The New Religion
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Certainly, that is the tactic of choice at the prestigious, exclusive Hayground School in Bridgehampton, where an astonishing one-third of typically secular, sophisticated, ultra-liberal parents have, it seems, a “genuine” religious objection to vaccination of their children.
To parents who send their kids to local public schools that doesn’t cut it. A long-established local pediatrician, Gail Schonfeld, now refuses to accept patients the children of parents who won’t permit immunization. She believes in vaccines—in fact, considers them just plain good medical practice—and says if “parents don’t trust me with this, we won’t have a good working relationship.”
Certainly, that is the tactic of choice at the prestigious, exclusive Hayground School in Bridgehampton, where an astonishing one-third of typically secular, sophisticated, ultra-liberal parents have, it seems, a “genuine” religious objection to vaccination of their children.
To parents who send their kids to local public schools that doesn’t cut it. A long-established local pediatrician, Gail Schonfeld, now refuses to accept patients the children of parents who won’t permit immunization. She believes in vaccines—in fact, considers them just plain good medical practice—and says if “parents don’t trust me with this, we won’t have a good working relationship.”
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Jan
I've had my kids vaccinated for MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and tetanus, but I would adamantly refuse to get them vaccinated for HPV. The flu one I've never been a fan of as the only times I've ever done it I immediately got sick so that one is off my list as well. And I really don't agree with the chicken pox one unless you don't get it naturally as a kid.
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How many adults do you know are regularly vaccinated? You do know they're finding out frequently that vaccines that conveyed "lifetime immunity" actually don't convey lifetime immunity and are then suggesting boosters?
That said, how many "vaccinated" people do you know are not up to date, and therefore a gigantic "threat" to the entire universe?
There was a reason there were immunization programs, and all the kids when I was a kid got lined up and stabbed in the arm - that reason being, people were tired of seeing huge child mortality rates from diseases that were found to be preventable. They knew the risks - and yes, although extremely rare, kids got sick or died from the innoculations - but a lot more survuved because their parents weren't weenie sheeple and saw - and knew - people who died from this stuff.
I personally remember - as a young child - meeting a woman who had been in an iron lung since she was 12. What I remember most - was the huge contraption she was confined to, the smell of the machinery, and having to view the world through a mirror above her head. You think it didnt leave an impression?
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