After reading “Back-to-School immunizations available at Public Health Clinic,” (Herald, Aug. 10), I had to respond. I counted 21 different vaccines – some are three in one shot – to get/stay in school. Is that really the “Best Health Decision?”
I had vaccines as a child. I had three and one booster. Now the vaccine schedule is 72 doses of 18 different vaccines before 18 years. They just added two more. Does anyone else think that is over-the-top, especially with chronic disease in children now over 60%? Is there a direct connection? Nobody knows for sure.
Doctors used to understand that getting childhood diseases actually built our immune systems. My parents would say, “Johnny next door has chickenpox. You are going to play with him today and get it over with.” We would do the same with measles and mumps, and our immunity just got better. It was the way things were done.
Now we are afraid of childhood diseases, especially measles. But the fact is that getting one dose of MMR vaccine doesn’t keep kids from getting measles, and the shot includes aluminum. Yes, two children of very ill health died, with measles, not from measles. They died from very bad health. We have abandoned “common sense” for “makes no sense.”
Sometimes we need to look to the past to understand how things work. Research done by drug companies about vaccines or drugs is not real research unless it is independently verified. This is really promotional research.
James Forleo
Durango
