Phil Mixter, the Moscow-Pullman Daily News had this editorial today... Our View: Too bad theres no vaccine for this Lee Rozen, for the editorial board | Posted: Thursday, July 3, 2014 1:00 am Questioning authority is always a good thing. Only Mom can make because I said so stick for long. But in politics, medicine and auto repair, you should make sure authority knows what it is talking about, that it has facts and experience to back up its pronouncements. Ask if it can show how its way of doing things works, how it has saved lives and how it has been effective for years. In politics, this is rare. Not much less so in car repair. And as for those TV ads for medicines you should ask your doctor about - even though most of the ad is taken up with awful side effects, well, we have our doubts. But if the authority can back up its claims, well, admit it and get with the program. Thats our feeling about vaccination deniers. Weve said it before, and well say it again - getting vaccinated has protected our community for decades. Not getting vaccinations for your kids not only endangers them but all the rest of us. It makes your unvaccinated children a menace to society - and were not talking a comics page Dennis the Menace. If everyone is vaccinated, or almost everyone, then diseases such as measles, whooping cough, polio and many more have a much tougher time getting a foothold in society. There are fewer people from whom those with weakened immune systems - the very old, the very young, those on chemotherapy - have a chance of getting the disease. Some of these viruses have developed tactics to survive. They are contagious days before those carrying them have any symptoms. The victim is creating more victims before they even know they are sick. But if nearly everyone is vaccinated, the virus finds it much more difficult to find a host. Statistics from Washington indicate that not only are a significant percent of the states kindergarteners not being immunized, but the percent is going up, not down. That means a significant percent of parents have been bamboozled by the reasonable sounding but utterly baseless tracts clogging the Internet and frightening them with all the horrible things that vaccination may cause in a tiny percent of cases. Instead, they should be worrying about what not getting vaccinations will cause in a large percent of cases.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 04:49:27 +0000
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