toldailytopic: Is it a good idea to vaccinate your children?

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toldailytopic: Is it a good idea to vaccinate your children?

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[Sherman]

toldailytopic: Is it a good idea to vaccinate your children?

Yes. Vaccines have been instrumental in stamping out many once common childhood diseases.

Vaccines contain weakened or dead versions of the antigens that cause diseases. This means the antigen cannot produce the disease, but it activates the immune system into producing antibodies making the child immune to the disease. Vaccines not only help keep children healthy, they help all children by stamping out serious childhood diseases.

Much of the objection against vaccines is the concern over their safety. Vaccines are actually quite safe. The protection provided by vaccines far outweighs their risks. Any treatment in medicine carries with it risk. There is greater risk in no treatment at all.

 

[Selaphiel]

It is irresponsible not to.

Of course this is another topic filled with wild conspiracy theories based on bad information. Vaccinations have eradicated horrible diseases from our world, end of story.

 

[Persephone66]

Yes.

:duh:

 

[Rusha]

Yes ...

 

[Cracked]

Absolutely--not that there can't be any risks, however slim.

 

[Town Heretic]

Is it a good idea to vaccinate your children?

No. Absolutely not. You should have a physician do it. lain:

 

[Traditio]

If you don't want your children to get polio, I recommend vaccinating them.

 

[Nick M]

A better question is which ones are not needed. We should still be innoculating for small pox. The former Soviet Union gave their sample to radical Islam. Well, they claim they lost it. But you know what Christ hating pig faced liars liberals are.

 

[Refractive]

toldailytopic: Is it a good idea to vaccinate your children?

Depends on how much you look forward to watching them die of smallpox or be crippled by polio, I guess.

Not vaccinating would certainly help with the pesky overpopulation problem, though.

 

[Dena]

Well, I guess I'll be the first to say "no" I don't think it's a good idea. And no, I don't plan on vaccinating our future kids. I don't get flu shots either.

 

[AmarBadz]

YES!! definitely yes.. it is a way of precaution, protection for the children from sickness and danger, although not literally means danger from evil since evil will find ways to endanger or hurt someone, but it is just an armor of protections againts germs and diseases.

 

[Tyrathca]

Well, I guess I'll be the first to say "no" I don't think it's a good idea. And no, I don't plan on vaccinating our future kids. I don't get flu shots either.

In the interests of creating some form of discussion, would you like to share why you made this decision?

 

[Silent Hunter]

toldailytopic: Is it a good idea to vaccinate your children?

. . . absolutely . . .

. . . either that . . . or . . . read chicken bones . . . or . . . bathe in the Ganges . . . or . . . sit in a sweat lodge . . . or . . . pray to any of a variety of deities (including the christian deity) . . . and we all know how pointless and ineffective any of these latter methods have worked out to prevent disease . . .

No. Absolutely not. You should have a physician do it.

. . . or a nurse . . . or someone trained to administer vaccines . . .

 

[jeneve]

Is it a good idea to vaccinate your children?

No. Absolutely not. You should have a physician do it. lain:

now there's a good idea..:idea: :thumb:

 

[Tyrathca]

On a further note I think it is a good idea to vaccinate yourself, not to protect yourself but to protect others such as the young and the elderly. For example I had the pertussis vaccination a few months ago, not for myself since the being an adult who was vaccinated as a child the disease will barely bother me but because I have regular contact with children (including infants) and could thus become carrier who infects them (which can be very severe).

 

[Sherman]

. . . absolutely . . .

. . . either that . . . or . . . read chicken bones . . . or . . . bathe in the Ganges . . . or . . . sit in a sweat lodge . . . or . . . pray to any of a variety of deities (including the christian deity) . . . and we all know how pointless and ineffective any of these latter methods have worked out to prevent disease . . .

. . . or a nurse . . . or someone trained to administer vaccines . . .

Utterly pointless post. What Christian in the thread up to this point has said not to vaccinate? Here you go dumping beer on the tables just to be a pest because you are a God hater.

 

[Silent Hunter]

. . . absolutely . . .

. . . either that . . . or . . . read chicken bones . . . or . . . bathe in the Ganges . . . or . . . sit in a sweat lodge . . . or . . . pray to any of a variety of deities (including the christian deity) . . . and we all know how pointless and ineffective any of these latter methods have worked out to prevent disease . . .

. . . or a nurse . . . or someone trained to administer vaccines . . .

Utterly pointless post. What Christian in the thread up to this point has said not to vaccinate?

. . . utterly NOT the point of the post . . . this would be you reading into the post what isn't there (at the least reading only you wanted to be offended by).

. . . perhaps you would do well to review . . .

. . . or . . . read chicken bones . . . (Voodoo)

. . . or . . . bathe in the Ganges . . . (Hindu)

. . . or . . . sit in a sweat lodge . . . (some American Indians)

. . . or . . . pray to any of a variety of deities (including the christian deity) . . . (anyone who "worships" a deity)

. . . we all know how pointless and ineffective any of these latter methods have worked out to prevent disease (see above).

. . . vaccinations prevent disease . . . not religious practices (but you didn't get that far for fear of being excused from your persecution complex).

Here you go dumping beer on the tables just to be a pest because you are a God hater.

. . . I don't "hate" any deity . . .

. . . how many "gods" do you hate? :think:

 

[SlightlyCurious]

On a further note I think it is a good idea to vaccinate yourself, not to protect yourself but to protect others such as the young and the elderly. For example I had the pertussis vaccination a few months ago, not for myself since the being an adult who was vaccinated as a child the disease will barely bother me but because I have regular contact with children (including infants) and could thus become carrier who infects them (which can be very severe).

I completely agree. You bring up a good point. I think the reason this topic is directed at children is because children are simply vaccinated with riskier pathogens. However, the risk is so infinitesimal I think they should be vaccinated anyway.

 

[Cracked]

Utterly pointless post. What Christian in the thread up to this point has said not to vaccinate? Here you go dumping beer on the tables just to be a pest because you are a God hater.

Lol... Silent Hunter seems to be a man of singular purpose...