I recently read an article about the Whooping Cough Epidemic in CA. Apparently, there are almost 600 cases and 5 babies under 3 months old have died. So the local authorities are recomending children be immunized and people who care for children get a booster shot.
Now, one point of the article particularly ammused me: the suggestion that babies who aren't immunized are most vulnerable. First, the people who promote vaccines in children are required to by some higher-ups who make a lot of money on all those shots (some of which have more costly side-effects than the disease itself). Second, the babies who die from whooping cough are the ones who are too young to get the shot anyway!
My bro Sheldon almost died at 2 months old from whooping cough because he hadn't had the shot (too young!), and he cought the disease from the neighbor kids who didn't even know they had it. Clearly, if they didn't know they had it, they weren't on deaths door. Interesting. It all kinda seems like a scare tactic to me (or maybe an effort to get every parent to run down to the local office to get their kids shot up). Just sayin'.
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