Posted By: vernjones
Re: I get what you are saying....,
And I do understand a good bit about immunology- I know the vaccine does not make you sick, but part of how vaccines work in eliciting an immune response I think can cause people that are already subclinically compromised to have flu like symptoms.
That may be, but those symptoms are the normal immune response and their body is not being FURTHER compromised by an expanding population of viruses and bacteria. Vaccines are SUPPOSED to elicit an immune response and everyone responds differently. Each year, there are flu vaccine options. If you are X, Y and Z, you shouldn't get the Vaccine A but you get Vaccine B.
As far as herd mentality goes, for childhood diseases I agree with you- I am concerned about mom’s who don’t want their kids immunized against, say, measles, because they feel the vaccine is potentislly more harmful- but to a small child it could be deadly.
The statistics are clear: there is a greater chance of REAL harm from measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, etc. than from the vaccines themselves.
The thing I do object to is the medical community because of time and cost constraints giving a little one all vaccine injections in the same visit! I think this is a massive assault on the immune system and to think that they can have an appropriate immune response to such an onslaught of antigen and adjuvant given all at once is crazy! Never mind the trauma of seeing a little guy get for needles at once!
Last point first: MMR is usually given as a single, combination vaccination. Big deal. Kids will suffer more scrapes and scratches and falls than one little sterile needle stick. The CDC is constantly evaluating data to make the best recommendations at any given time. BECAUSE they are driven by scientific data and not astrological charts, the recommendations change from time to time. Current data leads them to recommend a particular vaccination schedule for children ... and to recommend against an older protocol that they now consider to be less effective. Next year or in a few years, they will update their recommendations BASED ON ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC DATA, not headline news stories.
