Polite Dissent

Make sure your children get their vaccinations. We are spoiled here in the US with our good health care system. Most of us have never seen measles, diptheria, or whooping cough. Infants are rarely born deformed with congenital rubella. No one remembers iron lungs. We have become complacent about the importance immunizations.

I understand some people have philosophical difficulties with vaccines. I think these people are misinformed or misguided, and I will do my best to change their views. But if they are making a bad decision, at least they have a reason behind it.

What I absolutely cannot stand is when people are just too lazy to get their children immunized. Now it is a year and a half later, and he is paying the price. I think he’ll be fine. I’ll do what I can, we all will, but I wish you had been this concerned about his health then.
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