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Neither I nor my siblings played outside with chicken pox.
Nor did any of my children.
Anyone who allowed that is guilty of intentionally inflicting personal injury.
Interesting point. Back in the day people weren’t quick to sue, but in today’s environment a case will probably happen sooner or later where a parent sues another parent for not keeping their contagious kid home when they know they’re contagious.
Lack of a waiver does not force you to get a vaccine. You can still choose not to vaccinate.
If that’s wrong, please provide a link to state law (any state will do) where the lack of a waiver triggers a forced vaccination when a parent doesn’t want their child to get the vaccine. Unless you can provide this, your claim that you don’t have the right to choose is false.
A lot of parents are forced to have their children vaccinated against their will due to the need to send them to school so they can have an education and th parents can go to work and be able to afford to put a roof over their heads and food ot he table. You can’t seem to grasp this is not true choice.
My previous post was correct then. You would have been the one and only kid in my neighborhood hiding inside from all of us other kids who were running, biking, swimming and playing getting the chicken pox over and done with. You think you were so much smarter to wait and hope that you got it older so you could increase your risk of complications, including death. Who’s idea was crazier? Without a doubt, yours.
Your neighborhood sounds like the outlier, according to all the people posting here who said no such thing was going on in their 'hoods.
My previous post was correct then. You would have been the one and only kid in my neighborhood hiding inside from all of us other kids who were running, biking, swimming and playing getting the chicken pox over and done with. You think you were so much smarter to wait and hope that you got it older so you could increase your risk of complications, including death. Who’s idea was crazier? Without a doubt, yours.
I grew up in the 80s and nobody played outside with chickenpox. I'm wondering if you are remembering incorrectly or maybe thinking of a different illness, like 5th disease or something? When you have the chickenpox, you have a fever and are miserable with itching; you're not running around outside getting all sweaty or going swimming. I remember my mom putting calamine lotion on me and me shivering in bed with a fever. Who would send their kid out to play with those symptoms?
My previous post was correct then. You would have been the one and only kid in my neighborhood hiding inside from all of us other kids who were running, biking, swimming and playing getting the chicken pox over and done with. You think you were so much smarter to wait and hope that you got it older so you could increase your risk of complications, including death. Who’s idea was crazier? Without a doubt, yours.
Oh the horror. I had to sit out a few days since my mother was respectful of other people’s kids and didn’t want to make the choice to be exposed to a disease for them.
A lot of parents are forced to have their children vaccinated against their will due to the need to send them to school so they can have an education and th parents can go to work and be able to afford to put a roof over their heads and food ot he table. You can’t seem to grasp this is not true choice.
It is still a choice. You can't necessarily choose to be exempt from the consequences of your choice, but you can certainly still make your choice. Lots of working parents homeschool; that's a valid way to choose not to vaccinate. There's online school, too. Hire a babysitter and have the kids do school online. Or work split shifts with your spouse so one can homeschool the kids during the day while the other works. Someone who is very dedicated to their ideal of not vaccinating would be able to find an alternative, no doubt. Nobody will hold down your child and vaccinate them against your will.
Oh the horror. I had to sit out a few days since my mother was respectful of other people’s kids and didn’t want to make the choice to be exposed to a disease for them.
Yep you increased your risk of complications including death by staying inside, hiding from the kids who had chicken pox. You still go the chicken pox anyway. Not smart.
Also, the parents I knew actually talked to one another. No one was being disrespectful and exposing people without discussing it.
I grew up in the 80s and nobody played outside with chickenpox. I'm wondering if you are remembering incorrectly or maybe thinking of a different illness, like 5th disease or something? When you have the chickenpox, you have a fever and are miserable with itching; you're not running around outside getting all sweaty or going swimming. I remember my mom putting calamine lotion on me and me shivering in bed with a fever. Who would send their kid out to play with those symptoms?
I am remembering correctly. It was chicken definitely pox.
Oh the horror. I had to sit out a few days since my mother was respectful of other people’s kids and didn’t want to make the choice to be exposed to a disease for them.
I bet your mean helicopter mom also made you stay inside when you had the flu even though you were clamoring to be let out while sweating and shivering and vomiting and hacking up a lung coughing. Am I right?
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