Shooting up before school
Write From Karen’s tells of taking her sons to the doctor for shots before they could get back into school. She hated to do it when they were babies. The pain of betrayal.
But opponents of routine vaccinations have a point. They claim that some vaccines (for diseases I had as a child) are less effective than getting the disease itself. That is, the immunity goes away faster. Others note that several common vaccines were developed using tissue for babies aborted for their tissue.
You might well ask why it’s better to have germs injected into your body than to risk the fairly slight chance of getting them another way. Our childbirth instructor suggested there might be a reason why most SIDS deaths happen shortly after a DPT vaccination. I have trouble forgetting the child of a colleague whose brain swelled after his DPT shot. No, he was not the same after that.
I haven’t made my mind up about all this. But I want to think about it.
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