Advantages of the current immunization program to individuals and the whole community outlining the reasons wh
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So many people have been vaccinated that people think a lot of these diseases have been eradicated.  But what happens is since nobody has been getting sick with these diseases, people who aren't vaccinated have no natural immunity to certain diseases, and even though they are illnesses that shouldn't typically kill someone, the unvaccinated person can get really sick or even die.
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The benefits....growing together as a family and FREEDOM!  Those are the biggest benefits for me and my family.  The freedom to learn as we see fit, the freedom to learn and explore what we FEEL like learning and exploring, the freedom to spend all day at the beach regardless of whether or not we are some type of schoolish "vacation".  \n\nWho needs recess when you can go outside all day, swim in your pool, walk, run, go to the park, etc. for much longer than at school?  \n\nAs far as friends, home educated children make them in their neighborhoods, extra curricular activities, and groups.  \n\nAs far as team effort...um, a family  IS a team and how silly for anyone to try and say that school is the only place where "team" work happens, what a crock.   When siblings work on something together or a child works with their parent on something that IS team work, and when home educated children get with their friends and do projects or are on a sports team...that IS teamwork.\n\nSocially?  I love the socializing that happens via home education and that is another awesome benefit of home schooling.  You are not stuck in an artificial setting with 30 peers 5 days a week, ONLY in school settings does that happen.  Outside of school people of all ages intermingle and socialize and converse with one another, share their knowledge, etc.  Even in a stuffy ole office building you more than likely will not find people of all the same age working together.  You can meet interesting people in your community, at the library, stores, at the Bus Stop, volunteering, etc...so awesome.  The world is so much bigger than the classroom, and how many people do you "meet" in school anyway?  Unless there is a new child or you are a new student you've already made a decision as to who you are going to hang with.  That is why many home schoolers are seen as odd, it really isn't an issue, so they aren't used to the situation and it is new and uncomfortable, so what?  Most fit in after awhile, same as a small town boy/girl making the move to the big city...some only take a bit of time to adjust, some may take longer but eventually you begin to feel comfortable and fit in.  \n\nSetbacks?  They may not know how to raise their hand to ask how to go potty...oh, but that doesn't happen outside of school, except perhaps in the military.  Standing in line?  Nope, they do just fine, as many are accustomed to standing in line at the store, bank, movies, etc. with their parents.  Taking instructions from other adults?  Most home educated children I know do something outside of the home that requires taking directions from other adults so no, they are fine there too.\n\nIgnorant people making bias and rash judgements on a group of people who are different than them...that is the biggest setback.  Having to defend your reasons for home educating to a bunch of ignorant people making generalizations based on opinions only or perhaps a couple of bad run ins.\n\nSometimes we get under each others skin, but that is normal for most families.  Sometimes it is hard to think of new and fun things to do and be creative.    However, I certainly wouldn't call those setbacks.
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The point is that everyone needs to be vaccinated. I have never been, and I am a 6'3" 3.8 GPA College Student with a 168 IQ. The main reason that people vaccinate is fear. They have done it. Their parents and grandparents have done it, and, therefore, they vaccinate their kids. There is evidence that thimerosal in vaccines can cause autism, and several other conditions. The ironic thing is that even if vaccines were necessary, they would not be necessary for everyone. There would simply have to be a high enough percentage to slow the spread of a disease so that it can be contained. In reality, though, this is not true. Statisitcs show that many of the people who are affected in were vaccinated. I would, however, discourage a quest for resolution on this one. The medical community is not at all willing to take this issue seriously and you are just going to be getting a lot of sheep mad. Good luck though. It is a serious issue.
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I think that there was a common vaccine given to kids at their school for mumps,rubeola and chicken pox.After that time the powers that be decided it was basically eraticated at large and they changed it to be done elsewhere to the parents choosing. So, if you are going to be exposed now-you must show your own proof that you had your shots.
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Benefits !! \nHope this help...
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Hopefully no vaccinations will be given.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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I could not disagree more strongly with the first two respondents.  Proponents of immunization will point out the decline in childhood illness since mass immunizations became popular.  They fail to point out the fact that these diseases declined in European countries around the same time, BEFORE these countries initiated mass immunizations for children.  A more likely explanation for the drop in childhood illness in the improvement of sanitation that we saw at this time.  In fact, every known case of polio in the U.S. since the 1970's was caused by the vaccine.\n\nWhat childhood diseases are we afraid of anyway?  Mumps?  Mumps is an innocuous viral disease that requires no medical treatment.  Bed rest for two or three days and a soft food diet with plenty of fluid will offer the child a lifetime of immunity (something no vaccine can offer).  The mumps vaccine is usually administered along with measles and rubella -a vaccine combination that is loaded with mercury and is implicated in the shocking rise in the prevalence of autism.\n\nMeasles?  Another viral disease that requires no medical treatment.  The medical community will attempt to justify the vaccine be quoting the statistic of 1/1000 developing a type of encephalitis.  my own research and experience causes me to question this statistic.  In the middle and upper income brackets in this country, this stat is more like 1/10000.  Rare.\n\nRubella?  Pertussis?  Chicken Pox?  None of these diseases are exceedingly dangerous in this day and age, and contracting them naturally offers lifetime immunity.  This, without the dangerous side effects of the vaccines designed to treat them.\n\nI won't keep writing about all of the dangers of vaccines, but I will suggest that the single most important thing that you can do for your child is to breast feed her... a lot.  Breast milk IS her immune system for the first three months, and the microbes that she comes in contact with on mom's nipple will gently introduce her to new challenges to her immune system.  The child's nervous system is about 80% developed when he is 2 years old.  If one must get immunizations, waiting until the age of 2 will give the child the best chance to avoid injury.  (Japan's current immunization schedule begins at age 2.  Since the change in this schedule SIDS has all but disappeared).\n\nDr.B.H.
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Vaccinations are actually weaker versions of the actually disease you're suppose to be fighting. After a flu vaccination, you get the symptoms of a flu because now you have a weaker antigen in your body, and your body starts to react to fight it [i.e running nose, fever...].\n\nThe vaccination is to help you build up an immunity against the disease by having the anitbodies take on the antigens directly. Then the memory cells of your body will be able to detect and remember how to fight this disease or illness in the near future.
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There are homeopathic remedies that can help ease the body's ability to tolerate the vaccination and lesson the possible adverse reactions.  Unfortunately I do not remember which ones they are.  However, I highly recommend a very informative, non-biased book on the subject called Vaccinations:  A Thoughtful Parent's Guide...It presents the pros and cons of both sides of the "issue" of vaccinations and also recommends herbal concoctions and homeopathic remedies like I mentioned above.  I was able to borrow it from my local library.  Please look into it!  You'll be really glad you did!
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There are a number of disadvantages of vaccines which affect its effectiveness.\n\n \n1. Side effects – Side effects occur from all types of vaccines. These side effects can range from mild reactions, redness and swelling at the site of the injection, to severe reactions like arthritis and brain damage.\n2. Ease of use – Most of the vaccinations used today to prevent disease must be injected into the person’s bloodstream. This procedure must be carried out by trained healthcare professionals. The use of healthcare professionals makes vaccines an expensive procedure and therefore unsuitable for use in the third world. One exception to this is the Oral Polio Vaccine, which is popular in the Third World as well as developed countries because of its ease of administration.\n3. Immunity does not develop in response to a vaccine.- This occurs most commonly after the BCG in certain countries and races. The BCG provides little or no protection to the Negro population against tuberculosis. For this reason it is not widely used outside Europe.\n4. Parents who have their children vaccinated assume that their children are then protected against the disease but this is not necessarily true. For example, Fife in Scotland had a 96% vaccination density but was afflicted by a measles epidemic in 1991/1992. It is generally considered that once an area has a 95%+ vaccination density, an epidemic will not occur.\n5. Vaccinated children who develop measles from the wild strain may not be diagnosed with measles since they do not show the typical signs and symptoms of measles.\n6. Vaccines run the risk of recombination with related wild strains or vaccine strains. The possible consequences and results of this are unknown to date.\n7. Despite a high degree of hygiene, it is impossible to rule out the risk of contamination of vaccines. Animal cells may be contained in the vaccines and these could rearrange our genetic makeup. Also other diseases may contaminate the vaccines causing serious consequences.\n8. The body may develop tolerance to antigens using the same principle seen in the treatment of hay fever and asthma. To treat these, the patient is injected with small amounts of the allergen (pollen etc.) in order to weaken the effect of the allergen.
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If people were better vaccinated, then the influx of diseases wouldn't be a problem.
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Or could it be that the drug companies make more money this way?\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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1)Achieve 100 per cent registration of births, deaths, marriage and pregnancy\n2)Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births. \n3)Achieve universal immunization of children against all vaccine preventable diseases. \n4)Promote delayed marriage for girls, not earlier than age 18 and preferably after 20 years of age. \n5)Prevent and control communicable diseases.
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Of course. Flu shots are purely for the financial benefit of the manufacturers.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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The Medical field is a good source of income and job security. There will always be sick people.  Also, government jobs often medical--they have good benefits.
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- Good health\n -Nicer overall look on school and district\n- Students, teachers and visitors wil feel a lot more comfortable.\n- Safer\n- Better environment around school\n- A good clean environment helps promote good learing!
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To reduce the risk of diseases carried by mosquitos including Malaria and West Nile virus among others.\n\nAlso to avoid the hassle and irritation of the bites.