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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: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday April 30 2019, @10:40AM (5 children)
Another analogy: 1963, the year before the Measles vaccine was released, death by measles in the US was running 400 to 500 per year.
Today, death by automobile accident in the US runs just under 40,000 per year.
I still drive to work, do you?
I view the whole discussion somewhat like a demand that all people turn off their porch lights at night "to save energy" whilst ignoring the heating and/or cooling thermostat. If I want to leave my porch light on, for whatever reason, you're going to have to give me a better reason to turn it off than "saving energy."
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(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Tuesday April 30 2019, @03:04PM (4 children)
And the deltas between 1963 and the present are insignificant. Based on the CDC's mortality graphics, Measles deaths in the U.S. declined by (roughly) 95% before the Measles vaccine was introduced.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday April 30 2019, @07:26PM (3 children)
Someone brought up the increased mortality rate of measles today as compared to 1963, and I think that's A) very true, and B) probably attributable to infants not receiving protection from their mothers today, whereas in 1963 maternal Measles antibody titers were far superior to today.
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(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Tuesday April 30 2019, @08:21PM (2 children)
Maternal antibodies are yet more casualties of the vaccination craziness. Mothers who naturally contract Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and a host of other illnesses will pass on antibodies to their newborns through their milk. These antibodies are not passed on in mothers whose only protection against these diseases come from vaccinations. And since infants can not produce antibodies until somewhere around six months old, vaccinations are useless for them.
So the pharmaceutical industry has created a deadly period for infants that hardly existed before. Because if these infants are exposed to these diseases, they will likely die.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday April 30 2019, @08:49PM (1 child)
Sounds like a business opportunity to me: plastic bubbles for your babies!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @02:17AM
Have you checked that claim for veracity?