I Feel for Kids with Food Allergies, but an Anti-Vaxx Message.

[haele]

53. Children (and adults) with auto-immune conditions are already exempt -

And no one is asking them to be vaccinated if they can't be safely vaccinated. And you're only talking about, what - maybe a quarter of one percent of the children at any particular school and around half of one percent of adults under the age of 70 or so?
As for safer alternatives to vaccinations? I honestly can't think of anything natural that would work other than the methods that failed disastrously when I and my parents were children (calculated exposure/quarantine practices and hopefully universal medical care available for the five to ten percent of the time that fails...)- or some sort of anti-viral cocktail from Big Pharma, which sort of defeats the purpose of not being for monetary purposes.

As it is, common vaccines are loss-leaders for pharmaceuticals for the most part. If the government and other community health organizations didn't pay them to provide enough for school children and others, each vaccine would cost in the thousands under the current pharmaceutical mode - and then we'd be right back to where we were in 1966 when my friend in second grade went home with the measles - and they managed to save her infant brother's life by getting him to the hospital quickly enough, but he ended up deaf and had some obvious motor-damage from the brain damage getting the measles at five months old will cause.

Most anti-vaxxers that are not anti-vax for religious or medical reasons seem to ignore the damage these diseases did. I'm just 55 - and when I was a kid, we all knew and played with the kids who survived these diseases with few problems. We still quarentined houses for measles and mumps. As for the other kids who didn't so fare well after getting sick - well, we didn't usually play with them afterwards - they went to special classes, were home-schooled, were institutionalized - or were dead.

I'm sorry for those people who think there is some sort of alternative out there that is "safer", "more efficient", or "more natural" - even if this "government" owned by Big Pharma doesn't want to do the research on it, there are other countries and non-profit organizations with a bias towards real health rather than profits that are doing research into disease control who, so far as I've heard, haven't found anything yet. But, barring sort of underlying immune condition, I have no problems with my grandchild and any future grandchildren being vaccinated.
The risks I experienced as a child with "simple childhood diseases" like scarlet fever, both types of measles, diphtheria, pertussis, mumps due to the few vaccination options were magnitudes greater than any risk vaccination could give them.
I knew too many kids who were permanently damaged by these diseases. I knew of at least four families who lost children to these diseases, not to mention an uncle who never made it out of infancy back in the 1940's due to diphtheria.

Haele