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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because she's a liar[/quote]

And a moron. [/quote]

How is someone a moron for slowing down immunizations after two sets of very strong reactions that the child had to be hospitalized.  You are a moron for not getting every child is different and parents need to adjust their parenting to that particular child.  [b]There is nothing WRONG with not doing vaccines.[/b]  We do most of them, but I don't care if other parents do not do them.  It is the herd effect.  And, for those who do not do it, kids have the option of doing it when they are adults or need them.  There are some kids who have had very negative reactions from developmental delays to serious medical complications.  Reality is most people will be ok being vaccinated but not everyone is.  We always had the belief that everyone should do it till we saw first hand the the impact on our child.  Now I saw do what is best for your child. [/quote]

Yes, there is something wrong with not doing vaccines -- or rather, there is something wrong with not doing vaccines, in the absence of a documented medical problem. Otherwise, if you're not doing it because it's "too many too soon", or "the vaccines have never been tested for safety", or "there's formaldehyde and monkey guts in vaccines!", or "vaccines don't work anyway", or "it's better for a child to develop natural immunity", or "I prefer to strengthen the child's natural immunie system", or "AUTISM!", or "I'm not worried about measles, because nobody gets measles these days anyway", or "it's all a conspiracy by Big Pharma", or (fill in the blank), then there is definitely, absolutely, certainly something wrong -- morally, ethically, and scientifically -- with not doing vaccines.[/quote]

THIS.

Respectfully, if your concerns fall under any of the above rubrics, I understand that you have concerns and feel that you have done "research" and "think independently on the issue." But virtually all the concerns trotted out just don't have very good basis in fact. Check the research again. Then ask yourself if the risk of exposure to these diseases, or causing exposure to others, is really the strategy you want to embrace. The anti-vax crowd nostalgically underestimates the health risks of the diseases targeted by vaccines. Vaccines are not without problems, but they are so much better than maladies they prevent, for all but a very few people. (And the health of those few people is placed in exponentially greater jeopardy by every child on a delayed schedule without a medically-sound reason.)[/quote]

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