Post : Is It Reasonable to Want Your Kids to Get a Vaccine-Preventable Disease?
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Posted : April 26, 2024 at 8:11 am
Author : Vincent Iannelli, MD
Tags : #readtheinsert, Bob Sears Snare, Candace Owens, chicken pox deaths, congenital rubella syndrome, diphtheria deaths, free-riders, hiding in the herd, last measles death, meningococcal outbreaks, neonatal tetanus, package inserts, Roald Dahl, tetanus myths
Categories : Anti-Vaccine Propaganda

Candace Owens believes that a reasonable parent would prefer that their kids get a vaccine-preventable disease instead of a vaccine.

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Anti-vaccine influencers ( [link removed] ) have built an industry of their own, making money ( [link removed] ) pushing misinformation that scares parents ( [link removed] ) and leaves kids at risk to get sick.

Do you agree?

Is It Reasonable to Want Your Kids to Get a Vaccine-Preventable Disease?

To be fair, I'm guessing Candace Owens and other parents ( [link removed] ) don't actually want their kids to get sick with these diseases, especially if they really understood a vaccine insert ( [link removed] ) .

[link removed] A doctor with the UK's Emergency Medical Team checks a child for symptoms of diphtheria ( [link removed] ) in a makeshift clinic in the Kutupalong camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Photo Russell Watkins ( [link removed] ) /Department for International Development CC BY 2.0 Deed

No one who has actually seen ( [link removed] ) or taken care of a child with diphtheria, measles, pertussis, tetanus, meningococcemia or any other vaccine-preventable disease ( [link removed] ) would wish that kind of suffering ( [link removed] ) on their own kids!

[link removed] Even if they survive, kids can lose fingers, toes, or even arms and legs to meningococcemia ( [link removed] ) . Is it reasonable to want your child to get meningococcemia?

Would they?

A baby with a congenital cataract and blueberry muffin rash - classic signs of congenital rubella syndrome ( [link removed] ) . (CC BY-NC-SA)

To be sure, they also certainly don't want to vaccinate and protect them either.

[link removed] This is a previously healthy 12 month old with a chicken pox ( [link removed] ) infection complicated by a secondary Staphylococcus aureus infection leading to gangrene and sepsis. Remember this pic the next time someone invites you to a chicken pox party ( [link removed] ) !

Can they have it both ways?

An unvaccinated child ( [link removed] ) can get tetanus after a simple toe nail injury. Is it reasonable to want your child to get tetanus?

They can, like Candace Owens, try to hide in the herd ( [link removed] ) , free-riding ( [link removed] ) and relying on the protection of everyone who is vaccinated around them, but that gamble falls apart as too many people skip or delay their vaccines.

[link removed] This was the only thing Bob Sears ( [link removed] ) got right in his book!

And it's a gamble that is not worth taking, especially since vaccines truly are safe ( [link removed] ) , with few risks ( [link removed] ) , and they are effective ( [link removed] ) and very necessary ( [link removed] ) .

Roald Dahl ( [link removed] ) 's daughter died of measles ( [link removed] ) in 1962, the year before the development of the first measles vaccine ( [link removed] ) .

So why do some parents go this route, leaving their intentionally unvaccinated kids ( [link removed] ) at risk to get sick?

They are making this decision based on the principle of misinformed consent ( [link removed] ) .

They are influenced ( [link removed] ) by bad information ( [link removed] ) , including propaganda ( [link removed] ) that overstates the side effects of vaccines, downplays the risks of vaccine preventable diseases, and makes you think vaccines don't even work and aren't necessary.

Don't regret skipping or delaying your child's vaccines because you listened to some bad advice ( [link removed] ) from an anti-vaccine influencer.

More on Being a Reasonable Parent

* Is It Rational to Be Anti-Vaccine? ( [link removed] )

* Parents Who Regret Not Vaccinating Their Kids ( [link removed] )

* The Fatal Flaw in the Anti-Vaccine Movement ( [link removed] )

* Ask 8 Questions Before You Skip a Vaccine ( [link removed] )

* What Are the Greatest Tricks Anti-Vaccine Folks Use to Persuade Parents to Skip Vaccines? ( [link removed] )

* Which Part of the Herd Gets Protected by Community Immunity? ( [link removed] )

* The Moral Responsibility of the Anti-Vaccine Movement ( [link removed] )

* Management of Varicella Gangrenosa: A Life-Threatening Condition from Chickenpox ( [link removed] )

* Vaccines don’t cause childhood cancer, contrary to claim by Candace Owens ( [link removed] )

* SADS is caused by genetic mutations affecting the electrical system regulating heartbeat; no evidence it is caused by COVID-19 vaccines ( [link removed] )

* Childhood vaccines are an important protection against preventable diseases, not “poison” as claimed by Candace Owens ( [link removed] )

* The Nuremberg Code specifically addresses experimentation; COVID-19 vaccines aren’t experimental, and therefore, don’t violate the Code ( [link removed] )

* Viral Video Repeats Bogus Claim About Vaccines and Visible Ailments ( [link removed] )

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