Natural food better than vaccinations?

On a different tack, I work as a medical transcriptionist and the health care system I work for is requiring ALL employees to get the flu shot this year or lose our jobs as of January 1. We have to "protect the patients." However, as I type the visit notes of these same patients, I see that about half of them choose to not get a flu shot themselves. I have not heard that any of our facilities are going to refuse to see patients who have not been vaccinated to "protect the other patients." I guess I lose my right to make the decision about what goes in MY body because I happen to have a healthcare related job, even tho I work from home and will never set foot in a clinic or hospital in a professional sense.

Want to bet on who loses the right to decide about this next? How about anyone employed in a school setting--teachers, janitors, school lunch ladies, bus drivers? How about grocery store workers--they handle your food? How about anyone working in a restaurant? How about all police and firefighters? Hell, why not just require it of EVERYONE--that way we are ALL "safe."

I agree w/the posters who said polio shots and the like are a good idea; flu shots, however, are a crap shoot as far as whether they will even cover whatever viruses happen to be around that year. AND you have to have one every year; it's not "one and done." Had this rule been in place when I started, I would never have taken this job. Is it fair for me to have to give up 7 years at this job and look for another one b/c some genius decided it would look good to say "oh, look, ALL our employees are vaccinated!" Do I sound angry and somewhat bitter? That's b/c I am. The patients can decide whether or not to take a med, have a procedure, get a vaccine. I lost that right somehow.

Measles is on the rise again because of parents that read incorrect information linking Autism to vaccinations. There is no correlation between the two. Yes, eating healthy will help keep you from getting sick, but it is not as effective as a vaccination.

I do want to put this out there I personally know alot of parents that do not vaccinate (well over 20) and in all of our discussions about vaccination they have never stated the possibility of it causing autism as the reason they choose not to vaccinate. I am sure there are lots of parents that say that but I am even more certain that there are even more parents that do not vaccinate their child for personal reasons and ultimately it is our decision as parents to choose what we allow to be done to our child and I have said this before but I do not feel that any parent that is responsibly choosing to not vaccinate there child is being irresponsible it is a very personal decision it is defintly not one size fits all personally I am not going to ever vaccinate a child (I will vaccinate them when they are teenagers when I feel they are ready and only if I feel its necessary which I do not think will happen). I do not think I am a irresponsible parent I love my children more than anything in this world I stay home with them and they are literally my life I can not bear the thought of injecting a vaccination into them that could cause serious side-effects and while it may not be widely talked about in public or on TV I think alot more children and adults have had reactions to vaccinations that what seems to be represented in the numbers I see published everywhere.

My dad pushes me hard to vaccinate and he was born in 1956 and I know he has never gone in for any vaccinations(since the age of 16 and I dont know what he got before then) and he is healthy but he seems to think I am doing some horrible crime by not vaccinating my children and here is how I explain it to him .. I chose to conceive my child and I carried and nourished my child within my body I love my child and there is no way I will take them to the doctor and inject them with something that could potentially kill them or change who they are I can live with the chance that they could catch a serious disease more than I could live with them being permanently harmed by something I choose to have injected into their bodies. I dont call that irresponsible I call that love .. I am sure every parent loves their child just as much as I do but my love prevents me from being able to do something potentially dangerous to my child.

And the school/vaccination arguement is insane in my opinion I am not at all impressed with the public school system it is just a standardized daycare system IMO and my children will NOT be attending public school

I do want to put this out there I personally know alot of parents that do not vaccinate (well over 20) and in all of our discussions about vaccination they have never stated the possibility of it causing autism as the reason they choose not to vaccinate. I am sure there are lots of parents that say that but I am even more certain that there are even more parents that do not vaccinate their child for personal reasons and ultimately it is our decision as parents to choose what we allow to be done to our child and I have said this before but I do not feel that any parent that is responsibly choosing to not vaccinate there child is being irresponsible it is a very personal decision it is defintly not one size fits all personally I am not going to ever vaccinate a child (I will vaccinate them when they are teenagers when I feel they are ready and only if I feel its necessary which I do not think will happen). I do not think I am a irresponsible parent I love my children more than anything in this world I stay home with them and they are literally my life I can not bear the thought of injecting a vaccination into them that could cause serious side-effects and while it may not be widely talked about in public or on TV I think alot more children and adults have had reactions to vaccinations that what seems to be represented in the numbers I see published everywhere.

My dad pushes me hard to vaccinate and he was born in 1956 and I know he has never gone in for any vaccinations(since the age of 16 and I dont know what he got before then) and he is healthy but he seems to think I am doing some horrible crime by not vaccinating my children and here is how I explain it to him .. I chose to conceive my child and I carried and nourished my child within my body I love my child and there is no way I will take them to the doctor and inject them with something that could potentially kill them or change who they are I can live with the chance that they could catch a serious disease more than I could live with them being permanently harmed by something I choose to have injected into their bodies. I dont call that irresponsible I call that love .. I am sure every parent loves their child just as much as I do but my love prevents me from being able to do something potentially dangerous to my child.

And the school/vaccination arguement is insane in my opinion I am not at all impressed with the public school system it is just a standardized daycare system IMO and my children will NOT be attending public school

I'm very glad your children will not be attending public school. I wouldn't want unvaccinated kids in the same school with my children (if I had any). Based on your own writing skills I do believe some formal tutoring would be beneficial for your kids, or are you planning to teach them grammar/spelling/writing yourself? I'm not trying to be mean here, but seriously..

My own experience: My child was exposed to another child who had the chicken pox and <<ewww> ring worm. I didn't know until it was too late and the parent admitted that the child was not vax'd. I thought, no sweat, my kid is fully vaccinated - right? Not 5 days later did she have, at first what I thought was mosquito bites... lo and behold - it was CP. Vaccinations will not "prevent", but will make the symptoms a lot less severe. A few days after that her big sister got them too but less severe than her sister. The younger one who was exposed to the chicken pox first was also exposed to right worm, and she got that on her forearms.
Now I get why you simply cannot vax your child due to his allergies. I have a friend who experienced the same. What I have a problem with is negligent parents with otherwise healthy children who don't.

Not getting your children vaccinated is irresponsible. Vaccines save lives, there really isn't any sane disputing of that. Eating well is invaluable and hopefully will help protect people from illness, but food is not medicine. It is fuel. Even the healthiest eaters can come down with a cold, or measles, or cancer.

I don't vaccinate for flu or even chickenpox, as some illnesses are needed to build up your immune system, but some, like smallpox....kind of needed eradicating!

Honestly when you don't use proper puncutuation and use run on sentences (we won't talk about your 10 sentence paragraphs) I flat won't read it.

I'm sure there are other people who are the same way.

It's too hard on the eyes to read something so bunched together.

Not quoting all of that because it's starting to get too long.

Honestly when you don't use proper puncutuation and use run on sentences (we won't talk about your 10 sentence paragraphs) I flat won't read it.

I'm sure there are other people who are the same way.

It's too hard on the eyes to read something so bunched together.

I respectfully have to agree with the above. Claiming to have gotten As in English, but forgoing the use of paragraphs, commas and periods, makes it difficult to assign any credulity to the statements being made by the poster. I get a few sentences in, give it up as a bad job, and go on to the next post.