This sounds great in theory but not so easily practiced in reality. When / if you have kids, you'll find they often get the "sniffles". It's not feasible to yank them from school every time this occurs, nor would it be worth the risk (IMHO) of exposing other children to a potentially fatal disease based on such unsubstantiated "caution".
This is not your normal ghost story MR, this is real - with real consequences. Such irresponsible advocacy of relying on parents to detect the presence of measles early enough to prevent infecting others seems extremely dangerous. I usually like to watch you get our neighbors all worked up but this topic is nothing to play with - there are people that actually follow this "vaccine abstinence" advice - their children and others pay the price for such a cavalier attitude. I advise that you reign it in here, but advice can fall on deaf ears...
It's not just the sniffles though. The children are contagious before those symptoms can even start.
The biggest irony of anti-vaxxers like MR come to the fore with arguments like this:
Babies too young to be vaccinated are protected by their vaccinated mother's antibodies. But even that fails sometimes. So your pathetic baby-killing accusation is exposed. Besides, the unvaccinated at Disneyland are believed to have been foreigners. NOT antivaxxers. I've already stated this. You really should read the whole thread.
Here are people pushing people to not vaccinate their children, and then one of their defenses for non-vaccination for babies is because the babies will have passive immunity from their vaccinated mothers.
Then of course, he points out how the outbreak at Disneyland was caused by someone who was not vaccinated and then whines that we are coming down too hard on the anti-vaccine brigade who push for people to not vaccinate their children.
MR believes that anti-vaxxers do not exist in other countries. The reality is they do.
But here is someone pointing out how someone who was not vaccinated caused the current Measles outbreak in the US, while pushing for non-vaccination...
The hypocrisy of the movement itself, the unscientific nature of it, is obscene.
And then, as I also pointed out in my previous post, when your child gets sick, you do take them out in public by taking them to the doctors. And he completely ignores the fact that Measles, for example, is contagious before any symptoms even make themselves known. So short of taking blood tests every few days, you can't really know when a child is going to come down with it and you won't know they have come down with it until the symptoms appear. And the child is highly contagious before those symptoms even appear.
The arguments he makes is so dangerous. My family live with what no vaccine was like back 40+ years ago. So do all the families we know from there. It is so dangerous and absolutely irresponsible.
And people will die. Others will be affected for life. And it isn't just from the onset of measles. People who have suffered from measles
can die several years down the track. And the only way to get it is if you have suffered from Measles, especially if you caught measles before you are 2 years of age (such as those 5 babies in the daycare center in the US). The only way to guarantee you won't get it is if you are vaccinated. SSPE was not that uncommon in SE Asia and the ME. It isn't anymore because more and more people are getting their children vaccinated. Now, imagine going backwards and having less and less children immunised.
Which is why MR's stance and what he is actively advocating is deadly ideology. Literally. The reason this outbreak occurred in the US is because so many parents are not immunising their children. Going backwards in regards to medicine is nothing to laugh at, as MR laughs at it. It is so irresponsible, selfish and downright stupid.
