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Mamamia:
I am the 70s child of a health nut. I wasn’t vaccinated. I was brought up on an incredibly healthy diet: no sugar till
I was one, breastfed for over a year, organic homegrown vegetables, raw
milk, no MSG, no additives, no aspartame. My mother used homeopathy,
aromatherapy, osteopathy, we took daily supplements of vitamin C,
echinacea, cod liver oil.
I had an outdoor lifestyle;
I grew up next to a farm, walked everywhere, did sports and danced
twice a week, drank plenty of water. I wasn’t even allowed pop; even my
fresh juice was watered down to protect my teeth, and I would’ve killed
for white, shop-bought bread in my lunch box once in a while and
biscuits instead of fruit like all the other kids.
We only ate (organic local) meat maybe once or twice a week and my
mother and father cooked everything from scratch – I have yet to taste a
Findus crispy pancake and oven chips were reserved for those nights
when mum and dad had friends over and we got a “treat.”
“How could I, with my idyllic childhood and my amazing health food, get so freaking ill all the time?”
As healthy as my lifestyle seemed, I contracted measles, mumps,
rubella, a type of viral meningitis, scarlatina, whooping cough, yearly
tonsillitis, and chickenpox, some of which are vaccine preventable. In
my twenties I got precancerous HPV
and spent 6 months of my life wondering how I was going to tell my two
children under the age of 7 that mummy might have cancer before it was
safely remove. (Read more.)
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2 comments:
The three things in this world that have saved more lives, millions and millions of lives, than anything else in the world:
1. Washing your hands.
2. Cheap, clean, drinkable water at the tap.
3. Vaccines,vaccines, vaccines.
Vaccines save lives. Vaccines do NOT cause autism. Homeopathic medicine doesn't cure anything and is not medicine.
The whole article focuses on protecting our children from disease. While vaccines can help some diseases, we cannot keep our child from never getting sick. And the redemptive power of suffering is not in the equation. If my child catches tonsillectomy, while I wish he would not suffer, it is a chance help him learn how suffering is not bad in God's eyes. He allows us to suffer, as His Son did.
This idea of preserving our children from all things is unrealistic. We just can't live perfect lives here on earth.
I disagree that some vaccines are necessary. This is an age of daycare, both parents working, and to over vaccinate is the way to keep our children from staying home and interrupting the planned lives. Chicken pox is an example.
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