"My heart says something else".

From 1995 to 1999, said Ms. Packard, the school nurse, an epidemic here of whooping cough, which can be fatal in infants, hospitalized some infants and left some children with chronic asthma. Ms. Forest's grandson Deven had whooping cough two years ago and, she conceded, probably passed the disease to 10 other children, including an infant.


"Yeah, that bothered me," Ms. Forest said. "But I called everybody and we studied up on what you can do to build up the immune system."

sozobe wrote:

Right, there are areas where it's actually becoming an issue again because of a concentration of anti-vaccination idiots. There was one in the Pacific Northwest somewhere I think, can look it up, don't remember details right now.

I don't understand how this happens in the normal society groups in the US. Schools require children to be vaccinated in order to prevent this from happening. So unless there are a good amount of home schooled kids in one area, it would be difficult for this to occur. That is understandable in the Amish community - I wonder if it is a similar group in the Northwest or perhaps it is a community where home schooling is the vogue.

"Yeah, that bothered me," Ms. Forest said. "But I called everybody and we studied up on what you can do to build up the immune system."

Linkat wrote:

sozobe wrote:

Right, there are areas where it's actually becoming an issue again because of a concentration of anti-vaccination idiots. There was one in the Pacific Northwest somewhere I think, can look it up, don't remember details right now.

I don't understand how this happens in the normal society groups in the US. Schools require children to be vaccinated in order to prevent this from happening. So unless there are a good amount of home schooled kids in one area, it would be difficult for this to occur. That is understandable in the Amish community - I wonder if it is a similar group in the Northwest or perhaps it is a community where home schooling is the vogue.

Is there some sane reason why girls need to be vaccinated against the virus, if they're not going to be engaged in any form of sexual activity? Do they need this vaccine in order to study Latin, History, Algebra or Chemistry?