My wife declined the chicken pox vaccine for one of our children. After the nurse was done my wife looked on the slip and asked why it said that our son got the chicken pox vaccine when she just declined it? The nurse said, "Yeah, I know, but I just thought it would be better if he had it." That's forced to me.RZehr wrote:I wouldn't call it fishy at all. I'd assume someone high up put thought and discussion into whether society should or shouldn't be recommended this vaccine, and they decided society should. I don't believe the people on the ground administering the vaccine puts much thought into the rightness or wrongness of it. They probably are just there to do their job the best they can with the information and recommendations they are given, without giving much consideration to individual cases.Wade wrote: So would you call giving a 2 year old a vaccine for Hepatitis B which can only be contracted through sex and dirty needles(drug use) when the vaccine looses it's effectiveness after 10 years not fishy?
If I followed your logic then I would do right to stay way clear of vaccines.
I am very pro-vaccine, yet I too refuse to give my children Hepatitis B. I see how it may be a good idea for some people but not for how we live and believe, so I think it is unnecessary. At the same time, if it were forced upon me, I'd have more concern about being forced, than the shot itself. I don't think I would have major health concerns about it.
I didn’t get a yellow fever vaccination either until I wanted to visit a country where it was a requirement to have it.
And remember it is illegal in Canada for them to tell you the ingredients. Even the Public health nurse had a problem with that. And yes, JM I have researched all the ingredients thoroughly in the past.
Maybe we have just experienced some things that are not normal for others? But it is almost every time we go to the doctor we could tell a story...
Another point of reference I would like to share: I often have people that know me a bit often willingly share very confident information - like their depression, alcoholism, drug use, whatever. Some of these people are being very mislead that doctors and drugs will be their savior. They know where I stand and I will share Christ but yet they keep talking... The last time one of my friends got off the booze with conventional drugs he was okay for a bit but since he is back on I really think he needs to come out with the power of Christ to truly make it. I think conventional medicine is helping for him to stay alive at times but it has never given him life.