tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399701802496487396.post1863180876296461797..comments2023-10-12T11:37:47.156-04:00Comments on ABSURDIST PARADISE: Another Parenting Post: Valentines and ImmunizationsEarnest Englishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01947000435270263070noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399701802496487396.post-89626570439192252472010-02-13T12:00:26.009-05:002010-02-13T12:00:26.009-05:00oooh la la! very pretty, springy layout!oooh la la! very pretty, springy layout!Maudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11918488082176862598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399701802496487396.post-87992923697318105872010-02-11T19:43:36.064-05:002010-02-11T19:43:36.064-05:00I'll cross my fingers for AL if you'll cro...I'll cross my fingers for AL if you'll cross your fingers for me, ok? <br /><br />My student did a project on teh swine flu shot. Get this: It's really only beneficial if you get the regular flu shot and that you do that every year. So it's really not great to only get the swine flu shot if you haven't gotten the flu shot. (This is from her kid's doctor and several other sources.) <br /><br />As a non-parent, I have a lot of sympathy on the topic. I hear all the conflicting stories about immunizations-how can you not-and can't make heads or tails of it. There are things I'd immunize against--like the same shots I had as a child, but I don't know if you can just pick and choose like that. My mom, an RN, would tell you to do them all because you're supposed to, etc etc. She also expected me to get the flu and swine flu shots. I did not. I got the swine flu, lived, not a big deal.<br /><br />There's a growing amount of research that suggests we shelter children from too many things--germs, illness, etc--creating weakened immune systems for the rest of the child's life. My student I mentioned is an example of this--she over does it and now has to get her daughter all kinds of meds and shots to keep her healthy, the kid always seems to get sick. It sure makes me give pause. At the very least, I'd hesitate about swine flu, esp if you didn't do the regular flu shot.rented lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03794602752542828844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399701802496487396.post-32618355483642515752010-02-11T11:31:46.278-05:002010-02-11T11:31:46.278-05:00Crossing fingers for job searching!
Also thinking...Crossing fingers for job searching!<br /><br />Also thinking there should be a movement re: submitting pot holders and crocheted things as part of tenure apps. How cool that would be!<br /><br />My kids love to get their grape motrin drops, too. And their chewy vitamins ("gummymins").Inkhttp://inktopia.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399701802496487396.post-44777965294274174402010-02-11T11:02:34.275-05:002010-02-11T11:02:34.275-05:00potholders? crocheting? pictures!!!!potholders? crocheting? pictures!!!!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399701802496487396.post-45705683577623649902010-02-11T09:44:39.578-05:002010-02-11T09:44:39.578-05:00I am just talking about myself there....not trying...I am just talking about myself there....not trying to convince you of anything. I do consider the vaccine a risk. And I haven't done any swine flu or anything like that because they just invented it yesterday and I really don't trust it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399701802496487396.post-62780531015031373812010-02-11T09:43:27.452-05:002010-02-11T09:43:27.452-05:00I had a friend who didn't initially immunize h...I had a friend who didn't initially immunize her boys. She was against immunization in general for many of the reasons you cite. She would characterize not immunizing as fitting with her beliefs and values--the same beliefs and values that meant her children were never allowed to watch television. Totally not about religion and yet the language was about religion.<br /><br />Now that I've said that, they layered the objection that vaccines are made with tissue from aborted fetuses over the top of the rest of it as a kind of last straw. It was the key reason no one at their very conservative catholic church had their kids immunized.<br /><br />I wouldn't say it was an unthinking decision but it was more convincing to the doctor if the reason were religious rather than simply a matter of the potential harm caused by vaccines. <br /><br />It seems to me doctors have something invested in convincing people to vaccinate for the sake of public health. I've known church communities that didn't vaccinate and they just pass around 19th century diseases. It's not massive carnage or anything but there are sometimes deaths--usually in the very young or those who are weakened for some other reason--and there are definitely hospitalizations. I decided I would take my chances with the vaccines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com