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posted by martyb on Tuesday April 30 2019, @07:57AM   Printer-friendly
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.

https://healthimpactnews.com/2019/pro-vaccine-nurse-of-22-years-defends-her-family-after-mumps-outbreak-among-her-fully-vaccinated-family-as-she-was-wrongly-accused-of-not-vaccinating/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @04:07PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @04:07PM (#836738)

    personal protection is not why the 2a exists, though. that's just been touted as a good reason by some people. it's largely irrelevant to our rights. the 2a was written to explain that free people have the right to overthrow tyrannical governments and in order to do that they would need weapons "of current military and police use". you can read the federalist papers to see the founders' letters explaining yourself, IIRC.

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:48PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:48PM (#836808)

    Yes, the broadest interpretation of 2a says that those with the means should be allowed to control and bring to bear nuclear warheads, because how else would we overthrow a government that controls Cheyenne Mountain?

    Meanwhile, there's the practical usage of the 2nd Amendment since the civil war, which basically means that gun collectors can collect guns... and there have already been limits put on that restricting private ownership of full auto, etc. far short of the kind of weapons needed to overthrow a corrupt and overly intrusive government.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:42PM (#837426)

      yes, and those laws are seditious and unconstitutional and the people that passed them should be hung on tv. what's your point?