Why you should Vaccinate your Child
For the first time in many years, I have purchased an actual printed magazine.
The June 2010 cover of North & South magazine is a shocking photo of a six year old girl with all four of her limbs amputated. It’s a shocking, distressing photo, and New Zealand needs to see it.
The photo illustrates what happens when you children are not vaccinated. The percentage of people without immunity drops below the levels required for herd immunity levels, and the chance of infection by those who cannot receive vaccinations for one reason or another sky-rockets. This is what happens when in the name of being “fair and balanced”, equal time is given by news organisations to a cartel of charlatans and deliberately ignorant anti-scientific alternative medicine quacks who have the audacity to pass themselves off as authoritative.
Fortunately, N&S chose not to pander to these clowns. The Editorial column has the following to say;
“North & south makes no apology this month for championing childhood vaccinations. We did not seek out the extreme anti-immunisation campaigners for ‘balance’, because their arguments aren’t balanced.”
Bravo!
Oh, Ed… Charlotte (the lovely young lady you mention), got Meningitis Septicaemia. Its a disease you CANT vaccinate for. AND the MeNZb vaccine hadnt been released here yet for her to have it! (It was launched a few weeks later)
That said, however, I do agree with the article in North and South, and I even bought the mag myself as well.
@Mel
I know. I suspect that N&S chose her because is that diseases that we can apply vaccines to don’t provide as shocking an image. Coffins apparently just don’t have the effect they used to.