[FLPERMACULTURE] Fwd: New York Trying to Make ALL Vaccines Mandatory!

[denise mooney]

hey u all...

i wish u wouldnt equate the earth being flat, the easter bunny and the tooth fairy w the suspicion that mandatory vaccinations r not 100% beneficial...

it makes those of us who r suspicious about it sound superstitious and irrational...and i dont think that is the case here...

if the way to prevent certain illnesses is to make it mandatory for everyone to get a vaccination, then frankly, that does not sound like the best solution, on a number of levels...

maybe i dont understand how this all works...could someone explain to me how personally choosing to get a vaccine is going to protect other people, who have also voluntarily chosen to get the vaccine too?...

in other words, how am i endangering anyone else but myself (and those around me who have also chosen not to vaccinate) by not getting the vaccine for say, flu?...

i have always been a believer in live and let live (or live and let die)...please explain why it is necessary for the government to force me to get a vaccine i dont want?...

and please excuse my ignorance, if that is how i appear...i do not believe in the tooth fairy or the easter bunny (but i know there is a santa claus, the permaculture elves told me so)...

ignorantly(?),
denise...




Thomas Shelley <tjs1 at cornell.edu> wrote:   Dear Friends--I couldn't agree with Jon's post more.  If a person believes that yoga and exercise and eating fairly well are going to prevent them from succumbing to a pandemic outbreak of a disease from which the average person could be protected by a vaccine then he or she probably believes in the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny as well.  It is unfortunate that there have been instances of preservatives in vaccines causing adverse reactions in some individuals.  However, as we go into the future, especially with accelerated climate change, population grow, migrations of displaced populations, and other factors, there will be increasingly frequent instances of outbreaks of diseases that could be averted with mass vaccination.  I would hope that most of us would see the sanity of vaccination and chose to have themselves and their loved ones vaccinated to prevent such outbreaks from affecting us to the extent possible here in the
 U.S.  My $.02.  Tom

 
 At 05:05 PM 5/31/2008 -0400, Jon Bosak wrote, in part:
 If you want to turn back to a nineteenth-century view of the
 universe, that's your business.  But turning back to a
 nineteenth-century level of infectious disease is everyone's
 business.

 I abhor the intrusion of government into our personal lives as
 much as anyone, but I have to say that running into someone who
 genuinely believes that diseases like diphtheria and tetanus can
 be controlled by "diet and lifestyle" makes me oddly grateful that
 it's there.  Tom Shelley
 118 E. Court St.
 Ithaca, NY 14850
 607 342-0864
 tjs1 at cornell.edu 
 http://www.myspace.com/99319958 
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 "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

 
The World Commission on Environment and Development,
 Gro Harlem Brundtland
 Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987

 
 MY NOTE:  Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as growth per se is not sustainable.  And the term "sustainable" has to mean "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett). 

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