Vaccines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2017
- The benefits of vaccines far outweigh the minuscule risks, but some parents still question their safety. John Oliver discusses why some people may still feel uncertainty about childhood vaccinations.
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I was born in 1951. The measles vaccine wasn’t developed until 1963. I got measles as did many of my friends. One friend ended up with heart damage and another went deaf. So you bet my kids were vaccinated on schedule. For everything.
I have autism, and whenever I hear that "vaccines cause autism so I'm not vaccinating my kids" argument, it's hurtful, because what they're actually saying, maybe without even realizing it, is: "I would rather have my child die and put hundreds of other people at risk, than have an autistic child"
I love how this is relevant again because human stupidity is an endless cycle of hell.
As someone on the Autism spectrum, I’m insulted that people would rather have their kids die slowly and painfully from preventable illnesses than have them be Autistic.
I remember my science teacher used to wear a shirt that said:
My mom didn’t vaccinate me, I am proud to say as of today I’m fully vaccinated. I’m 24.
When I was in elementary school, a new kid came to our class. We were all told in class his name, where he came from, and what he was going through. He was fighting an aggressive leukemia, and in order to keep him healthy and allowed to play and work along side with us, we had to wear paper masks and wash our hands according to the bell (she had an alarm clock set on her desk for it). If we did not feel well, tell our parents before coming to school, and if we had a fever, arrangements would be made if we were unable to stay home. This was also sent home and had to be signed by our parents and at Open House it was re-explained to everyone at once so we all understood. Everybody followed the rules. He stayed healthy (and beat it, he is 38 years old today). Nobody complained. End of story.
"Tiny children are not horses." Well fk, I'm now overwhelmed by the monumental task of having to dismantle my entire tiny kid racing operation..
My brother was fully vaccinated by my step father from day one and has had maybe a dozen minor illnesses and has never been hospitalised. I on the other hand was never vaccinated, I was a lotus birth and I was breastfed till I was four, I've had tonsilitis, 2 lung infections(because my mother refused to believe that I needed antibiotics), chicken pox, endometriosis, and a dozen major issues over the years, including being hospitalised as a 2yo baby because I got a cut that my mother never cleaned or managed because it "had to heal naturally" and it turned into a major infection that almost killed me.
I’m autistic and I can tell you that it’s better than being dead, deaf or blind (I’m just blind to social cues😄) (That is not to say that deaf/blind people are any lesser than others, I MEAN NO OFFENCE)
"I don't know who to ask."
In an amazing ironic twist, my parents didn't give me the MMR when I was a kid (they were worried about crohns disease mostly) and yet I still ended up with autism lmao
Okay, so my English class is very divided. The kids in there are either fairly liberal or fairly conservative, so it is RARE that we agree on anything.
Should you feed your children? I mean there's so much information out there, and where can you find a truly unbiased source?
Just a reminder that we don't need a "cure" for autism.
My grandma brings up her friend from childhood who contracted polio, and always expresses how lucky she and her sisters were that they never caught it. She can't understand vaccine hesitancy when it saved so many lives.
As an Autistic person:
I didn't like the remarks about fish. Many of them are actually schooled.
I have autism. Sure it makes some aspects of life more difficult for me and others need more support than I do but it isn’t something that can be “prevented.” Parents shouldn’t blame themselves or anything else for it. They should love and support their child unconditionally to make sure they have a happy and healthy life.
As an autistic adult, I find it offensive that so many parents would rather a dead child than a child like me