It's unfortunate we have to do this through trial and error and some kids are suffering in the process.  Partial blame is with those who had refused to re-evaluate and re-assess our vaccination schedules, do proper studies to record negative side effects, compare to other countries, etc. [/quote]

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