What a difference in vaccination rates between states.

The following are the top states who have their children safely immunized..

Massachusetts (92.0%)
Connecticut (89.7%)
Rhode Island (84.1)
New Hampshire (82.8%)
North Dakota (80.6%)
Washington State
Vermont
Maine
Wisconsin
Iowa


The 10 states with the least amount of children immunized against disease .

Montana (62.4%)
Nebraska (62.8%)
Alaska (64.1%)
California (65.5%)
Georgia (66.1%)
Florida
Arizona
Nevada
Alabama
Mississippi


These numbers go up and down but for the most part the Northeast has the highest compliance rate with Massachusetts always leading the pack.

And we can typically count on the Deep South to make the wrong choices. California needs to get their sh@t together, their numbers are way too low for such a large state. Montana and Alaska have more moose than people so maybe they feel safe not living close to other people.

The nephew won’t affect your kids. It’s more so him being unprotected from encountering or his body being able to fight off disease diseases that they may carry, but have been vaccinated from.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t vaccinate my girls for most of the required vaccinations (not including flu or covid, which we don’t vaccinate for either) only a few that we think were/are more necessary.

They’re 5 & 8, perfectly healthy kids.

Until they get measles

We vaccinate selectively and do include MMR and DTaP.

Where’d you get your medical degree?

My husband and I are highly educated professionals.. Let parents make their own choices

Highly educated professional whats?

Husband is a personal injury attorney, and I work in investing banking.

You’re not necessarily highly educated. Your husband was trained in a particular field and you learned about investing money. What makes you think your backgrounds allow you to make better decisions than your doctors?

We don’t need medical background to make decisions on whether or not both we or are kids are vaccinated.

You don’t but don’t claim how highly educated you are when in fact your education is irrelevant. It’d be more useful to write about what journals and articles you’ve read and what information made you choose to take a risk. Nobody seems to do that.

We aren’t ignorant people who don’t believe in vaccines. We just prioritize vaccines that we think are important to us. I’m now thinking about whether or not to get them the HPV vaccine, and we already planned on them receiving the Meng Vaccine.

So you didn’t want to protect them against meningitis as babies but you will do so as teens?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t vaccinate my girls for most of the required vaccinations (not including flu or covid, which we don’t vaccinate for either) only a few that we think were/are more necessary.

They’re 5 & 8, perfectly healthy kids.

Until they get measles

We vaccinate selectively and do include MMR and DTaP.

Where’d you get your medical degree?

My husband and I are highly educated professionals.. Let parents make their own choices

Highly educated professional whats?

Husband is a personal injury attorney, and I work in investing banking.

You’re not necessarily highly educated. Your husband was trained in a particular field and you learned about investing money. What makes you think your backgrounds allow you to make better decisions than your doctors?

We don’t need medical background to make decisions on whether or not both we or are kids are vaccinated.

You don’t but don’t claim how highly educated you are when in fact your education is irrelevant. It’d be more useful to write about what journals and articles you’ve read and what information made you choose to take a risk. Nobody seems to do that.

We aren’t ignorant people who don’t believe in vaccines. We just prioritize vaccines that we think are important to us. I’m now thinking about whether or not to get them the HPV vaccine, and we already planned on them receiving the Meng Vaccine.

Why would you get them the HPV? They won’t need it, will they?

Why get them meningitis? Why is that one ok?

We just try to limit processed, unnatural, & inorganic things going into our children’s bodies, the best we can. That doesn’t mean we avoid every vaccine, (we do for ourselves, but not for our kids).

As someone with a chemistry degree stuff like this just gives me a massive headache.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t vaccinate my girls for most of the required vaccinations (not including flu or covid, which we don’t vaccinate for either) only a few that we think were/are more necessary.

They’re 5 & 8, perfectly healthy kids.

Until they get measles

We vaccinate selectively and do include MMR and DTaP.

Where’d you get your medical degree?

My husband and I are highly educated professionals.. Let parents make their own choices

Highly educated professional whats?

Husband is a personal injury attorney, and I work in investing banking.

You’re not necessarily highly educated. Your husband was trained in a particular field and you learned about investing money. What makes you think your backgrounds allow you to make better decisions than your doctors?

We don’t need medical background to make decisions on whether or not both we or are kids are vaccinated.

You don’t but don’t claim how highly educated you are when in fact your education is irrelevant. It’d be more useful to write about what journals and articles you’ve read and what information made you choose to take a risk. Nobody seems to do that.

We aren’t ignorant people who don’t believe in vaccines. We just prioritize vaccines that we think are important to us. I’m now thinking about whether or not to get them the HPV vaccine, and we already planned on them receiving the Meng Vaccine.

Why would you get them the HPV? They won’t need it, will they?

Why get them meningitis? Why is that one ok?

We just try to limit processed, unnatural, & inorganic things going into our children’s bodies, the best we can. That doesn’t mean we avoid every vaccine, (we do for ourselves, but not for our kids).

Great. Then why get meng or hpv?

Because we want to protect our kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t vaccinate my girls for most of the required vaccinations (not including flu or covid, which we don’t vaccinate for either) only a few that we think were/are more necessary.

They’re 5 & 8, perfectly healthy kids.

Until they get measles

We vaccinate selectively and do include MMR and DTaP.

Where’d you get your medical degree?

My husband and I are highly educated professionals.. Let parents make their own choices

Highly educated professional whats?

Husband is a personal injury attorney, and I work in investing banking.

You’re not necessarily highly educated. Your husband was trained in a particular field and you learned about investing money. What makes you think your backgrounds allow you to make better decisions than your doctors?

We don’t need medical background to make decisions on whether or not both we or are kids are vaccinated.

You don’t but don’t claim how highly educated you are when in fact your education is irrelevant. It’d be more useful to write about what journals and articles you’ve read and what information made you choose to take a risk. Nobody seems to do that.

We aren’t ignorant people who don’t believe in vaccines. We just prioritize vaccines that we think are important to us. I’m now thinking about whether or not to get them the HPV vaccine, and we already planned on them receiving the Meng Vaccine.

Why would you get them the HPV? They won’t need it, will they?

Why get them meningitis? Why is that one ok?

We just try to limit processed, unnatural, & inorganic things going into our children’s bodies, the best we can. That doesn’t mean we avoid every vaccine, (we do for ourselves, but not for our kids).

Great. Then why get meng or hpv?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t vaccinate my girls for most of the required vaccinations (not including flu or covid, which we don’t vaccinate for either) only a few that we think were/are more necessary.

They’re 5 & 8, perfectly healthy kids.

Until they get measles

We vaccinate selectively and do include MMR and DTaP.

Where’d you get your medical degree?

My husband and I are highly educated professionals.. Let parents make their own choices

Highly educated professional whats?

Husband is a personal injury attorney, and I work in investing banking.

You’re not necessarily highly educated. Your husband was trained in a particular field and you learned about investing money. What makes you think your backgrounds allow you to make better decisions than your doctors?

We don’t need medical background to make decisions on whether or not both we or are kids are vaccinated.

You don’t but don’t claim how highly educated you are when in fact your education is irrelevant. It’d be more useful to write about what journals and articles you’ve read and what information made you choose to take a risk. Nobody seems to do that.

We aren’t ignorant people who don’t believe in vaccines. We just prioritize vaccines that we think are important to us. I’m now thinking about whether or not to get them the HPV vaccine, and we already planned on them receiving the Meng Vaccine.

Why would you get them the HPV? They won’t need it, will they?

Why get them meningitis? Why is that one ok?

We just try to limit processed, unnatural, & inorganic things going into our children’s bodies, the best we can. That doesn’t mean we avoid every vaccine, (we do for ourselves, but not for our kids).

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t vaccinate my girls for most of the required vaccinations (not including flu or covid, which we don’t vaccinate for either) only a few that we think were/are more necessary.

They’re 5 & 8, perfectly healthy kids.

Until they get measles

We vaccinate selectively and do include MMR and DTaP.

Where’d you get your medical degree?

My husband and I are highly educated professionals.. Let parents make their own choices

Highly educated professional whats?

Husband is a personal injury attorney, and I work in investing banking.

You’re not necessarily highly educated. Your husband was trained in a particular field and you learned about investing money. What makes you think your backgrounds allow you to make better decisions than your doctors?

We don’t need medical background to make decisions on whether or not both we or are kids are vaccinated.

You don’t but don’t claim how highly educated you are when in fact your education is irrelevant. It’d be more useful to write about what journals and articles you’ve read and what information made you choose to take a risk. Nobody seems to do that.

We aren’t ignorant people who don’t believe in vaccines. We just prioritize vaccines that we think are important to us. I’m now thinking about whether or not to get them the HPV vaccine, and we already planned on them receiving the Meng Vaccine.

Why would you get them the HPV? They won’t need it, will they?

Why get them meningitis? Why is that one ok?

We live in the South due to a job relocation and are around anti-vaxxers more often than we were when we lived in DC. One of the dental hygienists at my kids’ pediatric dental practice is an anti-vaxxer. I know this because she was telling her co-worker how annoying it was that her child who was showing ADHD symptoms needed to be fully vaccinated in order to get a neuropsych because most providers turn away unvaccinated patients. How can you work in healthcare and be anti-vax???

My kids are fully vaccinated and I allow them to hang out with whomever they want. If they choose to continue living in the South as adults then they will need to get used to being around people with different and misinformed opinions. If my kids were immunocompromised or weren’t fully vaccinated I wouldn’t allow them to be around unvaccinated children.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t vaccinate my girls for most of the required vaccinations (not including flu or covid, which we don’t vaccinate for either) only a few that we think were/are more necessary.

They’re 5 & 8, perfectly healthy kids.

Until they aren’t. The only reason your kids would have made it to adulthood a decade ago without contracting a preventable illness is because of herd immunity. Herd immunity is a thing of the past. This is really reckless and I think parents who don’t vaccinate should be charged with neglect unless physicians can attest to the fact the vaccine presents a real risk for a particular child. Vaccines don’t cause autism if that’s what worries you. That has been dispelled over and over. Please vaccinate your kids. You have no idea of the suffering you may be bringing upon them and others because you grew up in a world where these illnesses were rare.

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Anonymous wrote:We do vaccinate against polio too.

Which vaccines are you avoiding?

MMR, DTaP, Polio, & PCV are vaccines we do prioritize.
We avoid Hep A, Hep B, Varicella, Influenza, Covid, & Hib.

Will you get them HPV when they are older?

No.

That's a shame. A good friend of mine died in her early 30s of cervical cancer brought on by HPV (the vaccine didn't come out until I was in my mid 20s). If she'd had access to the vaccine she'd still be alive. Even if your kids choose to get it after they turn 18, the majority of girls are sexually active before turning 18, so it would likely be too late to help her.

Sorry for your loss.

Our kids won’t be dating until college, and even then only will be dating to marry, so I don’t think they’ll need the HPV vaccine but if when they’re 18, they choose to get vaccinated, we’ll support their decision.

Are you assuming they will have only one partner and that partner will have only one as well?

Yes.. That’s how we’re raising them.

What if your children are brutally gang-raped? Then multiple people will have penetrated their bodies with their potential diseases, and you’ll have done nothing to protect them from these diseases. Shame on you. Bad parenting.

We’re hoping nothing that awful ever happens to our girls.
I don’t like the pessimistic mindset many people here have. That isn’t the way we think.

I think people would like to see a little humility on your part, and the acknowledgment that you don’t control everything. You may raise your children to receive only one dick in their vaginas, but life ain’t all lollipops and cupcakes. You can’t protect them from being raped; but you can protect them from cervical cancer, so why wouldn’t you?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t vaccinate my girls for most of the required vaccinations (not including flu or covid, which we don’t vaccinate for either) only a few that we think were/are more necessary.

They’re 5 & 8, perfectly healthy kids.

Until they get measles

We vaccinate selectively and do include MMR and DTaP.

Where’d you get your medical degree?

My husband and I are highly educated professionals.. Let parents make their own choices

Highly educated professional whats?

Husband is a personal injury attorney, and I work in investing banking.

You’re not necessarily highly educated. Your husband was trained in a particular field and you learned about investing money. What makes you think your backgrounds allow you to make better decisions than your doctors?

We don’t need medical background to make decisions on whether or not both we or are kids are vaccinated.

You don’t but don’t claim how highly educated you are when in fact your education is irrelevant. It’d be more useful to write about what journals and articles you’ve read and what information made you choose to take a risk. Nobody seems to do that.

We aren’t ignorant people who don’t believe in vaccines. We just prioritize vaccines that we think are important to us. I’m now thinking about whether or not to get them the HPV vaccine, and we already planned on them receiving the Meng Vaccine.

Anonymous wrote:Science, and the vaccines that came from science, have made such immense changes in the lives of all Americans, and for some think it's nonsense or not necessary, is incomprehensible to me.

The lack of intelligence continues to amaze. I must not be a good human being, because I wish every one of their unvaccinated children contract measels or polio or worse, and have life-ling consequences because of it. They'd all deserve it, because they had the opportunity to spare their children, and chose not to based on reasons in their own imagination, not based on science/reality

Agree, that makes you unkind. To wish suffering on innocent children who did nothing to deserve illness or such ignorant parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t vaccinate my girls for most of the required vaccinations (not including flu or covid, which we don’t vaccinate for either) only a few that we think were/are more necessary.

They’re 5 & 8, perfectly healthy kids.

Until they get measles

We vaccinate selectively and do include MMR and DTaP.

Where’d you get your medical degree?

My husband and I are highly educated professionals.. Let parents make their own choices

Highly educated professional whats?

Husband is a personal injury attorney, and I work in investing banking.

You’re not necessarily highly educated. Your husband was trained in a particular field and you learned about investing money. What makes you think your backgrounds allow you to make better decisions than your doctors?

We don’t need medical background to make decisions on whether or not both we or are kids are vaccinated.

You don’t but don’t claim how highly educated you are when in fact your education is irrelevant. It’d be more useful to write about what journals and articles you’ve read and what information made you choose to take a risk. Nobody seems to do that.

Yes, let's put it this way, if your personal injury attorney husband was arrested and accused of a serious crime, he'd hire a criminal defense attorney. Even with the same degree, you'd be an idiot not to consult someone with experience in the exact relevant field.

A law degree has literally no relevant to medicine and vaccines. Your education has absolutely no bearing on it.

But someone like, say, my friend from high school the pediatrician? He has the relevant expertise and education. And he requires patients in his practice be vaccinated and his own daughters are vaccinated.

Science, and the vaccines that came from science, have made such immense changes in the lives of all Americans, and for some think it's nonsense or not necessary, is incomprehensible to me.

The lack of intelligence continues to amaze. I must not be a good human being, because I wish every one of their unvaccinated children contract measels or polio or worse, and have life-ling consequences because of it. They'd all deserve it, because they had the opportunity to spare their children, and chose not to based on reasons in their own imagination, not based on science/reality