[News] MMR, Vaccinate or not.

[Leekbrookgull]

You can go private and have one at a time or MMR,our had it and no issues. Too those that don't approve don't you have a moral position to safe guard the welfare of the general public and how would you react if your unvaccinated child picked up Measles ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-48039524

 

[Papa Lazarou]

In My Opinion people who refuse to vaccinate their kids are idiots.

 

[zeetha]

If I had kids they would be vaccinated as soon as possible.

People forget that theres a reason why we have vaccinations - measles, mumps and rubella are not 'simple childhood illnesses'. They can cause long term physical damage (deafness, growth problems, lung problems etc) and can even kill.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

MMR is now inextricably linked with inducing autism. Proven to be false, probably, but there's patently huge numbers of parents out there not willing to take the risk.

 

[The Optimist]

In My Opinion people who refuse to vaccinate their kids are idiots.

I saw a post on Facebook the other that I thought was quite funny, it was something like:

In school “why do I have to go to science lessons, they’re boring and I don’t need to know it anyway”
As an adult “vaccines are dangerous. Climate change isn’t real”

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

If I had kids they would be vaccinated as soon as possible.

People forget that theres a reason why we have vaccinations - measles, mumps and rubella are not 'simple childhood illnesses'. They can cause long term physical damage (deafness, growth problems, lung problems etc) and can even kill.

My youngest son (now 17) had a very bad reaction to his first jabs. On doctors advice he didn't have anymore, but personally I do believe all kids should have it.

 

[The Optimist]

MMR is now inextricably linked with inducing autism. Proven to be false, probably, but there's patently huge numbers of parents out there not willing to take the risk.

Which highlights the lack of knowledge and understanding of medicine. Vaccines do not cause autism, they do prevent horrible illnesses.

 

[WilburySeagull]

MMR is now inextricably linked with inducing autism. Proven to be false, probably, but there's patently huge numbers of parents out there not willing to take the risk.

The alleged risk has comprehensively trashed by huge numbers of specialists in the field and needs to be challenged at every opportunity. Its the very definition of fake news. The large increases in measals cases is a very worrying fact. Many people do not realise just how dangerous it can be.

 

[The Optimist]

My youngest son (now 17) had a very bad reaction to his first jabs. On doctors advice he didn't have anymore, but personally I do believe all kids should have it.

It’s people like your son who can’t have vaccines who need everyone who can have them to have them.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

MMR is now inextricably linked with inducing autism. Proven to be false, probably, but there's patently huge numbers of parents out there not willing to take the risk.

There is no probably about it. It is false. Unfortunately, social media has played a part in spreading false fears.

For every one child who isn't vaccinated, they can infect 15 others. I survived measles when I was 6 but many children weren't so lucky. Vaccinations wiped out smallpox, and measles should not be a worry nowadays.
Many Mums think it is a childhood disease, but it can cause blindness, deafness, meningitis and encephalitis, and death.
Please please please vaccinate your children.

 

[Badger]

In My Opinion people who refuse to vaccinate their kids are idiots.

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It’s people like your son who can’t have vaccines who need everyone who can have them to have them.

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The alleged risk has comprehensively trashed by huge numbers of specialists in the field and needs to be challenged at every opportunity. Its the very definition of fake news. The large increases in measals cases is a very worrying fact. Many people do not realise just how dangerous it can be.

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MMR is now inextricably linked with inducing autism. Proven to be false, probably, but there's patently huge numbers of parents out there not willing to take the risk.

You're an idiot.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

It’s people like your son who can’t have vaccines who need everyone who can have them to have them.

Indeed. The doctor reckoned because he had the first one he had most of the vaccine even if he did then have to spend two weeks in hospital as a result.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

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You're an idiot.

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[vegster]

In My Opinion people who refuse to vaccinate their kids are idiots.

We come from a time when vaccination was the norm as the diseases around then could be killers. In our day I think everyone was queuing up for ANY vaccination rather than face Polio, Measles, Scarlet Fever etc, they never truly all went away but thanks to vaccines they were marginalised to a huge degree.

Nowdays, an adverse reaction to a vaccine gets proportionately more coverage and scares people off and gets them questioning the reasons why we vaccinate in a negative way.



EDIT : Yes, of course I was vaccinated and so was my daughter.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I and the then Mrs W decided to go private and get the kids single jabs but it was at the height of the scare. The problem could have been resolved, and probably still could, by also offering the single jabs on the NHS.

 

[Barham's tash]

Measles in particular is a very nasty ****er. You need 95% population vaccination to have effective control of the disease.

I heard this morning on Radio 4 that we’re getting dangerously close to that number.

Now whilst the world could do with a good cull theres also a good reason vaccinations exist.

Don’t be an idiot. Get your kids vaccinated.

 

[Badger]

We come from a time when vaccination was the norm as the diseases around then could be killers. In our day I think everyone was queuing up for ANY vaccination rather than face Polio, Measles, Scarlet Fever etc, they never truly all went away but thanks to vaccines they were marginalised to a huge degree.

Nowdays, an adverse reaction to a vaccine gets proportionately more coverage and scares people off and gets them questioning the reasons why we vaccinate in a negative way.



EDIT : Yes, of course I was vaccinated and so was my daughter.

I guess this is part of the problem. People used to see what the diseases did to people and jumped at the opportunity to get vaccinated against them.

Nowadays most people don't have a clue what these diseases are.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

MMR is now inextricably linked with inducing autism. Proven to be false, probably, but there's patently huge numbers of parents out there not willing to take the risk.

Where do you get the 'probably' from?

 

[Brovion]

There is no probably about it. It is false. Unfortunately, social media has played a part in spreading false fears.

For every one child who isn't vaccinated, they can infect 15 others. I survived measles when I was 6 but many children weren't so lucky. Vaccinations wiped out smallpox, and measles should not be a worry nowadays.
Many Mums think it is a childhood disease, but it can cause blindness, deafness, meningitis and encephalitis, and death.
Please please please vaccinate your children.

Absolutely. As you say, all it takes is a few posts on social media, a couple of YouTube videos and soon the whole thing becomes an auto-generating, self-referencing mess. And anyone who tries to bring science into it is dismissed as one of the 'sheeple'.

It's not just 'MMR jabs give you Autism' of course: Americans didn't land on the moon, the earth is flat, climate change is a myth, no planes hit the twin towers on 9/11, etc. It's one of the tragedies of our time that the internet has allowed the feeble-minded to flock together, encourage each other and achieve critical mass. The (re)rise of the Flat Earth theory is particularly depressing.

And yes my children had all their shots, and my grandson's had his first batch. He cried a bit, that was all.

 

[Gwylan]

I had measles when I was about two. The doctor was so worried about me, she turned at our house at 11.00 at night, saying that I had a 50/50 chance of surviving.

Fortunately, I had no lasting effects from it but some people weren't so lucky. When I was a kid, people died or went blind from the disease, it's really not a minor disease.

If you have kids,don't be an idiot, get them vaccinated.