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LeftyMom

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31. That seems highly unlikely.

Reply to rjsquirrel (Reply #29)

Sun Apr 24, 2016, 12:50 PM

Apr 2016

Look, I agree that the mom is a twit and the kid really should get her shots for her own sake and everybody else's. But there have been ten cases of polio this year, last year there were 74. And the only reason that region still has it is because it's a wartorn, impoverished, impassably mountainous and religiously backward place. The chances that somebody is going to have the resources to get out of there, actually do so, not get their vaccinations at some point on the way, get into Germany and then get permission to travel to the US without proof of vaccination against said highly communicable disease?

I understand why that poster is worried about her grandchild. I would be too. But that's definitely the disease I'd worry least about, at this time. It's teetering on the edge of extinction.

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5 REASONS TO NOT VACCINATE YOUR KIDS [View all] HuckleB Apr 2016 OP

I had some woman browbeat me for vaccinating my kids gollygee Apr 2016 #1

Yikes! HuckleB Apr 2016 #3

Frightening....very frightening... bvar22 Apr 2016 #2

Iron lungs, and a couple of crippled kids in every school. But not the ones in wheelchairs... Hekate Apr 2016 #9

Polio vaccine was given in a sugar cube to us in the 60s. cwydro Apr 2016 #15

I too remember seeing those Iron Lungs on TV and the people walking on Jim Beard Apr 2016 #19

Germany has got it down MisterP Apr 2016 #4

The very first thing that popped into my head was that you really didn't like them. Clicked and OregonBlue Apr 2016 #5

I'm not going to say Aerows Apr 2016 #12

Did you click on the link? First thing in the article is you don't like them that much anyway. OregonBlue Apr 2016 #14

Somehow I missed your reply the first time. HuckleB Apr 2016 #18

That one is a big old Aerows Apr 2016 #22

I'm pretty sure they were agreeing with you that "you don't like them" is a reason... Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2016 #30

Ka-ching. jomin41 Apr 2016 #6

? HuckleB Apr 2016 #13

Does he think you're a paid shill for Big Pharma? Rob H. Apr 2016 #32

All too often, unfortunately. HuckleB Apr 2016 #35

Thanks ! eom reACTIONary Apr 2016 #7

Gawd forbid that... SoapBox Apr 2016 #8

There are stacks of stupid people. Aerows Apr 2016 #10

+1,000 ... 000 HuckleB Apr 2016 #11

Dang it! I had to get the small pox shot now that I am an old codger Jim Beard Apr 2016 #20

Everyone over 65 needs to get the shingles Vax. That usually goes hand in hand with the pneumococcal AgadorSparticus Apr 2016 #24

I'm pro-vac but also pro-choice bigwillq Apr 2016 #16

And they should keep their kids out of the public, then. HuckleB Apr 2016 #17

And let all the very young children be exposed because of someones supposed right. Jim Beard Apr 2016 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author rjsquirrel Apr 2016 #28

Public health is not a choice really nadinbrzezinski Apr 2016 #33

My daughter has bought into the anti vaxxer crap Blaukraut Apr 2016 #23

Polio's probably a year or so away from being eradicated entirely LeftyMom Apr 2016 #26

This message was self-deleted by its author rjsquirrel Apr 2016 #29

That seems highly unlikely. LeftyMom Apr 2016 #31

I will add one more reason nadinbrzezinski Apr 2016 #34

1. You're nuts 6000eliot Apr 2016 #25

It should be illegal to not vaccinate unless a child has a proven allergy or ... Kalidurga Apr 2016 #27