Anonymous wrote:It’s both extremes not vaccinating. Both the ultra conservative right AND the hippy dippy crunchy granola let’s give birth at home and send our kids to Waldorf or unschool them parents.
Unless a medical doctor gives a valid reason why a child shouldn’t have the measles vaccine it should be mandatory.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Felony murder for every unvaccinated adult (or parent f unvaccinated child) who infects another person.
No, but difference insurance rates. In this case, the weight of the mother knowing everyone she criticized was right, that people will always be whispering about her behind her back if not to her face, that all of the arguments she ever had about this were ones she lost, and everyone knows it.
And most horribly, the weight of the responsibility for her son's damage,e ven if he survives. That her choices led to this.
Anonymous wrote:
The appropriate medical management was to keep him under professional observation. It sounds like the mother went against medical advice to refuse vaccination, and then she went against medical advice to take him home.
Legally, she gets to make both of those decisions. It's her call. It's also her responsibility.
It sounds like she then kept him home for a couple of days before taking him to a different hospital. It's not like he was so sick she felt she couldn't take care of him at home.
You know what's the only decision in all of this which would have a high probability of a good outcome for the child? To have vaccinated him. But that's her choice and her responsibility, as is taking him home and thinking she knows better. She gets to do that. Poor kid, she stills says she thinks this is better than having given him a vaccine. What a piece of work.
Anonymous wrote:It’s both extremes not vaccinating. Both the ultra conservative right AND the hippy dippy crunchy granola let’s give birth at home and send our kids to Waldorf or unschool them parents.
Unless a medical doctor gives a valid reason why a child shouldn’t have the measles vaccine it should be mandatory.
Anonymous wrote:This conversation reminds me of the conversations here on DCUM during early COVID. One poster was obsessed with the recovery rate of people on vents, and tried to say the ventilators were causing the deaths.
Measles is a virus. Once it invades the brain, all the supportive care in the world won’t keep every kid alive. A significant percentage will die, and an even greater percentage will have permanent brain damage. This is why we vaccinate our children. Once the decision is made not to vaccinate, this is one of the risks parents are taking.
Anonymous wrote:Felony murder for every unvaccinated adult (or parent f unvaccinated child) who infects another person.
1000xAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I think there is this general expectation that if you refuse to vaccinate, and your child gets sick, then the professionals can just fix it.
But they can't always -- once your child gets measles, or diphtheria, or pertussis, everyone is already behind the eight ball with you. They are guessing and running and struggling, and doing the things they hope will work, but no guarantees.
That is why there are vaccinations for these illnesses. No intervention is as safe or effective as the vaccine that prevents your child from getting as sick as without it.
This! So odd to rely on doctors, when you didn’t beforehand.