Smug Promoters of Vaccine-Preventable Disease

Read this from a parent's Facebook account, reposted at a pro-vax FB page

Some of the comments, from provax folk:

Comment one

We're just happy happy little infection spreaders. No thought about any consequences here - its not just other baseball players and Scout campers you are endangering - these kids have homes, where perhaps there are newborns, or pregnant women, or people with compromised immunity. But an anti-vaxxer wouldn't care about that. On a mission to spread illness as widely and indiscrimanently as possible.

Comment two:

I am someone who can't afford to be sick. I have a compromised immune system. A sniffle for most people can take weeks for me to fight, and chicken pox would put me out of commission for a very long time. 

The glee this person has about infecting others makes me livid.

Comment three:

Great, just great! Thanks for possibly exposing my immunocompromised son to a disease that can be deadly for him. Seriously, deadly! It could kill him. And you're all "happy, happy joy, joy" about it? Seriously? It is mind boggling the slefishness of some people!

Comments

[Alison Cummins]

It’s not immunity, it’s infection! The point of “immunity” is NOT getting sick.

[ColdDimSum]

I would like to add a couple:

Not only can Chicken Pox be deadly, later in life it can come back as Shingles which can be excruciatingly painful and debilitating and deadly (and cause blindness, brain damage, etc)

diseases mutate, they are giving them more vectors to do so

[Cassie Zupke]

Thanks for posting this. I'd heard of folks deciding to not vaccinate their children, but hadn't realized some people took such joy in spreading infection to others. Sad.

-- Cassie

[Tjeerd]

I am a parent, my kids take part in the dutch national vaccination program.

In the Netherlands there is no active vaccination of chickenpox, 95% of the childeren will get it before they are 12. It is not that chickenpox is dangerous only 2 in 100,000 die. The mortality rate of flu is much higher 30 in 100,000.

There is no way you can prevent ever getting sick.

[Nadine Haven]

I'm not an expert when it comes to this. Didn't even know this was possible. Useful read, appreciate your posting this.

[Liz Ditz]

Tjeerd, national vaccine policies vary. I believe the Netherlands has national health care. The US does not, nor does it have a robust safety net.

So an ill child requires medical care and home care for at least two weeks.

These two reasons were (in part) why the varicella vaccine was mandated for school entry.