re: #95 Charles

Again — the anti-vaccination crowd is NOT only liberals.

Charles,

Thank you so much. And thank you for posting this thread. Yes, people of every political persuasion have drunk the Kool-Aid, and persist in believing the shibboleth that vaccines cause autism, etc. Simply not true. I have posted about this so many times, and am told off by every side of the political spectrum.

I am a mother of 4, grandmother of 3, and have had all of our kids vaccinated, and in turn, my kids and their spouses have also made sure that the grandkids have had theirs. And I am also a retired RN, who was born in 1938, and saw, as I grew up, classmates who had polio, and the after effects..measles, mumps, chicken pox? I had all 3. NY Grampa and I still get DT shots, as do all our kids.

Sadly, Autism is now seen as genetic in so many cases…not caused by a vaccine.
Mercury has been out of the picture for years. What bothers me is that California allows misguided parents to opt out, rather than have it mandatory, except in a case where there is a proven medical reason that a particular child has an allergy to a component.

Grrrrrrr. Yoo, hoo, Pat? Still here? ;) I had a phone call and was asked to ‘splain some things re the absence of a connection between libs and/or conservatives and their use of vaccines.