Vaccines in general, with a special bit about adjuvants and squalene.
I almost bit my tongue clean off once while trying very VERY hard not to comment to a bunch of adults with state paid insurance (state employees) bitching about the existence of vaccines and how they cause autism and blah blah mercury and blah blah this and blah blah that and they always get sick after the flu vax etc. I was almost shaking with anger at their spreading of ignorance, and ALSO trying to figure how I was going to scrape together the cash for a flu vax as the year BEFORE I'd gotten the flu AND bronchitis and narrowly escaped the bronch turning into pneumonia (which has happened to me before) It was a hellish few weeks and one which I, a pregnant person, did not want to repeat. (I wound up finding a place that claimed to accept my destitute state insurance and gave me the special pregnancy thimersol free shot, even though I had to go to a different pharmacy for it. They refused to give me a shot WITH thimerisol because OMG TEH AUTIZIMS, then said that my insurance didn't actually cover the flu shot, but I made sad eyes at them and they comped me.)
I just finished reading "Wisconsin Death Trip," which features articles and obits and photos etc from turn of the century newspapers. The frequency of deaths associated with diphtheria is astounding and terrifying. We are so protected and coddled when it comes to deadly childhood (and adulthood) diseases. We act like it's a perversion of nature when adults bury children, but until VERY recently it was incredibly common... and it remains so in many parts of the world.
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I almost bit my tongue clean off once while trying very VERY hard not to comment to a bunch of adults with state paid insurance (state employees) bitching about the existence of vaccines and how they cause autism and blah blah mercury and blah blah this and blah blah that and they always get sick after the flu vax etc. I was almost shaking with anger at their spreading of ignorance, and ALSO trying to figure how I was going to scrape together the cash for a flu vax as the year BEFORE I'd gotten the flu AND bronchitis and narrowly escaped the bronch turning into pneumonia (which has happened to me before) It was a hellish few weeks and one which I, a pregnant person, did not want to repeat. (I wound up finding a place that claimed to accept my destitute state insurance and gave me the special pregnancy thimersol free shot, even though I had to go to a different pharmacy for it. They refused to give me a shot WITH thimerisol because OMG TEH AUTIZIMS, then said that my insurance didn't actually cover the flu shot, but I made sad eyes at them and they comped me.)
I just finished reading "Wisconsin Death Trip," which features articles and obits and photos etc from turn of the century newspapers. The frequency of deaths associated with diphtheria is astounding and terrifying. We are so protected and coddled when it comes to deadly childhood (and adulthood) diseases. We act like it's a perversion of nature when adults bury children, but until VERY recently it was incredibly common... and it remains so in many parts of the world.