5 Reasons To NOT Vaccinate Your Kids
People shouldn’t have to vaccinate their kids. In fact, parents absolutely know what’s best for their kids in every situation, which is why you’ve never heard of a mom calling a doctor at two AM because her child has a fever.
Moms automatically know exactly what to do. They know better than anyone what their child needs or doesn’t need.
That’s why the vaccination debate is so ridiculous to me…because moms inherently know more than everyone. Which brings me to this… 5 Reasons To NOT Vaccinate Your Kids.
When a woman conceives a child, the entirety of human knowledge is written into her essence and as that child is brought forth unto this world, that knowledge flowers in her mommy brain and every decision she makes for her child is absolutely the right, and only right decision.
So who are we to judge those moms that choose NOT to vaccinate THEIR kids?
Before you get your mom panties in a knot, hear me out…
5 Reasons To NOT Vaccinate Your Kids
1. You don’t like them, anyway.
I get it. Some kids are just born a little more awful than others. So if your plan is to not vaccinate your kid in hopes that they’ll catch some horrible virus that’ll off them so you can start over, sure. That makes total sense.
It’s evil, and disgusting, and I hope you get a million fire ant bites, but hey, the good news is that’s less likely to happen to you than your child catching something deadly because you’re an inherent dumb-dumb.
2. You’re more scared of big scientific sounding words than you are of viruses that have killed millions upon millions of people.
I get it! Vaccines have a lot of big, scary words. And, some of the ingredients in vaccines have been linked to carcinogenic risks and I bet even a very eensy teensy tiny portion of the population might be allergic to some of the ingredients and they might have a bad reaction.
Know what? That’s why the doctor keeps you at the office for 15 minutes after your child receives a vaccine. That way if they react, the doctor can fix it. Nifty set up, huh?
As for the scary words, know what other scientific word kills people? Dihydrogen monoxide. And yet you still put it into your body every single day. So put away your dictionary, and stop freaking out over words that you maybe don’t understand.
3. You believe all internet memes are true.
“Gandhi was against vaccines. A mother flipping meme told me so.” Yeah, I’ve seen that meme. And I’ve looked it up. And you know what he compared vaccines to? Eating beef.
Vaccines are as bad as eating beef because cows and all life is sacred. So here’s where that comes from: the small pox vaccine was derived from cows infected with cow pox. Which means that every person who received a small pox vaccine was being given a small amount of cow.
I can definitely understand why a man whose religion holds cows as sacred would be against being injected with one. But unless you, too, are a fruitarian (which he was), perhaps you should put down your Big Mac and go get your kids their freakin’ vaccines.
4. You’d rather your children build their immunity to things like polio and measles naturally…just like you did.
Oh, wait. You didn’t have polio did you. Know why? ‘CAUSE YOUR PARENTS GOT YOU VACCINATED!
5. You know more about vaccines from that one article you read online than your pediatrician knows after eight years of higher education and thousands of hours of study.
I’ll just let the people in this video address that one…
Look, I understand that I don’t live in your house, I’ve not experienced your life and I certainly can’t judge you for your parenting choices. But I’m going to anyway.
Not getting your children vaccinated is really stupid. Like, it’s really stupid.
It makes me furious and makes the blood in my veins boil with hatred toward you for putting your children in such a vulnerable and dangerous position. And if it just affected YOUR children, I might even be able to hold back my vitriol; but, it doesn’t.
Your infected child can infect a child who is too young to be vaccinated. Your child can infect a child who is fighting cancer, or whose immunity has been compromised by something else entirely out of their control.
YOUR child can act as a walking time bomb and spread illnesses that haven’t been around for years all because the idea of giving them a medically sound shot scares you.
Your child deserves better. Get your kids vaccinated. Don’t be that parent that we all hate.
Jamie’s Note: To those parents who can’t vaccinate because their child is immunocompromised, or allergic, etc. this obviously isn’t directed at you. In fact, you should be the most pissed off at the people who don’t vaccinate their perfectly healthy children– because that is how your children stay safe!
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Wow, way to do absolutely no research on this subject.
I love this. Thanks for being brave and posting something controversial.
Controversial?
If you “hate” parents that don’t vaccinate… Then you are a jerk. That’s no reason to “hate” a person.
Not vaccinating your kids isn’t like most political issues where the effects don’t, you know, kill or severely cripple human life. Hating people who do that is completely justified.
If you can vacuum a childs life from your womb what the “F” is the big deal with not getting vaccines. Hypocrites !!!
http://www.vaccines.gov/basics/protection/
You’re not very smart, are you..
I’m curious:
Mom One – You should support vaccines and have your children vaccinated because I lost my child to one of these dreadful diseases.
Mom Two – I’m not sure vaccines matter because my child had these dreadful diseases and made it out healthy and stronger.
Mom Three – I would never recommend anyone to vaccinate their children because I lost my child to vaccinations.
Why does one opinion trump the other? Why does one child’s death or cause of death become more important than another child’s? I don’t know the answer, My children have had some vaccinations, but when it came to Chicken Pox, I purposefully put my children in harms way to get it over with. Fortunately they didn’t die, and I chose this because I’ve never heard of a child dying from the Pox. Not to say that it hasn’t ever happened but I use statistics of, I’ve never met that family and I’m 45….so I’ve known a lot of families in school, daycare and so forth. The same for the Flu Shot.
So who determines who is right and who is wrong and why? If we have a bad situation happen to us, why do we blame everyone else? Not all children are born healthy…if my child were to die form a vaccination or to die because of not being vaccinated, I would assume that is how it was supposed to be. I see both sides of the coin but I do not agree with or understand why people need to bash the other side for not following the same beliefs.
There is scientific data to prove both points and both sides.
Pharmaceutical money decides how you will be brainwashed, as in this article of shamming, because we know good and well women cant stand to be last on the wagon of conformity.
I heard of a girl dying from complications of chicken pox, she got a real bad infection (in our language you call it a flesh-eating bacteria). i suppose it could have happened with any wound though. i didn’t give my 2 older ones the chicken pox one, hoping we’d run into someone that has it, that hasn’t happened so my oldest got the booster in first grade and my third got the regular one on schedule.
flu shot i dont bother with. also there was a polio scare and they re-introduced the live virus drops, i’m not letting my kids have those…
I support vaccinations. I don’t support this article though because anti-vax parents should voice their concerns. But they need facts not shame. Facts and science support vaccination. Mother intuition, while strong, should not be a reason to skip them though, and I think this was the point the author was trying to sarcastically make. Within these comments are some very skewed and wrong “facts” and statements by anti-vax parents. I’m not trying to be argumentative, but sometimes things are taken out of context (most of the time unknowingly) to support this movement. the real statistics, rates and epidemiological data prove that vaccination benefits overwhelmingly outweigh the risks.
I love this! I share it everytime i see it because i have one of the children that can’t be vaccinated due to allergies. So he depends on heard inoculation. I’ve been told once by an anti vaxer that i should just keep him home and inside. No the ones not vaccinated should have to stay home and inside so only person they could infect is the dumbass that didn’t want to vaccinate.
Talk show hosts know all. Bless Kimmel.
Satire. Thank God.
I was furious about this entire post until I got to the bottom. My daughters can’t be vaccinated due to one having such a low immune system and highly allergic to majority of the ingredients! She spent several nights at the hospital when an infant due to having a vaccine. So NO I do not vaccinate because I want what’s best for my daughters. When/If the time comes and she is able, I may consider it. But YOU don’t have a RIGHT to tell anyone what they should do anymore than the next person. You aren’t responsible for their children. I understand both sides, but knowing what we went through, I wouldn’t touch shots with a ten foot pole. And maybe that’s because of what we went through and knowing she had such a horrible reaction. Oh well, to each his own.
Robin,
You and your child are the exception, not the rule. You’re right, this article doesn’t address your situation at all! That being said, the parents who have kids NOT allergic to shots should get their kids vaccinated so that your child (and all children who can’t be vaccinated) are protected. No one is harmed by the “anti-vax” movement more than the children who for medical reasons can’t get vaccinated – they are the ones that need protection via herd immunity.
{My daughters can’t be vaccinated due to one having such a low immune system and highly allergic to majority of the ingredients! }
The article addressed this. People like you should be the most in favor of vaccinations – because your kids can’t get vaccines, their health is dependent on those who can get the vaccines actually getting them. Their safety comes from herd immunity, something that anti-vaxxers are in the midst of dismantling.
regarding Hillary emails and phone calls – unless you’re psychic, how can you know who is going to call you or email you before they do it? and YES – you would have to answer them.
also, what about all those Congressional Reps who get money from the NRA – that isn’t quid pro quo?? Does tRump’s followers know how hard it would be to get rid of the second amendment? we couldn’t even get the ERA passed!
The most foul and insultung article I have read in a long time. Completely igorant and utterly ridiculous. I pray for you.
Pray hard. Also ask God to help you spell the word ignorant. It’s kind of ironic that you would call someone ignorant when you cannot even spell the word properly.
*Whilst writing your comment did the ‘squiggle’ line not appear for your misspelled word?
Ouch!
Your last sentence tells it all. Religion stands in the way of eradicating deadly diseases. The Taliban has issued fatwas denouncing polio vaccination as a ploy to sterilize Muslims or an attempt to avert the will of Allah. Religious exceptions to the law are growing to the detriment of all. The American Taliban strikes again.
Hey Mary, I’m sure all the parents of children who died or were brain damaged by vaccines LOVE your article about how smart they were to vaccinate their kids. Vaccines are SOO safe that the vaccine manufacturers had to lobby Congress to pass a law giving them immunity from lawsuits from those who were damaged by their product. Any claims have to be made in a special “vaccine court” where the burden of proof is extremely high. Even with those odds, since 1989 over 3 billions dollars have been awarded to vaccine injured Americans. Also, spare me the “social responsibility” argument for vaccines since the vaccinated are the ones who carry the disease and risk infecting the unvaccinated, rather than the other way around. The responsibility of a parent is towards their own child. If your child is that 1 in a 1,000 that suffers a seizure after an MMR vaccine you have essentially caused a seizure in your child to “protect” another child. Your ignorant and snarky diatribe will not change anyone’s mind who already does not vaccinate.
See, this is an example of pure ignorance about vaccines, Andy. You don’t get infected from a vaccine–The person receiving the vaccine OR those around them. They are either dead or inactivated forms of the disease. Any response is the body building its immunity. Sometimes it causes unpleasant symptoms such as low grade fever or a sore arm (among other only annoying side effects). Sometimes, yes, people have an allergic reaction. Sometimes a reaction happens that simply cannot be explained. But correlation does not imply causation. I would rather risk my child being in that minuscule percentage of reacting than risking their life and everyone around them.Because I trust that a doctor would be able to handle that situation. It is this shortsighted and ignorant thinking that is endangering children everywhere. It sickens me that there are defenseless children put in harm’s way because they are too sick or too young to receive the vaccine but are exposed because some parent decided they knew best. Herd immunity is real, folks.
Meh, I guess I should also clarify that yes, some vaccines are live. But if they are live, they are extremely weakened. The point is you cannot catch something from someone who was vaccinated. That is simply false on all accounts. People do not “carry around the disease” from a vaccine…They carry around the ANTIBODIES to the disease.
by us they give drops with the live Rota virus, and we are warned to dispose carefully of the diapers for a month, because it might cause illness to someone with low immunity.
they also re-introduced the live polio vaccine, which i havent given to my kids.
You are wrong about people not being infected from those vaccinated. Some adults have actually been given polio from babies who shed the live virus in their feces. So before you’re so quick to condemn do a little research.
{Hey Mary, I’m sure all the parents of children who died or were brain damaged by vaccines LOVE your article about how smart they were to vaccinate their kids }
You’d rather have stuff like smallpox and polio have never been eradicated? Not even a consideration of all the parents of children who died to those?
I’m not sure the tone used here will encourage anyone to have an informed discussion on this topic. This is a good example of the mindless drivel too common on both sides of this debate.
It’s human nature to make fun of other people, I guess, and to high five the people who are like-minded. It takes some intelligence (and faith that science really does support your view) to actually get into the nuts and bolts of this topic.
That was my exact thought. This kind of vitriol actually sort of shows a lack of knowledge on the subject. I’ve seen it time and time again with people in the force-vaccines camp. All up in arms yet can’t discuss even one aspect of the science. They don’t fully understand herd immunity yet throw the term around. They don’t understand the difference between a body reacting to an injected pathogen and an oral or transdermal pathogen. They don’t even understand basic statistics. Yes, it’s maddening when so many fight for vaccines make SO MUCH noise but have ZERO knowledge of the science. Zero!
I’ll explain herd immunity to you. If a certain percentage of the population in a given area is vaccinated against a certain illness, than those that can’t receive the vaccine for medical reasons benefit as they will be protected since those around them won’t contract the illness. Let’s take Washington state for example. There are areas with under 70% vaccination rates. They are now dealing with outbreaks of the measles because enough of the population isn’t vaccinated to prevent it and prevent the spread of it That means that someone like me with a screwed up immune system would be in grave danger in those areas.
Anti-vaccers also like to scream “but that child was vaccinated and still got the measles!” That’s because vaccines are not 100%. A small portion of the population that is vaccinated can still get the illness. The great thing is though, since their body already has antibodies, the body is able to fight it off so they don’t get as sick as someone not vaccinated. In other words, their risk of hospitalization or death is much smaller than someone that didn’t get vaccinated.
For the “it’s my child so it’s my choice” crowd I have this to say. Yes it’s your child, but you shouldn’t get to play Russian Roulette with my life and others like me. Areas like those in Washington state are perfect examples of why vaccinations are so important. Everyone who got Polio didn’t die, but many were scared for life with debilitating deformities. Why would you risk your child suffering in sever pain for the rest of their life if you can prevent it?
Liz- you’ll find most pro vax articles do NOT talk about the science. Plenty of accusations about nonvaxers being anti-science, but no actual scientific information presented. They will not talk about how vaccine safety studies do not employ a true “control” nor how the effects of multiple shots at once have not been studied. American children are guinea pigs. Why is Japan pushing shots out until age two? Likely because when they pushed them out to age one, the mortality and autism rates plummeted. I very much hope parents continue to do their own research and not rely on bullying, uninformed articles like this one. It’s a hard job to stand up to a bullying crowd – but it’s what loving parents do for their children.
The thing is though, logic and reasoning is lost on a majority of the anti-vax crowd – providing a factual counter-point to their argument actually causes them to dig their heels in more (there have been studies done about this).
So, in light of the fact that nothing is actually going to change the majority of dumb, simple minds who think vaccines are bad…I’m all for using humour and sarcasm to call them out on it.
Another reason for vaccinating is because some people who have been vaccinated for some reason the vaccine doesn’t take. I know of someone who has had the MMR vaccine multiple times and still has no immunity. She had to be extra careful during her pregnancies to protect her babies.
Protect then from what while pregnant? I don’t understand.
If you do not trust your doctor, which you should, listen to medical research scientist. Get your kid vaccinated. Period. For feck sake.
And Mary is either of these things? Or you?
Oh, I forgot having an MD behind your name makes you God, correct. Thank God my pediatrician isn’t pushy and doesn’t force me to vaccinate. He trusts me to do my research and as a card carrying member of Mensa, I assure you I am no idiot. If a parent wants to vaccinate, great! If they don’t, great. I’m not going to judge someone who has actually does their research and feels they are doing the best for their kid. Unless I’m in the ER unconscious, facing a life-threat emergency, I never do something “just because my doctor says so” without researching first and making informed decision!
{ I’m not going to judge someone who has actually does their research and feels they are doing the best for their kid. }
And what they feel doesn’t change that they are objectively not doing the best for millions of others. Risking other people’s lives for a “feeling” that doesn’t reflect statistical or scientific reality.
100% of people who drink dihydrogen monoxide die.
Some people die from ingesting too much dihydrogen monoxide.
Thousands upon thousands of people die every year in dihydrogen monoxide related accidents.
Keep your children safe, keep them away from dihydrogen monoxide.
The first paragraph is the biggest load of crap ive ever read. Parents call the er all the time because of fever and at all hours of the night. How do i know? Because I have worked in an ER. Parents often find situations where they absolutely do not know what to do. this author is absolute shit.
Someone blatantly missed the sarcasm and entire purpose of this satirical article…
So. Sarcasm goes way over your head I see
For anti vaxers who say “the mortality rates were dropping before the vaccine” that is because the iron lung was invented. Kids still got it, but they had to be on ventilators.
Another thing- Most Amish are vaccinated, yet they have a 1 in 15,000 chance of autism. General population is 1 in 166 depending on the study. Hint- its not the vaccine.
Association is NOT causation. But the average person is sooooooo scientifically illiterate that people like us must make these statements again and again….
When I was a kid the neighbor up the road came down with polio. He was just married a couple of years and he ended up in an iron-lung for a few years. Eventually he came out of that but was quadriplegic,he went back to work with help from his wife and kids repair cars. He told them what to do and they did it.
Forgot to mention he fathered a couple of kids as well, wife said his “love muscle” works just fine!
I can see the google-educated doctors came out in full force to comment on this. They want to post links to “educate” you. I can just imagine the sites the links will go to. Just like my friend who said he had “much to teach me” about how O negative blood is from aliens. That’s all over the internet too. Probably the same sites.
Hahahaha good one…I got the measles when I was a month and a half old before I could have my vaccination…it was a lite case lucky for me the doc said…not lucky when in 7th grade I got them again…7 weeks most of them with Temps of 105 in a blacked out room so I would not go blind, I was in absolute hell ..my 20/20 vision was gone & bottle thick glasses took its place, drs not sure if I would ever have kids. .it was rough, took years but luckily have two…all because someone did not vax their kid and doc thought since I had them I didn’t need the shot…people need to pull their heads out…there is nothing more awful then watching your child die right in front of you from something YOU could have prevented, or someone else, as in my mom’s case with me, could have prevented….I got lucky but many don’t. That being said I absolutely love, love this article…she nailed it! So did your comment..
Funny thing is you didnt get the measles from the unvaccinated child they actually dont carry measles. It was a vaccinated child that probably shed on you causing the measles. Just as the case in California was you dont contract it from someone that has never had that live virus in them to begin with.
NO.
How bout VAERs.gov, genius?
Unfortunately there isn’t a vaccine to fix STUPID.
The writer is an uneducated and ignorant fool.
And here’s hoping your children die of smallpox, diptheria, or polio.
Then, after the funeral service(s), you can congratulate yourself on being “educated” better than any medical professional.
No need for wishing that on any parent. Still, I am pretty certain that is how Darwin works. But still..not at all nice.
Unfortunately there isn’t a vaccine to fix STUPID.
The writer is an educated and ignorant fool.
This is the most ignorant dangerous piece of writing I have read in a while. The funny thing is you’re too … fill in the word yourself… to even know what a fool you’ve made of yourself publishing this. I thought to post some links to educate you but then realized you’re probably brain damaged and can’t read – otherwise you’d have done your research properly and as a result you would then not have written this rubbish.
That is very insulting, shame on you! One track minded and not open to healthy debate?
your kid’s immune system is so compromised they’ll “nearly die if they get the flu” ? I’m not going to get a flu shot to keep your kid alive. natural selection. if they’re not healthy enough to fight it off then it is what it is. too many “miracle babies” and old ass people clinging on to life for too long. let people die, get over it.
“Natural Selection”
So you’re willing to risk other’s lives simply because of your selfish wants? You’re worse than your supposed valuing of vaccines.
You deserve the worst, slowest, most painful old preventable disease that we vaccinate for. But, i believe you’ll get payback for such a statement.
As a parent of a 4 month old who had a reaction after having 7 different viruses and deadly chemicals injected into her body, I am appalled by this display of ignorance. It is sad that people feel the need to shame others when they have no education on the matter. Vaccines can hurt our precious children, and you can only learn firsthand AFTER it happens to your child. There are many options such as delaying or separating the vaccines to receive fewer at a time. I urge ALL parents to educate themselves BEFORE injecting their child with anything and be strong enough to understand that people who shame others are acting in ignorance. Unfortunately it is now part of our culture to shame parents for the choices they make for THEIR OWN children. Parents trust your instincts. Whether you choose to vaccinate according to your pediatrician’s guidelines, on modified schedule, or not at all remember that it is your choice.
the viruses were dead.
MMR is a live vaccine. So is Rotavirus.
Where did you get your “education” on the issue.