Immunization Rant

Okay, I get it! Heaven forbid my child becomes the Outbreak monkey and infects thousands with a long dead virus like Polio or Measles but is it absolutely necessary to stab the child four times every two months?! Won't this just cause worse and worse illnesses to appear and weaker and weaker immune systems? The worst part with shots isn't the crying, or the look of betrayal, or holding them down while a stranger hurts them. It isn't even the day after when they spike a fever of 101.6 and their leg swells up and is painful to move. It is the feeling that you are doing something wrong. That in the next 20 years, when they are researching why so many little boys have Autism, or a third eye or something, they will realize, oh, maybe we SHOULDN'T have overloaded their systems at two days old with the Hep. B vaccine.

They also want me to give him Vitamin D supplement so he doesn't get Rickets. RICKETS?? What are we, pirates?! You want me to make sure he gets citrus too so he doesn't get Scurvy?! And make sure, no pet rats, you know what a bitch that Black Death is!! Not to get all preachy and religious on these people, but isn't it something that we trust god with our jobs, money, lives, even our death, but when it comes to our babies, doctors are the leading authority. I mean I get it, my grandmother had Polio and it is a good thing that vaccines exist, but what is the rush!? Do you really think a two month old is going to stumble into a measles outbreak? OR could it be possible that it is just more convenient for the doctors to haphazardly give these quick four shots, and be done with it?

The really scary thing? If, god forbid, there was an outbreak of one of the diseases that he has been immunized against, the shots would not prevent him from getting sick necessarily. In fact, most the people who get sick with an outbreak HAVE been immunized. It concerns me that he has every side effect mentioned and that even the CDC states that the side effects will just worsen with each shot. This scares me enough to delay or stagger the rest of his shots.