Good to See Common Sense as teenagers fight anti-vaccine movement
Seems sensibility and common sense is actually out there as teenagers fight against their anti-vaxxer parents(most of whom are probably vaccinated by the way.) They are taking to Reddit and other social media to ask others for help on how to get proper vaccinations.
It's sad that a young man can figure out that it's the right thing to do. How many needless cases of measles are needed to open the eyes of others.
'I was doing it for my safety and the safety of others'
Ethan Lindenberger grew up in a home where his mother was very open about her opposition to vaccines.
"As I became a teenager and looked into it and decided that the evidence supported vaccines by and large, and that the evidence that they cause autism and brain damage and other misinformed statements weren't true,"
He's very well spoken and presents his arguments well. Watch his interview.
Advice to other teenagers, unfortunately, wait until you are 18? Hopefully none of the kids that have to wait will contract a preventable disease or infect someone who happens to be immunodeficient.
Key Points:
- The science is there in support of vaccination. It's readily available - Healthy Children.org.
- Vaccines do not cause Autism - https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-causes-autism
- Question your sources of information
- Get vaccinated and vaccinate your children.
Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/12/health/teen-vaccines-parenting/index.html
images: pixabay
Sad to see people on Steemit spewing mainstream media rhetoric like this. Smh
OK, so if I had interviewed him and loaded it to dTube it would be less disputable more palatable? This was all over Reddit. Posting something like this that is based in fact is a lot better than the unverifiable, rehashed, pseudoscience based utter nonsense that I see posted regularly on vaccines. Rhetoric is not fact, and this is, indeed factual.
FACT: Ethan is an 18 year old; FACT: He took responsibility and got vaccinated; FACT: He's speaking out about the misinformation and educating others; FACT: He's OK after having the vaccine.
There are currently of over 100 cases of measles across 21 states. The EU is reporting around 10,000 cases and it's only mid-Feb. In 2018 the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported 24,000 cases and 505 deaths - 505 dead!
Most of those deaths; children under the age of 5.
Is IFLS too main stream? It's hard to tell as main stream seems to be a moving target ;-) Have a read of this article:
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/measles-cases-doubled-globally-last-year-who-announces/
It's your choice to not vaccinate but consider the potential consequences - 136,000 deaths around the world...
Ref:
https://www.contagionlive.com/outbreak-monitor?z=no&type=ter&category=DRC+Measles+Outbreak
Not all vaccines use aluminum hydroxide if you had a vaccination schedule that included, non-aluminum hydroxide adjuvants would you get them?
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No I would not, I think that the real reason most diseases that vaccines have claimed be effective against are not a problem anymore is because of Hygiene and Nutrition. So in short I think vaccines are neither effective or safe.
Interesting, ok, sure in some cases like diptheria or typhoid or other filth diseases. Let's take measles. Mainly air bourne not, related to hygene or nutrition. The introduction of the measles vaccine saw a marked decrease in cases within the US to the extent that it was almost declared eradicated until around 2014. We saw cases sky rocket with the movement of many parents not choosing to vaccinate against measles. Given that do you feel that shows there might be a correlation to the effectiveness of the measles vaccine?
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Proper nutrition specifically vitamin A in the case of measles renders it a harmless childhood ailment.
This one program supplemented children's vitamin A, by your same reasoning could this not be the reason this disease became a non-issue? Pregnant women who have sufficient vitamin A do not suffer birth defects from measles. The place where people are suffering from measles, Africa, is coincidently a place with rampant malnutrition.
This is incorrect most if not all measles outbreaks are caused by foreign visitors, why do they never tell you whether victims of measles outbreaks are vaccinated or not? Shouldn't that garbage you pump into your arm protect you?
Check out recent measles cases in Germany if you can find anything about it in English. (I'm not taking the time now to look for it myself.)
You probably know better than I do about when anti-vaccination movement started to get bigger. I suspect a time frame of 8 to 10 years. Foreigners started to (or rather: got started to) migrate to Germany long before, slightly more than a hundred years ago. Tuberculosis largely spread due to both world war actions in Europe. Those were no "foreigners".
Tuberculosis comes from cows, just like small pox. I'm not an "Anti-Vaxxer" simply a careful consumer of what doctors are selling.
Anyone who took the time to study the history of medicine would do the same. Doctors have been wrong before and they will be wrong again.
Doctors considered Thalidomide perfectly safe for pregnant women...
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