It Might Still Just Be Bronchitis.

[kungfuwaynewho]

Dear parents who have chosen not to vaccinate your children:

Thank you. No, really. Thank you for choosing to believe one single study, that has since been discredited and its author stripped of his medical license, over every other medical professional's opinion. Thank you for watching a segment on the Today Show and basing your decisions on that eight-minute stretch. Thank you for reading Jenny McCarthy's book and thinking, "Yeah, she's onto something."

Thank you for dragging your sick children out into public, as well. That's a vital part of this whole equation.

Thank you for all of that, because I probably have whooping cough. WHOOPING COUGH. A disease that was practically non-existent in this country because enough people were vaccinated against it, keeping those who weren't (me, as a baby, because I had a horrific reaction to the shot) safe through herd immunity. Thank you for destroying the entire concept of herd immunity. Thank you for making idiotic decisions that not only threaten the life of your own children, but also the lives of all the people your children come into contact with.

XOXwlejiafo;eiji;eoa

Sorry.  Just had a coughing fit. At least this time I didn't run out of breath or start wheezing or get dizzy or vomit because of it.

Anyway, XOXO. Yeah.

Comments

[openended.livejournal.com]

I seriously can't deal with people who don't do immunizations because of the "but it causes autism" nonsense.

Thank you for making idiotic decisions that not only threaten the life of your own children, but also the lives of all the people your children come into contact with.

Yes. It's not only putting their own kids at risk (which I guess is their prerogative though really doesn't sound like excellent parenting), but OTHER PEOPLE AT RISK AS WELL. At best, they've massively inconvenienced a relatively healthy individual (and possibly screwed them out of pay, depending on how their employment works). At worst, they've sent someone to the hospital. And at extreme worst, they've indirectly sent someone to their death (I don't know; elderly person comes in contact with whooping cough, goes to the hospital, develops pneumonia, never recovers; something like that).

And I just...everyone gets so uppity when a kid with a runny nose shows up at kindergarten. Runny noses are comparatively cake when put up against WHOOPING COUGH.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Man, I feel so guilty already for having been at work all last week when I first got the cough, and worrying that I might have exposed someone. But it sucks, because it's hard for an adult to have any idea they might have anything more than just allergies or a summer cold (which is exactly what I thought).

Although I did have someone tell me today that people have to vaccinate their kids so they can send their kids to school, so there isn't any problem at all which people not being vaccinated. And I didn't have the information at my fingertips to refute that, and it was very frustrating. It is a problem! A real problem! Grr.