NBC: “Flu shots fall among kids, hitting their lowest point in years: The U.S. last year hit a grim milestone: the most pediatric flu deaths since before the pandemic.”
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If it was all adults and I wasn't worried about them endangering people who can't get vaccinated for genuine medical contraindications, it would be so easy to say "okay fine, fuck around and find out"
But time and time again it is their kids, not the anti-vax adults, that pay the ultimate price.
When this young generation gets educated (or if they ever do), they won't understand why their parents put them at risk for preventable diseases and refused to help reduce climate change and gun shootings in schools.
We get the flu vaccine as a family here. Do the stats tell me that many adult morons also aren't being vaccinated for the flu. What a wonderfully shitty world we live in...
I never used to bother getting flu shots for our family, until our pediatrician said “You know who gets the flu shot every year? People who have had the flu.” ‘Nuf said. I trusted him to take care of my children - so I TRUSTED him. We get them every year now.
I almost died of flu as a kid and flu killed my grandfather before I was born. I get it religiously as soon as I can each year, have never had flu since I was in the hospital as a kid.
They've been looking forward to the apocalypse for a very long time and they have zero issues with sacrificing their own children on command and forcing rape victims to marry their rapists. Idk why people aren't more afraid of them.
It is just so crazy. Why would anyone trust people like Trump & RFK over centuries of scientific and clinical advances. Before the world attacked infectious diseases, life expectancy was extremely low. We have to live in the 21 st century not the fifteenth.
If it’s true what you said on CNBC that Trump doesn’t want people, especially children, to suffer from preventable illnesses then he should come out and recommend people get themselves and their families immunized.
Got mine as soon as it was available. It's very disappointing that so many adults trust medically unqualified social media influencers over doctors and scientists.
My twin brother and I had measles when we were four. This was before the vaccine was available. I will never forget the hallucinations. My parents called a priest to give me last rites. I suffered partial paralysis in my right hand as a result. A cousin my age died.
my uncle had polio, and my barber when I was a kid did as well, he walked with a brace.
we are an idiocracy. my grandfather lost 3 siblings by young adulthood due to childhood diseases which don't kill people anymore (but probably will again soon enough)
As a pediatric RN quality manager I have had to review adverse outcomes for unvaccinated children, including death. One thing that remains consistent across each incident; profound parental remorse.
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People have become so complacent and have acquired so much ignorance.
They don’t know history. They don’t know how vaccines work. They know disinformation and social media trends.
But time and time again it is their kids, not the anti-vax adults, that pay the ultimate price.
America the Reckless
America the Idiotic
America the Suicidal
😬
I was thinking coming from the top down the action will be banning or discrediting vaccines and the consequences will be more illness and death.
Seems both of us might be correct?😏
One year we got the flu right before we were scheduled to get flu shots. That was a terrible, miserable two weeks, and thankfully it was before kids.
We now schedule flu shots for no later than mid October.
People are busy and often can’t find a weekend where they’re “okay with feeling like shit for a couple of days.”
That’s certainly the case for me and my family!
I had the flu when I was 3. It nearly killed me then, and now 66 years later I blame it for my failing lungs.
we are an idiocracy. my grandfather lost 3 siblings by young adulthood due to childhood diseases which don't kill people anymore (but probably will again soon enough)
Vaccinate your kids. It’s love. ❤️
https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-018-1950-z