The problem is that recent government decision to pay the family of the girl in Georgia who developed autism after getting vaccinated. Her case is exceedingly complicated, but of course the news stories don't really get into that, so it's dumbed way down and ends up being ammunition for the anti-vaccination cartel.
If it wasn't that, though, it'd be something else. Every study done about childhood vaccines, no matter what the actual subject matter, will be misreported somewhere in a way that the anti-vac crowd can seize on and say "SEE!??? CONSPIRACY!!!"
Great.
"No, yeah...thanks for the spiffy memo in re: my overwhelming goddessnessisity, Boss Guy, but you know what's really a gift that keeps on giving?
TIME!"
Gods, I hate your boss sometimes, Aims.
Anyone who wants to read my paper on autism and vaccinations, let me know. I'd be more than happy to share.
And I'm irritated and it almost negates the awesome letter Boss gave me this morning about what a great job I did on Saturday.
The key word here being SATURDAY. What bullshit is that - you work a weekend for him and don't get comped for it?
You know, it's nice to hear that we won't be having a tornado/fire drill today after all. But I'd feel a whole lot better about it if I'd known we were going to have it in the first place.
you work a weekend for him and don't get comped for it?
Turns out? I'm salaried. Didn't know that until last Friday. I get the satisfaction of a job well done.
And, with Allyson's Salary and Internets Math, I've added 15 minutes of effing around to the time I was already alotting to compensate for my woeful underpaidness.
My mom got polio after the polio vaccine had been invented; her parents did not understand/believe in the good of the new fangled (yet hundreds of years old) concept of vaccines. Because of that, I decided long ago that I'm Yay!Vaccines, in spite of possible bad reactions, up to and including autism. Of course, it is a relief to be a little more sure that vaccinating any child I might have will not cause autism.
Alpha-bits.
By the way, since I see we're still on food a bit, I went shopping and had two Reuben sandwiches for dinner. And they were wonderful.
Daniel bought some salted-up brisket. When we get around to cooking it up (in the crockpot, changing out the water several times), I shall have to get some rye bread, sour kraut, swiss cheese, and Thousand Island Dressing.
we had one of those viruses over here for a couple days where she only got the fever at night - and during the day she was active and fine.
Her fever is back to 100 now, but she's running around like normal. I've convinced her to watch MORE movies and since she's normally limited to an hour a day, she's happy.
re: the vaccines
I must admit that as someone who has done the research and vaccinated Ellie, that case in GA stills freaks me out on a non-intellectual level. Frisco got his first shots last week and even though I *knew* he would be fine, I was still nervous.
My midwife, who I otherwise adored, kept telling me rather proudly how her daughter doesn't get her kids vaccinated. As mentioned above, I think it comes from people never having seen how awful these diseases really are. I mean, I suspect in the 50s if people had been told, "This vaccine will prevent polio but there's a .1% chance your child might have autism," people still would have done it.
