[Newsbot]

Title: Health officials warn against �measles parties�
Category: Health
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2015-02-10 12:28:15

[xerxes]

What a great idea! Maybe for the next theme party, the toddlers could all play with loaded handguns.

Serioulsy, this is willful ignorance at it's worst. Take their kids away; they're unfit parents.

[BartSimpson]

xerxes xerxes:

Serioulsy, this is willful ignorance at it's worst.

It's holistic medicine. Meaning that this particular moonbattery is practiced principally by upper income, well-educated, Obama voters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/va ... .html?_r=0

$1:

But here in California, anti-vaccine parents whose children have endured bouts of whooping cough and chickenpox largely defended their choice to raise their children on natural foods, essential oils and no vaccinations.

You have to learn to read the code words.

[ShepherdsDog]

Give some tabaccy juice to chug.....so they can get in touch with their spiritual center

[sandorski]

xerxes xerxes:

What a great idea! Maybe for the next theme party, the toddlers could all play with loaded handguns.

Serioulsy, this is willful ignorance at it's worst. Take their kids away; they're unfit parents.

That's clearly a party for adults. Something to pass the time while purposely Infecting the children.

That said, I vaguely remember my mom doing something like that either to me or with me around the time I got the Mumps. I overheard a conversation on the phone or something, it's all very vague now and may have been years before even when i had the measles. Hell, it may not have been my mom but a friend of hers who suggested it...

[xerxes]

I know it's a thing with chicken pox because while it sucks for kids, it can be brutal for adults. But measles is different.

[Gunnair]

Next up is an anthrax rodeo.

[xerxes]

Maybe an ebola orgy.

[Yogi]

Seriously, I just don't understand all the panic & knashing about measles. When I was a kid all kids I went to school with were encouraged to " Go over and visit with Stewart. He's got the measles/mumps/chicken pox/German measles." We didn't mind so much cuz we were fed copious amounts of ice cream & fruit juice, didn't have to do any chores and got our allownce anyway. We were treated with kid gloves! Seriously. What has happened in the last 50 years that now all childhood 'diseases' are causing such angst?

[Regina]

Maybe the bus can stop on the rail tracks on the way home and finish the job.

[DrCaleb]

Yogi Yogi:

Seriously, I just don't understand all the panic & knashing about measles. When I was a kid all kids I went to school with were encouraged to " Go over and visit with Stewart. He's got the measles/mumps/chicken pox/German measles." We didn't mind so much cuz we were fed copious amounts of ice cream & fruit juice, didn't have to do any chores and got our allownce anyway. We were treated with kid gloves! Seriously. What has happened in the last 50 years that now all childhood 'diseases' are causing such angst?

Because sometimes the effects of the Red or German Measles wasn't fatal, but it meant that a child may be bed ridden for months or years. We now understand that a simple vaccination means that a child doesn't have to go through the terrible fevers and itching and potentially life long consequences of a disease.

Why should they suffer when they don't have to?

[Gunnair]

Yogi Yogi:

Seriously, I just don't understand all the panic & knashing about measles. When I was a kid all kids I went to school with were encouraged to " Go over and visit with Stewart. He's got the measles/mumps/chicken pox/German measles." We didn't mind so much cuz we were fed copious amounts of ice cream & fruit juice, didn't have to do any chores and got our allownce anyway. We were treated with kid gloves! Seriously. What has happened in the last 50 years that now all childhood 'diseases' are causing such angst?

Diseases can kill children.

Beyond that, diseases don't need to be a right of passage for children today thanks to science. For some, however, there seems to be a drive to bring them back thanks to unimaginable ignorance.

[Yogi]

^^Thanks for the info fellas. It just seemed to me to be a lot of screaming & hollering for nothing. Now I can quite agree why put a kid thru sickness if it can be avoided.

[ShepherdsDog]

Just to play devil's advocate for a moment. Did we have more effective immune systems when when were being exposed to these pathogens as children? No one wants to risk losing a child, but in the long run are we weakening our resistance to disease? Once upon a time, because smallpox was endemic in European populations we had a natural resistance to the disease. Now it'll mow us down just like it did the populations of areas that had no exposure to it. With the growth of superbugs and our failure to develop newer antibiotics, have we compromised our natural immune system by offering up only dead or severely weakened pathogens in vaccines. Just a thought...not a serious proposition.

[BartSimpson]

From the Jon Stewart "Daily Show" an expose on how it's a bunch of liberals who started the ball rolling with the "anti-vaxxing" thing.

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/5t2dw ... slesrables

Go to 2:30 to see the good part.