Cases of whooping cough in Michigan are at their highest level in at least 20 years, as vaccinations decline. The disease can be deadly to infants. Alarmed by the increase, doctors are pleading for families to vaccinate their children.
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They are really high in Wisconsin, as well. It’s so stupid that people aren’t getting vaccinated. My mom had the measles and was thrilled that her kids wouldn’t have to go through that.
This iteration of the Republican party , MAGA , would still be the dumbest around , if they lived in the Middle Ages . They" d be the ones swearing the earth was flat !!!
Yes. And at a time when we have more technology, medical advances, etc., than ever in history. Yet, all it took was a few dumbasses, and we're headed backward at warp speed.
If it were only those that choose not to vaccinate that would be fine. Let Darwinism take care of them. But so many others can’t be vaccinated for health reasons and they’re at risk.
Yes! I feel for people who feel like sitting ducks around all the idiots. I have asthma. When COVID progressed, (and before vaccines), I saw the stupidity of some forgoing masks. I was devastated. They were increasing my odds of getting it and dying a horrible death.
Yes. People assume that because we have “almost no polio” or whatever disease that we don’t have to worry. Or that for some “it’s just a cold”. We have lost all sense of community helping each other
Oh, yes, Americans don't spread disease!
It can only be spread by people outside America.
Mostly by non white people.
Right?
Let me guess...your IQ and age are about the same?
Perhaps they should, and then they wouldn't have such a peculiar view of the rest of the world. Although,wiith your new President's attitudes towards science and health, you'll find other countries might not be keen to have you.
Immunity from the whooping cough vaccine often wanes after a few decades.
Get a Tdap shot if it's been 10 years since your last one,
or if it's been >5 years and you get a dirty cut,
or if you're pregnant (CDC says 27-35 weeks.)
Adults are less likely to die than kids but it's still awful.
Now I know Stephen Miller is a ghoul & the strategist behind the 🍊🤡 but by trying to put RfKjr at HHS, he’s declaring war on our kids. Adults thru the 2000s at least had vax mandates for schooling. So it’s the elementary school kids at risk. The future.
There are also plenty of states, including my own, that allow for religious exemptions from vaccines. Anti-vaxxers know this and will (fraudulently) claim the religious excuse to get out of any school vaccine requirements.
Wealthy enclaves in CA have small groups that do not vaccinate kids.
Got real quiet during Covid.
Of course are relying on others to vaccinate so their kid not exposed...and also distance from diverse immigrant populations and diseases generally not see.
We have had successively worse years of pertussis in North ID/Eastern WA area over the past several years. Antivaxxers are not helping society by doing what they’re doing and their kids are suffering for it.
You don't get to publicly endanger everybody else with your shit just because you were fucking stupid enough to believe some ignorant jackass on YouTube.
My granddaughter is in Michigan, her pediatrician won’t accept anti-vaxxers as patients.
I agree completely imagine treating or being exposed to diseases that are entirely preventable 😡😡
It's so those young children who are too young to get vaccinated or can't be vaccinated don't get exposed to those who may have it. He's protecting his patients. Good for him.
My son was fully vaccinated for whooping cough but we lived in an area where vaccinations were low. The whooping cough vaccination is 70% effective. Unfortunately, my son got whooping cough at the age of five. Believe me, you never want your child to get that disease.
Karma doing her job.
Unfortunately, it's the children who are and will suffer.
The antivax parents of kids who die from vaccine preventable diseases deserve to be imprisoned, but that helps no one.
So sad. When did we get here? To this place of madness where we are willing to offer the lives of our dearest beloved children on the altar of ignorance and insanity. In the 1800s and 1900s children died from this awful disease. But the vaccine changed that. We ha have a cure but people refuse it.
Charles Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest” wasn’t just referring to the biggest or strongest of a species but also the most clever and intelligent. Those who are dumb enough to believe antivax nonsense are most certain to prove Charles Darwin’s theory correct.
I get it about every 10 years. This year it was inspired by an encounter with dirty old barbed wire. Sore arm from the jab as always, but no other side effects.
Do these anti vax parents believe their children are naturally immune from these diseases..will they sit back and watch when they die painfully due to their on utter stupidity
I’d argue it’s attempted murder. People know vaccines aren’t dangerous, they’re just too prideful and stubborn to change their minds even for the sake of their children.
which is ironic considering neither of them are fit. trumps complained his whole life to get out of things. RFK jr had the brainworm. not the brightest. it’s terrifying.
Congrats on quitting.
I quit for 25 years.
Then tRump became president the first time.
I enjoy my menthols at 76 years old again. I've got another what? 7 years left? 4 of them are going to be consumed by the Orange Mussolini. I'm doin' whatever I want now. Life's short, play hard.
Because they're angry and just sad, stupid people.
Trust me - I live in a 150 condo community. So many sad people who are mean because they're just sad.
Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children should have to sign a waver that exempts drs & hospitals from providing care when they get the illness they refused to vaccinate for. Am sure those Health insurance co.'s would sign on for that- no vaccine no coverage. Pay out of pocket for all costs
Charging them with child abuse and public endangerment is more appropriate than allowing them to get a waiver to kill their children and the children of others
The problem with antivaxxers “choice” argument isn’t just that vaccines are effective, but that they don’t have the right to impose viral catastrophe upon their neighbors
Yup, that might convince a few to actually think about the consequences of not vaccinating their kids. And insurance companies always want to keep their costs down so they would agree.
I am all for this. Sick of non-MDs and infectious disease experts being challenged by worm-brained weirdos who were never educated in medicine, don't treat patients and have no clue what they are doing and no concept of what they are reading most of the time. So, so sick of it.
I had whooping cough as a baby. I don’t obviously remember it but my mother didn’t even want to talk about how sick I was.
Now every time I get that DPT booster my arm swells up and throbs for 2 days.
Why would anyone put their babies through that agony?
Let them die. What in the world is wrong with anti-vaxxers not having children that live to reproduce?
Before you finger wag about the suffering of innocent children, would you rather have those kids go through a decade or more of likely violence and neglect?
Clinics just ignore appointment directives specifically to update immunizations. Tried for decades and they still print the stupid sheet up they ignore.
The anti-Kennedy insane pseudo medical expert with his attorney. Wants the FDA to ban the polio vaccine. And the atrocities in Samoa with his campaign against the measles vaccine caused 83 deaths. Even further he wants to ban most vaccines for children. Or adult vaccine for Covid 19 banned.
Not only children but some adults are more susceptible to WC and it's long range effects. High-risk adults, such as those with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Long range effects are possible even if the initial bout is survived.
We saw what happened when kids started getting shot in school. Thirty years later and it just keeps getting worse. What makes anyone think this society cares about children’s well-being anymore?
The NRA wants something other than guns to be the number one killer of children in our country. They told Trump and Trump told RFK Jr. to take care of that.
Vaccinations are down everywhere - you can’t fix stupid. Maybe this is just another step in the path to success as we evolve further. Well, some of us will evolve. The rest will go backwaters and become monkeys again.
I was a young infant when I was hospitalized with whooping cough. My parents were told I was not expected to live through the night. I was told that I had it before the first dose is recommended. It’s crazy that we may go back to no mandatory vaccines
This country was know for the progress we made to end disease with vaccinations. Now we have idiots living in this country making up false claims and acting on feelings than factually data. This is why Trump was elected again this country is getting dumber and GOP enjoy it!
Correlation does not mean causation… MAGAt on vaccination. Voting.. just b/c they didn’t get enough votes does not mean he lost. Statics is fluid for them…
Parents - vaccinate your children. And then make sure they take their science classes seriously. They don’t have to go into a STEM field, but they should know how things work. America cannot be great if it’s citizens are ignorant fools.
Obviously good advice but the problem we have here is that the republicans have put our educational system in the toilet and want that ignorance to continue and do not give one hoot who dies as a result.
Do it before Brain-Worm-Man RFK makes it illegal to get that and other critically important vaccines. ATM, his attorney is trying to get approval pulled from the polio vaccine and inhibit people's ability to obtain it legally in the U.S. Can pertussis, mumps, measles & rubella be far behind?
Once he does that other countries won’t let us in. If they know we’re not vaccinating, especially for polio they will lock their doors to us. This is another repercussion these total idiots dont understand
It's not like that. We need a level of vaccination across the population. The more people who are vaxxed, the fewer opportunities a disease has to spread. High vaccination rates not only protect ourselves, we also protect infants who are not fully vaccinated yet & people w/ weakened immune systems
Well, rural America voted in droves for Trump, and their Medicaid is on the chopping block in the new administration. They always seem to vote against their own interests.
People's innocent children will suffer as well as compromised people who cannot be vaccinated. I suppose you feel that Darwin is justice for these people v too?
Yes, they will. Used to be you couldn’t attend school unless you were vaccinated. Couldn’t play sports unless you were vaccinated. It’s important stuff.
You raise a valid point on the compromised people. The adults who do not vaccinate their innocent children will be responsible for their actions, and in some worst cases it will be Darwinism. We can't fix their stupid.
Steve, not everyone CAN be immunized. And some of us have shit immune systems.
No, we won't be better for it. Measles ran rampant before there was a vaccine, and it didn't help anything except for the guys who made tiny tombstones.
I feel bad for the kids. They shouldn’t have to bear the outcome of their parent’s stupidity. Maybe the parents should have to sign a financial waiver so society doesn’t have to pick up the tab.
Contagious diseases should have strict prevention requirements, including mandated vaccination and isolation. Period. Doctors shouldn’t have to plead with the ignorant/mis-disinformed.
School districts no students allow in schools without vaccinations! PEROID!
Maybe the religious school will take them in!
Wait till a parents sues the school districts !
What's OSHA thinking about this?
I had whooping cough as a child, and it was miserable. Apparently, Kennedy is getting rid of everything. Get ready for another pandemic in 2025 it is coming.
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A high infant mortality rate leads people to have far more children, they probably calculated that a raft of dead kids will be made up for by increased birth rates.
Then switch the narrative, promote vaccines and you have an instant population boost.
Whooping Cough kills babies. I worked in Kaiser pediatrics & they would vaccinate the family members of newborns for whooping cough. Even if they weren't Kaiser patients. I can't understand why anyone would risk the life of their child.
The ones who think they know better than the entire medical profession, and believe that “natural foods and healthy living!” or some kind of snake oil on the market will keep their kids safe. Or that “the diseases aren’t so bad, doctors just try to scare us so they can make $$$$ from the vax!”
(Newsflash to these people: plenty of kids in the pre-vaccine days lived healthier lives without soda & processed foods and they caught the diseases anyway. And most vaccines, other than the newest ones on the market, are NOT profitable.)
Mother of 4 here. You can vaccinate your children at your comfort level…infants don’t need 8 shots in one visit…spread them out within a couple/few weeks. It’s just an office visit with a nurse. JUST VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN!
the boys in my family,including me, have a history of reacting badly to the whooping cough vaccine esp when in combination with other vaccines.I got them spread out and myself included as an adult and we got minor night sweats and meningeal signs.
Worth it I reckon though.
Gonna be a lot of gofundmes for the pertussis generation, I guess, since we wont have the ACA —> babies with pneumonia, rib fractures from violent coughing, seizures, and of course….death.
So yeah, no abortion because it kills "babies" but infants dying from pertussis and other preventable diseases is fine. I predict a lot of teeth gnashing and an awful amount of tears in the coming years.
As a teacher in MI—I wish that I had remembered to update my DTaP last August. I am still
in pain. If these easily eradicated diseases circulate there will be even fewer teachers. I don’t want to work in an environment that is so dangerous.
Ahha!
here it comes.
The community viral load for whooping cough is relatively high and even vaccinated individuals are vulnerable.
I think measles will be next.
This is insane. I treated a man who had developmental disability due to contracting whooping cough before there was a vaccine. I am frightened by the ignorance that parents put their children at risk. They are gonna kill us.
Yes, the human species doesn't really seem fit to survive. We are, in general, too stupid for the power we have been given. Putting the dumbest people on Earth in control of one of the most powerful nations on Earth is very illustrative of that.
Did not get my booster in time and caught whooping cough from an unvaccinated friend and coughed my guts up for six weeks. My oxygen levels tanked at 89%. Very hard to function.
We just went to Urgent Care & heard the same story about our county in Southern Wisconsin.
I remember taking the polio vaccine on a sugar cube!
I remember a neighborhood child...
These are some of the most dreadful diseases ever known to man. These people think because they’ve never seen it, that it’s not dangerous, it’s too late when it enters a non vaccinated body, they will probably die in agony
My aunt had polio in 1918 when she was nine. I watched her struggle physically from the early 1950s until she died of a relapse of that horrible disease in 1987. She was 79.
If Trump and RFK eliminate vaccines will United Health Care and the other Insurance Companies cover treatment for polio, measles, etc.?
(Credit Michael Steele for asking this question.)
You know what happens on this no vaccinations is less people of naive people to be
Terrible to be so blunt. Those who lead know, those who follow stay naive,ignorant & then become arrogant to lead more naive people. ask Jr RJK if that’s okay to continue to be cruel, he enjoys blaming confliction
This medical stupidity is profound.
I have Decades of requesting updated vaccines as per the paper they waste a tree printing that healthcare workers categorically ignore.
You can request immunizations update all you want, if you're not a baby they won't do it!!!
As in the clinic gives you a statement regarding updating vaccines, you expressly ask for that at the next appointment before the retiring husband's employment tied insurance ends and healthcare categorically ignores updating vaccines for seniors.
Just inoculate us, anti-vaxxers will say no.
Why have so many in our country become skeptical of science, but not of politicians? I just don't get it. Vaccinations are proven to be effective, for decades. SMDH
People don’t care or are lazy. Me n mine are vaccinated. Where I live unfortunately a lot don’t believe in vaccination including my idiot brother (yeah I bring him up a lot bc he’s an idiot).
I have an idiot brother too. Refused to get a covid vax (even though he got all kinds of vaxxes from his time in the army!) until my parents were able to talk him into it. And yes, he got covid because he wouldn't mask or vax. I'll give you 3 guesses as to how he votes & the first 2 don't count.
Parents who refuse to get their children vaccinated should have to sign an LOA of guilt if their child gets sick and infects a child that can't get the vaccines due to underlying health reasons like my grandson was born with half a heart and couldn't get fully vaccinated.. 😡
If you were vaccinated as a child and you are now an adult, the vaccine wears off and you need a booster. You really do not want to get whooping cough. It’s brutal.
My husband caught whooping cough in 2019 (he works at an international airport), went septic, and almost died. I was vaccinated against it and never caught it. He had a long recovery and did permanent damage to his lungs.
Easy to fix. Boostrix covers tetanus, pertussis and diphtheria. The shot doesn’t burn and it causes minimal soreness. Available at a drugstore near you and usually covered by insurance
It's obvious, it's clear, and anyone can see the correlation. Fewer vaccinations equals greater disease. And these anti-vaxxers and those uneducated people are inflicting waves of once-contained sickness and death on the rest of us. It's bizarre. We need better megaphones to blast out the truth.
I'll bet the super rich are all vaccinated. Sucking people into the anti vaxx movement is another way the rich are fighting the class war against the poor and uneducated.
I had it when I was 5. I was exposed a shortly after I was vaccinated. I was sick for 6 months. The only pictures of me from that time show me laying down with a stuffed animal and a book, and very thin. I had that awful cough for years. I heard that cough in my dr. office, glad I had a mask on.
I had it when I was ten yrs and it s not just the cough its the pain in the chest that went along with it and losing one s breath turning you blue. My mother went into panic attacks on several occasions and felt helpless.
I really can't believe we've gotten THIS stupid. I mean, I know there are dumb people, but this kind of shit is going to kill people &/or disable them for life. Are they trying to get pre-existing conditions, they won't cover for everyone, or to trying to target the undesirables, which are actually
It's not just infants.
Kids (and adults) with cancer and on immunetherapeutics for autoimmune and other rare diseases, as well as kids/adults who have had organ transplants are at high risk.
Don’t get me started on this. Vaccinate your children. Your grandparents had 10+ kids because half of them of them died before the age of two. Before vaccinations infant mortality rates were absolutely ridiculous. Stop being “natural” and start listening to the people who study this shit.
And if their kids didn't die, the wives often did from having all those children, so the husband would just marry a younger one to have even more kids.
My late mother was one of 7. Her oldest brother, Joseph, died from pneumonia at 18. I have a new great nephew, 3 months old. His mother is a physician's assistant & dad is a firefighter-paramedic. Baby Luke is going to get all his vaccines.
The logic of some that they’ll no vaccinate their cats, no questions asked but not their kids. Reminds of idiots on holiday who put their passport in the hotel room safe but leave their kids alone asleep while they go out on a piss up.
just wait, polio, mumps, rubella, measles, they are all killers of our children BUT that is how the republikkkins operate, remove the freedom of womens choice, forced births, let them die of the diseases once eradicated with the vaccines they want removed from market. Why I hate stupid In the red 🧢
Just wait till RFK, Jr stops polio vaccines and pauses another THIRTEEN other routine vaccines “for further investigation.” GET YOUR VACCINES NOW! TDAP is every 10 yrs. Shingles AND Prevnar (age dropped) if 50. RSV if 60 or pulmonary risk and of course flu and COVID. Stock up on quality KN95 masks.
Of course it is, but we have the unqualified Q’s coming in to run things just to shred everything up. I’m becoming more convinced that the ONLY way we stop these MFers is for massive walk-outs and that includes hospitals.
They are definitely trying to stop these mad mthrfkrs and RFKKK’s lawyer is as much of a conspiracy nut as Nutcase Kennedy literally during the government.
I have a physical on Friday and I'm asking about Prevnar. I'm not 60,but did get the shingles shot when I turned 50. I had shingles once. A mild case was mad painful.
They did? Last year I inquired about it but my insurance company does not cover until 60. I am just a bit shy of that. My niece got Shingles in her late 20s, so anyone can get it even if it is more common among older folks.
They just dropped the age requirement for Prevnar in October so it should be covered.
Getting Shingles is not something anyone wants. The neuritis can last mos/yrs and if in your eye, you can lose your vision. It’s a 2 dose vax so start now. 2nd dose sucks but a day on the couch offsets Shingles.
Vaccinations are one of the CDC’s 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century. IMHO opinion vaccines and clean water did more to increase longevity than most others.
Your exactly right ✅️ were going to digress 100 years if they stop vaccinations and then add cancelations of the EPA and other Agencies. People should be extremely concerned.
As am I it's pretty evident that were going to be living in 1800's soon it's very depressing to be going back in progress all for the benefits of the Billionaire's. Fortunately the people will revolt eventually as it has throughout time. Our future is dim that's why I try to stay positive.
I think most folks that have joined @bsky.app are the ones with the intelligence that make sure their kids get vaccines. It's just a sad fact that innocent kids will suffer because of pure ignorance.
Stupidity in Michigan skyrockets as parents decline to safeguard their kids against disease. And they get mad at my Dr. daughter, when she asks them in the ER if their very sick child has been vaccinated.
Bet they expect all the stops pulled out for their (preventable) sick child though. Happy to go bankrupt in the process (USA). Bizarre. I don’t understand why people go against their own interests. Ideology I guess.
I was vaccinated for everything available when I was a child. I never questioned any vaccination offered to my kids either. That is just irresponsible and stupid. I have had all the Covid shots offered to me, RSV shot, flu shot, and pneumonia shot. I ain't taking no chances!
I have been wondering if I should be boosted for MMR and tetanus too. Also, someone on here mentioned getting boosted for whooping cough. I didn't know there was one available.
A TDaP booster will cover both tetanus and whooping cough (acronym: Tetanus / Diphtheria/ acellular Pertussis); it’s recommended to get one routinely every 10 years.
MMR: my own dr told me, if someone only ever got one MMR dose as a child, it might be a good idea to get a 2nd dose.
As a teacher in MI who believes in vaccines—remembered my Covid, flu, and shingles shots—I wish I had remembered my DTaP vaccine. It needs to be updated every ten years and it has been 17. I have been sick for eight weeks now and had pneumonia. Pleurisy is painful—it hurts to sneeze. Misery.
You know, I would be behind insurance companies denying coverage (or at least doubling deductibles) if they did not do the recommended thing like preventive care that is recommended by pediatricians everywhere!
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This infectious disease problem, exacerbated by low vaccination rates, climate change, and Science denying MAGA in power, is not going to go well for America.
This is no joke! My daughter just had a baby and based on her pediatrician’s recommendation, asked everyone who’s in close contact with their baby get TDAP, which I did. I’m a strong defender of individual liberty, but wish people were making their decisions based on science vs. fear.
Welp, it hurts me to say this, but in this country parents have total control over their children’s health and the decision not to vaccinate is an example of Darwinism at the expense of said children. 😢
The problem is that this vaccination is given at 12mo, meaning a whole lot of babies whose parents plan to get them vaccinated can also fall ill, suffer and die.
Unfortunately not true. How her son had whooping cough as an infant, even though he had been vaccinated. Vaccines are not 100%, and depend on community compliance. Fortunately, our son recovered, because his mother did not accept the b******* diagnosis from the inexperienced pediatrician.
It's usually included with the tetanus booster for adults. Generally speaking, if adults can't remember when they had their last tetanus shot, they should get a Tdap. Infants can't be immunized. It's up to adults to protect them.
Tetanus shots come in Td and Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis.)
Adults should get Tdap every 10 years, or when pregnant,
and if you've stepped on a rusty nail/gotten a cat bite/etc,
get a booster if it's been more than 5 years
or your medical clinic has lost their records like mine did :-)
I got it years ago. I was vaccinated as a kid but the protection wears off. I got misdiagnosed and was sick for months. It’s a nasty disease. When they finally checked my antibodies they were off the charts. It kills babies.
It’s terrible. When I had Whooping Cough the doctor assumed it was my asthma and I was sick for three months. Once I got on antibiotics it was cured immediately. Meanwhile I have no idea who I infected. I’m still mad about it. That disease is horrible. I pulled muscles from coughing so hard.
We now live in a country where a woman can be jailed for having a life saving abortion yet can kill her child by refusing science and that’s totally acceptable.
Because of an article I read about 8 years ago regarding the waning of measles protection in older adults from their childhood vaccines, I got tested. I was ok with measles, but I ended up getting a booster for mumps and a couple others.
It does wear off! One of our teens got Whopping Cough in high school. It spread to others who were vaxxed and they all had to isolate at home.
Get the booster and stop the spread.
I caught this as a healthy, strong adult. It's miserable. It damages the cilia in your lungs & your lungs take 2-3 months to recover. Imagine what that means for an infant or the elderly. Getting a Tdap vaccine every 10 years, you're protected from Tetanus, diphtheria & whooping cough. #VaccinesWork
Isn't the coughing just the worse? I coughed so hard I couldn't breathe. I caught it while teaching at my university. Prior to that it wasn't even on my radar. H1N1 must have been awful!
My last Tdap was eight years ago and I’ve got it now. I’m sure I’d be sicker if not vaccinated. Been sick for 2 1/2 weeks. We’re losing herd immunity because people are skipping vaccinations.
I'm so sorry! I hope you start feeling better soon. I agree. The low level of vaccination for some formerly common illnesses is putting us at risk for them to start spreading widely again. We're putting kids at risk as a result.
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Now MDs & nurses have to plead with parents who think they're being so clever & smart to deny vaccines for their kids.
It's getting harder and harder to hold on to sanity right now, but hold on we must.
It can only be spread by people outside America.
Mostly by non white people.
Right?
Let me guess...your IQ and age are about the same?
Any bets on how soon RFK can bring back the black plague and small pox?
It’s getting worse because regardless of how it got here, morons continue to refuse decades of verified research on vaccines.
If they vaccinated their kids, it wouldn’t be getting exponentially worse.
Get a Tdap shot if it's been 10 years since your last one,
or if it's been >5 years and you get a dirty cut,
or if you're pregnant (CDC says 27-35 weeks.)
Adults are less likely to die than kids but it's still awful.
Ghouls. Just monsters.
Got real quiet during Covid.
Of course are relying on others to vaccinate so their kid not exposed...and also distance from diverse immigrant populations and diseases generally not see.
Adults must get Tdap boosters every 10 years.
I agree completely imagine treating or being exposed to diseases that are entirely preventable 😡😡
My son was fully vaccinated for whooping cough but we lived in an area where vaccinations were low. The whooping cough vaccination is 70% effective. Unfortunately, my son got whooping cough at the age of five. Believe me, you never want your child to get that disease.
Now I need to just find a moron
Unfortunately, it's the children who are and will suffer.
The antivax parents of kids who die from vaccine preventable diseases deserve to be imprisoned, but that helps no one.
I quit for 25 years.
Then tRump became president the first time.
I enjoy my menthols at 76 years old again. I've got another what? 7 years left? 4 of them are going to be consumed by the Orange Mussolini. I'm doin' whatever I want now. Life's short, play hard.
Trust me - I live in a 150 condo community. So many sad people who are mean because they're just sad.
It's innately selfish - in the most life or death sense - to oppose vaccines. Because herd immunity is needed, especially for the most frail.
But selfishness is at the rotten core of these people.
My heart is rotten to the core."
Van Halen
how about no
Now every time I get that DPT booster my arm swells up and throbs for 2 days.
Why would anyone put their babies through that agony?
Before you finger wag about the suffering of innocent children, would you rather have those kids go through a decade or more of likely violence and neglect?
Free to put your kids and other people's babies at risk, as the founders intended.
I opened the window and in flu Enza.
Long range effects are possible even if the initial bout is survived.
The reasoning behind RFK Jr's attack on vaccines:
The NRA wants something other than guns to be the number one killer of children in our country. They told Trump and Trump told RFK Jr. to take care of that.
Just evolution at work
Steve, not everyone CAN be immunized. And some of us have shit immune systems.
No, we won't be better for it. Measles ran rampant before there was a vaccine, and it didn't help anything except for the guys who made tiny tombstones.
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Maybe the religious school will take them in!
Wait till a parents sues the school districts !
What's OSHA thinking about this?
Full stop.
I still can’t imagine a parent being cool with tetanus. That’s an extremely painful way to die.
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Their logic on this one escapes me.
Then switch the narrative, promote vaccines and you have an instant population boost.
I think I get it now. They want to wipe out the people who wouldn't be having kids (or more than two) anyway: the better educated, who lean left.
Meanwhile, they keep convincing "quiverful" types that it's their godly duty to breed more and more.
Sound right to your ear?
Worth it I reckon though.
in pain. If these easily eradicated diseases circulate there will be even fewer teachers. I don’t want to work in an environment that is so dangerous.
here it comes.
The community viral load for whooping cough is relatively high and even vaccinated individuals are vulnerable.
I think measles will be next.
I remember taking the polio vaccine on a sugar cube!
I remember a neighborhood child...
(Credit Michael Steele for asking this question.)
Terrible to be so blunt. Those who lead know, those who follow stay naive,ignorant & then become arrogant to lead more naive people. ask Jr RJK if that’s okay to continue to be cruel, he enjoys blaming confliction
I have Decades of requesting updated vaccines as per the paper they waste a tree printing that healthcare workers categorically ignore.
You can request immunizations update all you want, if you're not a baby they won't do it!!!
Just inoculate us, anti-vaxxers will say no.
Kids (and adults) with cancer and on immunetherapeutics for autoimmune and other rare diseases, as well as kids/adults who have had organ transplants are at high risk.
Died) and only the 3 born after 1900 lived to be adults.
SPOILER ALERT: RABIES IS 💯 FATAL THERE IS NO CURE FOR EITHER ANIMAL OR HUMAN.
I HATE ANTIVAXXER MORONS!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
People are idiots.
Yeah Shingles sucks—for a long time.
Getting Shingles is not something anyone wants. The neuritis can last mos/yrs and if in your eye, you can lose your vision. It’s a 2 dose vax so start now. 2nd dose sucks but a day on the couch offsets Shingles.
MMR: my own dr told me, if someone only ever got one MMR dose as a child, it might be a good idea to get a 2nd dose.
SO... Apparently #PutinsDUMMY did NOT kill off enough
USAmericans with Covid-19 So Now he installed
another DUMMY to help with Mass Murdering US
with DJT & MAGA All Roads Lead to RUSSIA
.
It’s like they just forgot the first time. So now MAGA is just a bunch of masochists in service to rich people.
YEP !! & IMO
That's if Half Did !
I just do NOT Believe
A CONVICTED FELON (for cheating 2016 election)
who Ran to stay Out of Jail
surrounded by other Crooks & Felons with Lots of Money
GOP suppress Votes -
They Lie & Cheat & Steal & Helped by Russ
TOO Many Discrepancies - He did NOT Win
.
Adults should get Tdap every 10 years, or when pregnant,
and if you've stepped on a rusty nail/gotten a cat bite/etc,
get a booster if it's been more than 5 years
or your medical clinic has lost their records like mine did :-)
Get the booster and stop the spread.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2024/11/08/womens-march-protest-dc-trump-2024