THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS. I want to print out like a hundred copies and hang it all over my workplace.
As you may know, I work at a pediatric hospital. Earlier this year (though it may have been last year -- my sense of time has been blurring together lately), there was an outbreak of measles in one of the outpatient clinics (either the neuro or epilepsy one). It's not that my hospital is filthy. It's the fact that sickness lives in hospitals. So, if you bring your unvaccinated child to a place that literally houses disease, what the hell do you think is going to happen?
In the winter, we had pertussis (which has to be my favourite name ever for a disease, seriously) sweep through the ER waiting room. Honestly, there's no excuse for Oregon Trail diseases infecting kids anymore.
In all honestly, I want to see Jenny McCarthy tried for manslaughter. Really, I do. Apparently, she retracted her opinion on vaccines, but it wasn't widely publicized (I didn't found out about it until two or three weeks ago). The damage she has singlehandedly done with her celebrity status is appalling. It's because of her skewed logic that we have children seriously ill. And you know what? What if these outbreaks had occurred in the outpatient oncology clinic? It doesn't matter if those kids had been vaccinated -- they don't have immune systems! The flu can kill them. There's no way they'd be able to stand up to a virus like measles.
So, in closing, thank you for doing the right thing and vaccinating your child. You have no idea how great of a thing that is.
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Date: 2010-11-08 05:53 am (UTC)As you may know, I work at a pediatric hospital. Earlier this year (though it may have been last year -- my sense of time has been blurring together lately), there was an outbreak of measles in one of the outpatient clinics (either the neuro or epilepsy one). It's not that my hospital is filthy. It's the fact that sickness lives in hospitals. So, if you bring your unvaccinated child to a place that literally houses disease, what the hell do you think is going to happen?
In the winter, we had pertussis (which has to be my favourite name ever for a disease, seriously) sweep through the ER waiting room. Honestly, there's no excuse for Oregon Trail diseases infecting kids anymore.
In all honestly, I want to see Jenny McCarthy tried for manslaughter. Really, I do. Apparently, she retracted her opinion on vaccines, but it wasn't widely publicized (I didn't found out about it until two or three weeks ago). The damage she has singlehandedly done with her celebrity status is appalling. It's because of her skewed logic that we have children seriously ill. And you know what? What if these outbreaks had occurred in the outpatient oncology clinic? It doesn't matter if those kids had been vaccinated -- they don't have immune systems! The flu can kill them. There's no way they'd be able to stand up to a virus like measles.
So, in closing, thank you for doing the right thing and vaccinating your child. You have no idea how great of a thing that is.