Do Kids Get TOO Many Vaccines?

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[rvdb]

I was one of only a handfull vaccinated children in a community that didn't vaccinate for religious reasons (my parents actually got into trouble for having me vaccinated). Ive seen how bad these diseases can be. My cousins best friend died of the measles. A girl in our village got meningitis as a complication of the measles when she was only 6 months old (too young to be vaccinated). She has a severe mental disability as a result. In a community with herd immunity she would probably have been safe.
Whooping cough also looked brutal. Kids were completely exhausted. My unvaccinated friends told me that the mumps were very painful. Most were not too sick with Rubella, but that one is really dangerous for pregnant women, so they were placed in quite long (and boring) quarantaine.
I was fortunate to not get any of these thanks to my parents decision to have me vaccinated.

[j.lahtinen]

My grandmother was very pro-vaccine, because she had lived at a time when there were no vaccines widely available, and children weren't vaccinated. She remembered attending the funerals of her school mates. She lived till 90, and had no patience for the anti-vax nonsense.

[SaeedahS]

Vaccines are so important. Even if some people don't get it and most of the community do, then the minority are protected from the specific diseases due to herd immunity

[theCidisIn]

There's a reason we don't see them anymore Damn it dude!

[murdoc]

Your immune system is like an army, do you want their first real fight against war hardened enemies, or just a mock battle with some small risks of injury?

[ThirdLawPair]

You did a really great job making a respectful argument by finding the one thing that makes sense out of a trillion absolutely absurd anti-vaccine arguments.

[emilynorth]

Yeah I’m still vaccinating my kids, my pets and myself, I may be autistic but I’m pretty sure that happened before I was vaccinated 😂😂

[Meshugas]

That's so cool! When I came to the US I didnt have my medical records handy so I got EVERY vaccine you're ever supposed to get AGAIN in one sitting and I was always a little unsure if that was even allowed or came with risks. 10 years later and I'm fine and healthy.

[sparklpugtea]

I wouldn’t have been here today without modern medicine. Hospitalized often and overall a very sickly child. Thank the scientists and doctors who gave me the opportunity to see this world

[autumnk]

I appreciate this clip marrying facts with HOW people think.

[aatirahtahoor]

Vaccines are important. Ask us who live in the third world how vaccination has prevented so many deadly diseases.

[dhwyll]

I think it was Ruth Bader Ginsberg who quipped that is like the person saying, "I'm not getting wet. Why do I need this umbrella?"

[jaydubbelyoo]

My argument is that I’d rather feel a little discomfort or under the weather from the vaccination, than get sick from the actual disease, or even worse, pass it on to my disability clients who are on immunosuppressant’s and suffer horrendous complications from their autoimmune diseases, and are therefore unable to get vaccinated.

[Doom_The_Almighty]

Very well explained, I've never not believed in vaccination but the way he explained why people with little to no scientific knowledge could mis-read the situation was helpful for understanding their viewpoint

[RK-fzqc]

My sis caught measles when she was under a year old, just a few weeks from her scheduled mmr vaccine. She was so sick with a super high fever for about 2 weeks and my parents had to keep her in the bathtub to get her temp down. She couldn’t handle any light so the house was kept in pitch darkness that whole time. We had the state health department down at our house every couple of days to monitor the spread (and to accuse my parents of not vaccinating even though she was under a year, the idiots)
She nearly died, it’s a miracle she pulled through
Measles is scary!! You don’t want to deal with that!

[jenniferhlmn]

My great uncle was the only one of his brothers and sisters too not get the polio vaccine because he was sick the day the doctors came to give the vaccine. He then contracted polio. He's permanently handicapped although that hasn't stopped him from living life

[bobowon]

My mom talks about having gotten mumps, measles, chicken pox, whooping cough. She says getting those diseases when she was a kid was basically as normal as catching a cold.

I don't know a single person who has ever even gotten chicken pox

[AngelitaDanes]

That makes total sense!! But most primary physicians/family medicine doctors don’t explain that to people!! So thank you for this informative short🙏

[HowievYT]

Primary carte nurse here. Thanks Dr Mike - keep shouting it loud and clear. we all so need advocates now.

[AleaumeAnders]

When I was a kid, I caught all the typical childrens diseases. Mumps, measles, rubella, whooping cough, you name it, I got it. I was extremely lucky and unlucky at the same time. Lucky, because I only suffer from an hyper-active immune system as a result. Unlucky, because vaccinations became available during my childhood, sometimes just a few months to late for me. Heck I was vaccinated against some of those diseases AFTER I had them. I'm from East-Germany, they weren't big on such individualistic things like "oh you are already immune, so no need to vaccinate you". Nope, the whole school was vaccinated at once, NO discussion.
As a result, my little sister, a mere 2.5 years younger than me had almost none of those childrens diseases, because she was vaccinated in time. My own children had NONE of them, again, having been vaccinated.
To this day I remember the horror of my mother when she was told, that me and my two older brothers got mumps. I'm incredible thankful that I never had to fear for the life of my children. And I can only stand by the answer of one doctor, asked by a mother if she should vaccinate her children "Only those that you want to keep".