re: #380 hazzyday

Now I have never thought about it much. But I was on my deathbed at age 7 from measles that developed into pneumonia. Oxygen tent, my parents couldn’t chain smoke around me, and painful shots in the ass twice a day. A vaccination could have probably saved me a lot of pain. The ice cream didn’t even taste good. I still remember not wanting the shots and yelling about it until a nice nurse talked me into them.

That’s just it. I had the mumps, measles, and other what was then known as “childhood diseases” and lived through all of them with no ill effect. What’s with all the caution now? Are children just weaker?