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

[Thomas Shelley]

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
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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).

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."        Sioux proverb  
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