Indigo children

grmblfjx wrote:

Sheba wrote:

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Lady Anne wrote:

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I honestly don't know why the two of you go spewing every last scary bit you've ever heard about every disease you can think of when nobody here is actually against vaccination. Who are you preaching to? Why? All that was said is that "if your son gets the measles HE'S GONNA DIE" is ridiculous.

Actually, I was agreeing about the need for vaccination (with examples to back up my arguments). Also, please note that I didn't say "All teh unvaccinated people are gonna die!!!111!eleventy11!!!" Few diseases are universally fatal, and fewer still are universally contractible.

Lady Anne wrote:

A tuberculosis vaccine exists, but isn't often used.

Wait, you don't get the BCG where you are?

Lady Anne wrote:

grmblfjx wrote:

Sheba wrote:

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Lady Anne wrote:

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I honestly don't know why the two of you go spewing every last scary bit you've ever heard about every disease you can think of when nobody here is actually against vaccination. Who are you preaching to? Why? All that was said is that "if your son gets the measles HE'S GONNA DIE" is ridiculous.

Actually, I was agreeing about the need for vaccination (with examples to back up my arguments). Also, please note that I didn't say "All teh unvaccinated people are gonna die!!!111!eleventy11!!!" Few diseases are universally fatal, and fewer still are universally contractible.

Sorry; it's hard to shift gears sometimes and remember that we're (mostly) all sane here. Dealing with crazies so often everyone starts to look like one. I apologize and will edit that post if you'd prefer.

Sheba wrote:

Hell, even influenza can be fatal to a young kid with an underdeveloped (or compromised) immune system!

The flu vaccine is fucking useless. Vitamin D is more effective, and it doesn't make your arm hurt.

Sheba wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

grmblfjx wrote:

Sheba wrote:

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Lady Anne wrote:

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I honestly don't know why the two of you go spewing every last scary bit you've ever heard about every disease you can think of when nobody here is actually against vaccination. Who are you preaching to? Why? All that was said is that "if your son gets the measles HE'S GONNA DIE" is ridiculous.

Actually, I was agreeing about the need for vaccination (with examples to back up my arguments). Also, please note that I didn't say "All teh unvaccinated people are gonna die!!!111!eleventy11!!!" Few diseases are universally fatal, and fewer still are universally contractible.

Sorry; it's hard to shift gears sometimes and remember that we're (mostly) all sane here. Dealing with crazies so often everyone starts to look like one. I apologize and will edit that post if you'd prefer.

...SOMEONE'S BEING REASONABLE ON THE INTERNET AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO COPE

HALP


(edit your post, what? I'm just being cranky. >.>)

Cyberwulf wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

A tuberculosis vaccine exists, but isn't often used.

Wait, you don't get the BCG where you are?

No...is it used in Ireland? Here we just get tested for exposure.

Lady Anne wrote:

Cyberwulf wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

A tuberculosis vaccine exists, but isn't often used.

Wait, you don't get the BCG where you are?

No...is it used in Ireland? Here we just get tested for exposure.

I think it's still used, I'll have to check with my sis whether my niece got it. I've got a big scar on my upper arm where I had it as a baby. In sixth class (final year of primary school) we were tested to see if the vaccine was still providing immunity. A nurse jams this thing with about twelve little needles into your forearm and if the pinpricks come up in little bumps the vaccine's still effective. If you don't have a reaction you get the BCG again. My sister had no reaction and had to have the injection. She had to have a bandage over the injection site, it was that painful.

I had the BCG when I was 5 and was exposed to TB at a family wedding (my uncle was a concentration camp survivor, and came home with TB. He was also at the wedding). That was in 1961. Just about every kid in my class at school had those little bumps on their arm. As far as I know, it's still used in the UK.

Wow...the BCG isn't commonly given in the U.S. (or at least not California). One would think it would be given, considering the fact that people come here from all over the world, including places where TB is far more common than in the U.S.

I once met a kid with active TB (he came to school sick, and the office put him in a study carrel in the library in an attempt to isolate him until he could be sent home), but I don't think I picked up any of the bacteria, because I have never tested positive for TB exposure (I've been tested three time since then, as a mandatory condition of continued employment).

i tested positive around age 3 or 4 cos my neighbor had/has it but it turned out to be a false positive

the tests they put me through scared me off of the medical establishment for a long damn time tho

folks seriously gotta learn how to handle scared kids in a hospital setting

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SirDixonDongs wrote:

i tested positive around age 3 or 4 cos my neighbor had/has it but it turned out to be a false positive

the tests they put me through scared me off of the medical establishment for a long damn time tho

folks seriously gotta learn how to handle scared kids in a hospital setting

When I was a kid I snorted pixie sticks once because my friend told me I would sneeze all the colors of the rainbow.

I just sneezed blood.

Mr.Doobie wrote:

SirDixonDongs wrote:

i tested positive around age 3 or 4 cos my neighbor had/has it but it turned out to be a false positive

the tests they put me through scared me off of the medical establishment for a long damn time tho

folks seriously gotta learn how to handle scared kids in a hospital setting

When I was a kid I snorted pixie sticks once because my friend told me I would sneeze all the colors of the rainbow.

I just sneezed blood.

one time at bible camp i ate fire ants on a dare

At bible camp I spoke in tongues and rolled around on the ground like all the cool kids because goddammit I wasn't going to be a loser THERE too!

grmblfjx wrote:

I honestly don't know why the two of you go spewing every last scary bit you've ever heard about every disease you can think of when nobody here is actually against vaccination.

Thank you grumbles.


Although I am still not sure since when being anti-vac was an indigo thing? I am not sure that is really an indigo thing. We were talking about how indigo parents do not want to admit their kid has autism and then somehow made this leap to the whole vac=/=autism debacle and I am not sure how that happened?

Probably because the indigo thing and anti-vac thing are anti-science woo-woo shit with a bug up their asses about autism

Reepicheep-chan wrote:

I am not sure how that happened?

I'm pretty sure I've seen you around this forum before, though?

grmblfjx wrote:

Reepicheep-chan wrote:

I am not sure how that happened?

I'm pretty sure I've seen you around this forum before, though?

:c :c :c :c

Oh come on that's half the charm of this place.

Mr.Doobie wrote:

SirDixonDongs wrote:

i tested positive around age 3 or 4 cos my neighbor had/has it but it turned out to be a false positive

the tests they put me through scared me off of the medical establishment for a long damn time tho

folks seriously gotta learn how to handle scared kids in a hospital setting

When I was a kid I snorted pixie sticks once because my friend told me I would sneeze all the colors of the rainbow.

I just sneezed blood.

When I was a kid I learned how to crush smarties good and proper to snort them.

In a nice line and everything.

Probably a Scarface re-enactment type of deal but whatever