michellegb
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Location: New England and loving it!
Jun 26, 2014 0:04:59 GMT
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Post by michellegb on Jun 17, 2021 9:03:27 GMT
I knew someone in school who had had it and was in leg braces. It was sad to see what it did to her body.
The anti-vaxxers infuriate me. Taking risks like that with your children is just wrong. My hairdresser is one who believes that they just give too many doses too fast for little babies to handle and that maybe they don't need all of them. She is at least getting her son the shots but spread WAY out over years because she wants him in school. When she tried to convince me one day, I simply asked her if SHE was vaccinated? Is her husband vaccinated? Are they fine? Do they know anyone who is vaccinated who had a problem with it? It's insane logic to me since most of them have been vaccinated with the very medicine they are denying their children.
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maryannscraps
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Aug 28, 2017 12:51:28 GMT
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Post by maryannscraps on Jun 17, 2021 12:08:01 GMT
Another thing with TB yes it kills a lot worldwide but not in the US so that’s why we don’t talk about it much. 1.6 million deaths worldwide but only about 600 in the US. I had to have a test when I was either a volunteer at school or when I took mommy and me classes. Maybe both. I wish I had known about the show I would have liked to have seen it and don’t have their streaming service. Also, the CDC considers multi-drug resistant TB to be a serious threat. We're running out of antibiotics that will even fight it, and the few that are left have serious side effects, like hearing loss.
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lizacreates
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Post by lizacreates on Jun 17, 2021 14:15:02 GMT
I'm a '50s child and I don't recall parents or anyone else for that matter being anti-vax during those days. What I recall is that when a school or doctor said such and such is needed, everyone obeyed. I'm trying to remember, but when did this anti-vax thing really hit its stride? 2000 or later... basically when the babies born in the 1980-90s became parents. They have been the second generation to not experience the death and life altering disabilities from viruses. Children born in the 1960s had the examples of older people (grandparents and parents) who had been left with disabilities. So we had some real life examples of what it was so important to have our kids vaccinated. But our children came into a world where the US was not experiencing large outbreaks of viruses that had terrified generations of parents before them. So when they became parents all that felt like a hoax or not possible. They felt safe to not vaccinate their kids because those diseases weren't widely circulating in the US. That makes a lot of sense. Now that I’m really thinking about it, it may have been around that time when I began seeing articles about it. Thank you for your explanation.
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Post by maryland on Jun 17, 2021 16:58:30 GMT
Um... No people who had TB were put away in TB Sanitariums, some forever, some until cured. There was also quarantine for several diseases. And they hung a sign on your front door for all to see. They did it when I had scarlet fever, my grandma was not happy. There is an abandoned hospital a few miles from my parents that was used as a TB sanatorium years ago.
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rodeomom
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Refupee # 380 "I don't have to run fast, I just have to run faster than you."
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Location: Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma
Jun 25, 2014 23:34:38 GMT
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Post by rodeomom on Jun 17, 2021 18:14:04 GMT
My mother had polio as a 18 month old baby. She was paralyzed and lost hearing in one ear. I don't remember how long it took her to walk again. She never recovered her hearing in that ear.
She said that it seemed like every family in her rural community had one child who was effectived by polio. My Mom's best friend had one arm that was smaller than the other.
One day we will have a virus as bad as polio. I wonder how we will react.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Jun 17, 2021 20:29:06 GMT
My mother had polio as a 18 month old baby. She was paralyzed and lost hearing in one ear. I don't remember how long it took her to walk again. She never recovered her hearing in that ear. She said that it seemed like every family in her rural community had one child who was effectived by polio. My Mom's best friend had one arm that was smaller than the other. One day we will have a virus as bad as polio. I wonder how we will react. There will still be way too many that think it’s fake and not real unless it effects them.
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maryannscraps
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Post by maryannscraps on Jun 17, 2021 22:16:48 GMT
I had an acquaintance back in the 80s who had damage to one arm from polio as a child. He was in his early 20s, and lived in Nigeria as a child. By that time, polio had been eradicated from the US for many years.
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Post by Linda on Jun 18, 2021 2:16:32 GMT
there was a lady at my church when we first came to the States (so early 80s) who was in an iron lung due to polio.
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camcas
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Jun 26, 2014 3:41:19 GMT
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Post by camcas on Jun 18, 2021 10:26:10 GMT
I used to be the home nurse for a woman with an iron lung due to polio. At work we discuss how polio will be back in the US because of the anti-vaxxers. Coincidentally the idiots in my state have introduced a bill to ban any business or school from requiring vaccines. 🤦♀️ Exactly
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Post by Bridget in MD on Jun 18, 2021 18:30:44 GMT
I watched this documentary today, wow. it was like watching a retrospective on COVID. I am shocked at how soon we all forgot how far we've come!
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