I 100% agree with this, Vaccination is not just about yourself but also proteching the greatest community. Diseases like Polio, TB, and the Measles are far less problematic due to the positive contribution vaccine has made on safeguarding our community. We are very lucky to live in a country which has available the positive effects of modern science. Also most Australians now of childbearing age have not been witness to the effects of these terrible diseases so they haven’t see the positive impact vaccination has had on our lives.

Nurses see so many dangerously ill patients as a result of preventable diseases. I know a lass who was born overseas and contracted Polio. She has to wear calipers on her legs to be able to walk at all. What most people don’t know is that later in life polio sufferers suffer other effects from it.

What a wonderful post – about time someone stood up and put the anti-vaxxers in their place. Go girl. I am definitely behind what you are saying and agreeing with it wholeheartedly.

Very well put.

I think the issue is that it’s not the kids fault that their parents don’t vaccinate them. Whilst I don’t agree with anti vaxxers and don’t want their sick Kids around mine I don’t think they should be punished for their parents ignorance and wrong doing.

Well said

I tend to agree with her

If any of the anti vaccine brigade were to ever see a little one with the diseases they don’t want their children vaccinated for they might change their mind. The younger generation have never witnessed the diseases so have no clue as to what it is like to not have your lirlttle one able to breathe from diphtheria or to watch the effects of tetanus or polio. Or to try and bring down the fever of a little one suffering mumps, chicken pox or measles. People who are not immunised can so easily infect infants who are not yet old enough to be immunised and also frail aged. Whooping cough is so hard to listen too and be helpless to stop. Smallpox had not been. Threat for a very long time. Would a woman. In earthly stages of pregnancy want to be exposed to rubella and the damage it can inflict upon her unborn baby? TB is still life threatening as well. I cannot imagine not immunising to protect little ones from such suffering. The parents of unvaccinated need to home school and keep their children isolated from the rest of humanity.

Iam with the vaccine as it’s not fair for kids to be sick and give it to others

Some of these preventable diseases can be illliminated with vaccination programmes but on the other hand I do understand why people are hesitant. Personally I’d rather vaccinate than run the risk.

I don’t think you can see it this simple black and white, I don’t agree with this lady.

Hits the nail right on the head! Good on her!

I feel sorry for the children of anti vaxxers who really don’t get a say in what happens to them.

The problem is that it isn’t the bat shit crazy anti vaxxers that suffer. Its their innocent children who get sick due to their parents ignorance and its not fair to deny those kids medical attention when they could be very seriously ill. I’d like to see parents of unvaccinated kids slugged a massive extra medicare levy. If they are going to put pressure on the system at least make them pay for it.

100% agree. The anti vaxxers are scarey with the stance they take, affecting not only their lives but their children’s lives and the children who mix with their children. It’s a domino effect….

Oh that’s good! I’ve never really thought about itty like that, and it is so true

So scary to have a young baby when all these preventable illnesses keep making a resurgence.