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from the have-you-ever-seen-a-single-mump? dept.
Kami Altenberg Schaal has been a professional nurse for 22 years. She is pro-vaccine. She gets the flu shot every year as a requirement for her employment, and she vaccinates her family.
[...] Her entire family has been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, and yet 4 out of 5 members of her family came down with the mumps. Her daughter is a freshman in college, and got the mumps from school.
[...] She isolated her daughter for 5 days ("I know how to isolate a patient, I'm a nurse"), and reported her case to the department of health.
All the members of her family also got booster shots of the MMR vaccine.
17 days after her daughter's exposure, her husband and son woke up with mumps.
After notifying the health department, Kami notified her son's school district as well.
What happened next was apparently something she had not anticipated. Even though her family was fully vaccinated and she followed all the proper medical protocols for dealing with the mumps, many people in her community began to blame her, including some of her medical colleagues, for not vaccinating their children (even though she had!)
[...] Finally, Kami herself woke up with the mumps. She had been tested and was supposedly immune. She had taken the booster. But she ended up getting the mumps anyway.
[...] The department of health nurse was required to send out another letter to the school district, so Kami asked the nurse if she could "put the truth" in the letter to the school district that her son was vaccinated, because she feared being blamed in error, once again, for not vaccinating her children.
The nurse allegedly replied "no."
They will not put that in a letter, because it could give the anti-vaxx movement some fodder.
So they would not protect my family by saying we did the right things, so I had to protect my family. I'm the one who has to defend my family.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 13 2019, @04:13AM
Well, of course, it is. The world's population has increased greatly since the 1960s.
Sounds like you'd be well served to be more sure about my argument then!
It's simple. We live in a world with billions of people who don't receive near universal vaccines. As a result, measles is endemic among that population. There is also considerable interaction between the populations that are near so immunized, such as most of the developed world, and the populations that aren't. Hence, measles crosses over all the time. Even with that crossover, it's still about three orders of magnitude less prevalence in immunized populations than in nonimmunized populations.
Sure, it could be that much. But then where are the measles cases then among that supposedly non-immunized population? Reality isn't jibing with the narrative.
I hope you watch as well.