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The New Religion

Posted by khalling 10 years, 5 months ago to Culture
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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.”


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  • Posted by Mamaemma 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But it often is, and certainly the tendency to the disease is. Do you agree that keeping diabetics alive potentially weakens the race?
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are right. I have not been able to discern that I have been hurt, but you are correct. I am assuming.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not at all. Insulin is a substance that the body produces to process sugar. While the disease diabetes can be passed genetically, it does not have to be.
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Insulin allows people to survive and procreate and pass their genetic defect to their offspring. Robbie was talking about making the species weaker. Make the connection.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That, I don't know about for certain. But: what say you about a law saying those who suffer from Vaccine Adverse Events no longer have legal standing?
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No it was this one. When I saw it, it was at -1. I up-voted you back to zero and someone else has voted you back up to 1 since then.
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  • Posted by DennisKebrdle 10 years, 4 months ago
    I almost died from measles 60 years ago, my kids got the shots and nver had that mess. get the shots!
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well said. Don't know who downvoted you twice and then was unwilling to even post their objection.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Amen. I don't do the flu virus since the one and only time I ever did, I immediately got so sick I missed three days of work. Thanks, but I'll take my chances and wash my hands. Often.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 4 months ago
    I think it should be noted, however, that it is just as fallacious to include ALL vaccines as it is to denounce ALL objectors.

    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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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 4 months ago
    I've done no research. Just looking at the surface arguments to date, non vaccination seems pretty dumb to me. Life being a gamble, shows me that the best bet is the one with and edge, which the folks who vaccinate have without a doubt.

    If you doubt this gambling method, you should know that I never lose at the racetrack. This will not make you rich but it has a certain satisfaction. It's simple; just bet the favorite to show. You're welcome.
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  • Posted by wiggys 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    was the discovery of the vaccine paid for by the government or by private industry? If by private industry that would certainly be best. If this type of interference by the government were all it did it wouldn't be bad, however taking all they do into account Rand is correct.
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  • Posted by barwick11 10 years, 5 months ago
    Question for everyone who supports mandated vaccinations... (or really anyone who thinks they're the greatest thing since sliced bread)

    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?
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 10 years, 5 months ago
    Those that have a supposed "religious objection" to their children being vaccinated should then be overjoyed when their children gets "called home by God" for such preventable diseases as Measles, Polio, Diptheria and Whooping Cough. Sure is fun watching children - suffocate, drown in their own mucus, or fever to death Um Hmmm... Say Amen, Mom!

    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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