02-13-2025, 10:26 PM
DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Yep, too bad the kids are paying for their parents’ mistakes. I bet the parents were vaccinated.
Wouldn’t bet on that. Some of those parents’ parents likely HAD the measles (and mumps, and chickenpox) before vaccines (1950s & 60s), and considered them all just rights of childhood passage; no need for vaccination of their own kids.
Possibly. In fact I got most of those diseases before the vaccines were available. But I would never consider them "rights of childhood passage" and a reason to not vaccinate. The other side of the childhood diseases was present within my direct family. My father had an older brother, I never got to know that uncle as he died from one. of those childhood diseases before I was ever born. In my case I was named for him and my grandfather, my younger brother's first name was the same as my father's.