ejchristian86

Yes. Barring a documented medical issue (allergy, immune issues, etc) I believe vaccination should be mandatory. Normally I don't advocate for government involvement on such a personal issue, but as we're seeing more and more, vaccination is not just about the individual; it's about the entire community.

Well, I coughed up blood for 3 or 4 months, so that was awful. And for a few years after I got sick, every time I laughed too hard I would start coughing until I threw up (my siblings got a kick out of that one). These days I still get a lot of phlegm in my lungs, and I find it hard to breathe on cold days and get winded easily. I consider myself lucky, though. I lived.

"But at least he's not dead of the measles!"

And then I'd go into my whole long spiel about the ingredients in a vaccine and how not one of them has the least bit to do with the causes of autism. And how the vaccine schedule has been repeatedly proven to not be too taxing on a child's immune system. How the rise in the number of kids with autism has nothing to do with vaccines but rather to an increase in awareness of the disorder and a broadening of the criteria by which a person can be placed on the spectrum. How not one case of autism has ever been linked to a vaccine, and how the doctor who published the initial paper indicating a link has been so thoroughly discredited he probably can't get a job at McDonald's (which, incidentally, is where I picked up whooping cough to begin with).

They did it with shit like polio and smallpox and it worked. My parents still tell the stories of when flocks of nurses descended on their schools to give everyone the smallpox vaccine. Of course, their parents wouldn't have stood for any anti-vaccination bullshit.

Glad I'm not the only one. I'm also picturing him holding that weirdo crystal communicator thing from QL.