I'm interested to see what the legalities of these "bans" will end up being. It's interesting for sure.
On I'm so sad to hear of your daughter's passing. I'm really not trying to be condescending.
There is no way that children have a 1 in 7 chance of dying from a brain tumor. That's not remotely feasible.
I believe nightowl is saying that the 1 in 7 statistic is for HER daughter specifically. That HER daughter is currently fighting brain cancer and those are the odds she was given by her medical team.
She isn't claiming that is for all children. She's simply saying that when she compares 1 in 7, to the odds involved in dying from the measles... the measles odds don't look so bad.
Not trying to speak for you nightowl, just trying to help clarify. I understand how it is to be on the 2% end of the statistics instead of the 98%. For me even the astronomical odds just don't comfort me. I've just heard "well, this is the first time I've seen this in 30 years" WAY too many times. We've had 3 GBM cases in my immediate family in ten years and also an infant with skin cancer. We definitely tend to stay in the "rare" category.
Well, I would assume your child is vaccinated, as are mine. So I don’t live in fear that my child is going to die from measles. Because they’re vaccinated and all.
However, as you surely know not everyone can be vaccinated. They aren't going to give vaccines to someone undergoing chemo for example. Or to someone with other immune system issues.
My oldest daughter in fact got the chicken pox vaccine (against my wishes, I was SHAMED into it) then got the chicken pox FROM the vaccine and STILL had no blood immunity! Had they done the immune system blood work before they would have known I was correct to be concerned.
what about babies under a year? My 7 month old cannot have the vaccine yet and I’m absolutely terrified of her getting measles after recent outbreaks where we live. The vaccines are also meant to protect those who cannot have them.
Absolutely. The babies do worry me. When my youngest was 7 months old he got a high fever and then a rash. We were living out of state at the time so I took him to a "new" Pediatrician. It was awful.
He walked in and said "That looks like measles. Why isn't this child vaccinated for measles! That is so irresponsible!" He went on and on and on. When I responded that he was 7 MONTHS OLD he said "yes but since you moved from out of state you should have had him vaccinated against it now and then do it again later."
It was absurd. With my kids history of vaccine issues the last thing I would do is give one EARLIER than advised. Our medical team has us space them out and do one at a time and no "live" vaccines. My kid actually had roseola or sixths disease. That was what I had suspected but I did not expect the lecture I got.