Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Vaccinations, anyone?

In the WaPo today is an article about the whole vaccination issue and why so many school children didn’t have the required vaccinations by the time school started. Here’s a gem:

This time, Mazyck said, the reason for spotty compliance has a much more prosaic cause: Parents have said they had too little time and too much else to do. (WaPo, January 9, 2007).

You know, I don’t recall my parents ever making that excuse, because, wait a minute, my parents 1) had more than two brain cells to rub together and thus 2) understood their parental responsibilities vis-à-vis protecting their offspring from dangerous diseases. Clearly neither aspect is present in the referenced “parents.”

I have several thoughts, but I'll concentrate on one for your consumption: if you can't be bothered to immunize your children (you know, those little humans you claim to love so much?), perhaps you shouldn't have hatched them in the first place.

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