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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Its not about being anti or pro vaccine - its doing what is best for you child.[/b]  There have been incidents of severe complications or even death and its clearly hard for those who have not dealt with it to understand.  When you spend days in a hospital with your child due to a reaction, you will understand but by then it may be too late.  No one here is saying they do not vaccinate, but they are spreading them out which can be safer for some kids.  Use some common sense.  The safety risk is far greater if we did them all at once or exposed our chid to the shingles woman who had no common sense to get herself vaccinated and is far more worried about what others do than the choices she makes.[/quote]

Look, I have no problem with people who choose not to vaccinate or to delay vaccination.  I agree they are responsible for what's best for their children.  And I think that what is best for the school population (you know, everyone else's children) is that any unvaccinated or delayed vaccination child should not be enrolled in a public school.  If they are on a delayed schedule red-shirt them and they start school the next school year when they are caught up.  Those who opt to decline vaccination for religious reasons should either be homeschooled or be enrolled in parochial schools that support the religious exemption.  But I don't believe that any unvaccinated children should be admitted into a public school.  There are many children in public schools that have health issues or who have family members (including infant siblings) with health issues that a carrier child could infect that make unvaccinated children a significant public health issue.  [/quote]

[b]Your post exemplifies the self-centeredness and ignorance of the vaxxers[/b] who think the CDC schedule should be inviolate.  First, some kids have health issues that either require spacing and/or delay of vaccines.  Second, some of the vaccines are for illnesses that most Americans have a very remote chance of actually catching.  Finally, you obviously don't know much about viral carriage, because even someone who is vaccinated can be a carrier.   No vaccine is 100% effective.  And, some reduce carriage rates. Others do not.  There are different serotypes of viruses -- and they can mutate -- so even if you were immunized against one serotype, you may get another and still get sick.

Most of the vaccines on the CDC's list were not given prior to 1980.  School-age kids were given MMR, Polio, and Diptheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus.  That was it.  And somehow the population of advanced industrial countries managed to stay pretty healthy.  Rotovirus, which was first introduced in 1998, was taken off the market twice because of safety issues.  Vaccines are developed and promoted by pharmaceutical companies.  They are hugely profitable.  They are not always safe, and certainly not safe for every member of the population.  In general, we have valued herd immunity over individual health.  While that's great for the herd, that's not great for the minority of kids who have strong reactions to vaccinations.  And, despite the medical establishment's orthodoxy that vaccine reactions are rare, they're not.     
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Oh the irony, that a anti-vaxxer should call a vaxxer self-centered.  The entire concept of the individual's health needs taking precedence over the herd immunity and the protection of the general population is the very epitome of self-centeredness.  You are saying that the needs of the individual child with a health issue preempt the needs of the general community.  I agree that the individual's health needs are extremely important and that the parents need to do what is best for their child's health.  I do not believe, however, that that child with a health condition that requires delayed vaccination or a family with a religious exemption has a greater right to public education than the general community has a right to a healthy school environment.  Take the child with the health issue out of the public school.  Find alternative education for that child until the child meets the general health standard that has seen the near eradication of a host of communicable diseases that used to plague the US.

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