Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 23:14     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
Anonymous wrote:Potomac looks good, I guess you don’t want a parent body that’s too far right or left. WIS is even worse than GDS, which surprises me. I thought being anti-vax was an American thing?!?!?
Do we really need another reason to go to potomac over other schools?
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 23:12     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
Potomac looks good, I guess you don’t want a parent body that’s too far right or left. WIS is even worse than GDS, which surprises me. I thought being anti-vax was an American thing?!?!?
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 22:38     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what year the measles vaccine came out but I do remember seeing kids on TV (Brady Bunch) and in books (The Great Brain) getting measles and mumps on purpose and it being no bigger deal than chicken pox. Google says 99.7-99.9% recovery rate. Parents have the right to consider cost-benefit analysis on this stuff and some come away with an opinion different than yours.


Chicken pox, yes, measles and mumps, no. We have deafness in an elderly family member from catching one of those at 18 months, before vaccines. To clarify, he has been deaf since 18 months old, and had vaccines existed at that time, he would not be deaf. Children also died.

These parents, and this movement, have no memory of the before times, and are making a huge mistake over vaccines, science that saved lives. A massive step back, and history will reflect this


Undoubtedly there are people who suffer negative effects from illnesses. The thing to consider is the risk of these versus the risk of vaccine injury. People have the right to do their own research and make this determination for themselves.


What if no one got vaccinated?


Please take a history class. Read up on the Middle Ages. Talk to your grandparents about polio and scarlet fever. Look up pictures of iron lungs. Find a chart on childhood deceases and historic life expectancies.


Yes, I know that. The question was directed at our anti-vaxx friend who wants to do their “own research.” While free-riding on herd immunity.

And conveniently never answering the question.

And they won’t answer it now. Why is that, do you think?
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 22:32     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Many hysterical little tyrants here. Libs just love to mandate behavior. Psychos. If you're kid is vaccinated and they work so well, why do you care if my kid doesn't get MMR?

Experts have been known to be WRONG (covid vaxx stops the spread!) and LIE (face masks work!) Sorry if I don't want to line my kids up for heart injuries, allergies, asthma, neurological conditions such as GBS et al. I'm not anti-vaxx but I will never blindly believe what the "experts" spout again. Adjustments to the vaccine schedule are hardly unreasonable but you little dictators like to push people around. Sickos.

Because even after 2 doses, the MMR is 97% effective. That means for 3% of kids, they aren't fully protected.
So when your unvaccinated kid gets measles (highly contagious) and comes to a school classroom of 33 kids, 1 of the 32 **vaccinated** kids isn't protected, and now your kid has endangered the vaccinated kid who didn't realize they were in the 3%. Not to mention a kid with an immune issue who is unable to get the vax.

When everyone is vaccinated, the 97% effectiveness is enough for herd immunity and every kid stays safe. As more and more parents choose not to vaccinate their kids, mostly those kids will end up catching measles, which has an 11% hospitalization rate. But 3% of vaccinated kids will also be subject to the complications of measles, which include death.


We got titers done on my kid after the 12 month MMR and found she'd had no reaction: unprotected. That is part of why they do a second shot at ~15 months (to catch those situations) but it's also part of why herd immunity is important even for vaccinated kids.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 22:27     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2025/measles-vaccine-schools-outbreaks-public-health/

Can this be right? Some of the private schools have weirdly low numbers of students…but also weirdly low vaccination rates, which is concerning.


In 1986 there were 6 shots. Starting in 2006, there are 26 shots. That’s insane. I used to think Jenny McCarthy was crazy. She’s not.


This article is only about MMR, not every recommended vax. A kindergartener who has received all recommended MMR shots from birth will have had 3 shots.

However, I don't think it's insane there are more shots than in the 80s. I think it's great that we are vaccinating against more diseases and that we know more about how to break up the vaccines we already had.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 20:24     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2025/measles-vaccine-schools-outbreaks-public-health/

Can this be right? Some of the private schools have weirdly low numbers of students…but also weirdly low vaccination rates, which is concerning.


In 1986 there were 6 shots. Starting in 2006, there are 26 shots. That’s insane. I used to think Jenny McCarthy was crazy. She’s not.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 19:35     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Many hysterical little tyrants here. Libs just love to mandate behavior. Psychos. If you're kid is vaccinated and they work so well, why do you care if my kid doesn't get MMR?

Experts have been known to be WRONG (covid vaxx stops the spread!) and LIE (face masks work!) Sorry if I don't want to line my kids up for heart injuries, allergies, asthma, neurological conditions such as GBS et al. I'm not anti-vaxx but I will never blindly believe what the "experts" spout again. Adjustments to the vaccine schedule are hardly unreasonable but you little dictators like to push people around. Sickos.

Because even after 2 doses, the MMR is 97% effective. That means for 3% of kids, they aren't fully protected.
So when your unvaccinated kid gets measles (highly contagious) and comes to a school classroom of 33 kids, 1 of the 32 **vaccinated** kids isn't protected, and now your kid has endangered the vaccinated kid who didn't realize they were in the 3%. Not to mention a kid with an immune issue who is unable to get the vax.

When everyone is vaccinated, the 97% effectiveness is enough for herd immunity and every kid stays safe. As more and more parents choose not to vaccinate their kids, mostly those kids will end up catching measles, which has an 11% hospitalization rate. But 3% of vaccinated kids will also be subject to the complications of measles, which include death.


^^ this. Thank you for science
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 19:08     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
Anonymous wrote:Many hysterical little tyrants here. Libs just love to mandate behavior. Psychos. If you're kid is vaccinated and they work so well, why do you care if my kid doesn't get MMR?

Experts have been known to be WRONG (covid vaxx stops the spread!) and LIE (face masks work!) Sorry if I don't want to line my kids up for heart injuries, allergies, asthma, neurological conditions such as GBS et al. I'm not anti-vaxx but I will never blindly believe what the "experts" spout again. Adjustments to the vaccine schedule are hardly unreasonable but you little dictators like to push people around. Sickos.


Also some of these schools have daycares associated with them where there are babies too young to be vaccinated
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 18:41     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
Anonymous wrote:Many hysterical little tyrants here. Libs just love to mandate behavior. Psychos. If you're kid is vaccinated and they work so well, why do you care if my kid doesn't get MMR?

Experts have been known to be WRONG (covid vaxx stops the spread!) and LIE (face masks work!) Sorry if I don't want to line my kids up for heart injuries, allergies, asthma, neurological conditions such as GBS et al. I'm not anti-vaxx but I will never blindly believe what the "experts" spout again. Adjustments to the vaccine schedule are hardly unreasonable but you little dictators like to push people around. Sickos.

Because even after 2 doses, the MMR is 97% effective. That means for 3% of kids, they aren't fully protected.
So when your unvaccinated kid gets measles (highly contagious) and comes to a school classroom of 33 kids, 1 of the 32 **vaccinated** kids isn't protected, and now your kid has endangered the vaccinated kid who didn't realize they were in the 3%. Not to mention a kid with an immune issue who is unable to get the vax.

When everyone is vaccinated, the 97% effectiveness is enough for herd immunity and every kid stays safe. As more and more parents choose not to vaccinate their kids, mostly those kids will end up catching measles, which has an 11% hospitalization rate. But 3% of vaccinated kids will also be subject to the complications of measles, which include death.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 17:01     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
Many hysterical little tyrants here. Libs just love to mandate behavior. Psychos. If you're kid is vaccinated and they work so well, why do you care if my kid doesn't get MMR?

Experts have been known to be WRONG (covid vaxx stops the spread!) and LIE (face masks work!) Sorry if I don't want to line my kids up for heart injuries, allergies, asthma, neurological conditions such as GBS et al. I'm not anti-vaxx but I will never blindly believe what the "experts" spout again. Adjustments to the vaccine schedule are hardly unreasonable but you little dictators like to push people around. Sickos.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 16:54     Subject: WaPo article on school vaccination rates
^I meant childhood diseases but deceases works too.