Before I start, as of this posting, 36 children have died because of you whiny spoiled brats that I will be calling Antimoms from now on. So...this has just got to stop, this BP bashing, and here is why.
Most of the folks demonizing BP are under 30. Why does that matter, you may ask? It matters because of memories you don't have if you fit that demographic.
If you were born in the 1950s or even earlier, you have vivid memories of the time when things like polio ran wild, with no cure or even something to ease it, nothing. Measles, Rubella, Chicken Pox, Whopping Cough, and Mumps ALL ran wild.It was a rite of passage to get and survive them. We would get more days off for them than we did for snow. To us kids, days off from school was a cool thing, if one of us came down with symptoms, everyone else would do their best to rub up on them to catch it, too. To our mom, however, not so cool. These were not namby pamby diseases. You COULD actually die from them. Most of us didn't, but now many of us live with the threat of Shingles from having had the Chicken Pox. Thank God the nasty old BP came up with a one time only vaccine against this horribly painful rash. If you were unlucky enough to contract Tuberculosis, that meant you were moving to either New Mexico or Arizona to live out the rest of your limited life, because those were the only places dry enough for you to survive. The only thing back then that was less deadly, for the most part, was the flu.That is only because world travel was not so frequent then, bringing back more and more exotic versions. It wasn't fun getting it, because there was no vaccine, so if you got it, it was usually a solid 2 weeks in bed, but it wasn't so varied, at least. There were no real meds for any of these things beyond calamine lotion, aspirin, cough medicine and chicken soup. Suffering abounded.
Now before I defend, after a fashion, BP, let me say that I don't think they are in the least altruistic, particularly humanitarian, or even nice to their mothers, okay?
They are in it for the money, of course. Also, I am among those who feel they are withholding cancer solutions of various sorts, possibly until they can figure out the most profitable way too release them, but it's just a theory born from the frustration of watching loved ones die from this insidious disease.
But here's the thing, because of them, those diseases of my childhood were all but eradicated from the planet. The big bad BP made it possible to avoid all of them with a quick, simple vaccine. In fact, in the case of one vaccine, you get 3 in 1, with tetanus thrown in.
Now I get that you want to live clean, the latest swami's are telling you about all the poisons in the world, and there are plenty, and how to avoid them...for a fee, of course. It's great to eliminate the dyes and scents from your toilet paper and laundry soap; avoid unnecessary chemicals in processed food; use all natural cleaning products and make-up. All these things are great, but at some point, some paranoid idiot decided to take a nostalgic walk back to the middle ages, which, if this anti-immunization movement keeps going, we will most surely be.
Think I'm being dramatic? It took one sick woman to wipe out a substantial amount of the total population of Europe. You know the charming kids song, Ring around the Rosie? It's about death and the Black Plague. There is now an outbreak of Measles and the flu in the Dallas/Ft.Worth metroplex.
BP is not up for sainthood, for sure. But you need to do some actual research into the not too distant past and find out just how much you DON'T suffer from today because of them. THEN do some actual, reliable research about the fact that vaccines are pretty much harmless.You just do not really grasp how perilous life was before these vaccines, just like you cannot seem to comprehend a world without computers. Well, it existed, Antimom. There is a saying that everything that ever was will eventually cycle back around again, like bell-bottom jeans and turtle necks. Well, thanks to your unreasonable paranoia, the time when we truly feared some terrible diseases is making a serious comeback.
Just sayin'
Dragonfly Davis
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