Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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Some different breaking news is that of the MMR vaccination jabs.
On the one hand you have parents saying they won't be forced to have all the jabs done for there children.
On the other hand you have the medical profession saying we are heading for a measles outbreak.
You then have others saying should these vaccinations be forced because of the seriousness of the outbreak.
It is a debate that will go on and on
Whats your thoughts?????????????
Brian Dixon
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talk about a nanny state,it amounts to bullying big time by useing scare tatics nothing unusell there then.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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Nowt to do with nanny state, its about recognising we could have an outbreak, some would say it was irresponsible for parents not to give there children the jab.
but this debate will go on
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Brian I dont think this is a nanny state one and if it is..then maybe its for the best anyway. The latest talk is... as happens in a number of other civilized countries, is that your child wont be allowed to join the state school system unless he/she is fully immunised to do so. Otherwise he/she could be spreading disease and what have you. This is the recent thinking, and there is some sense in it.
A few years ago a mad doctor, some said he was mad, put people off getting the MMR thing done and introduced a nervous element to already nervous parents. I understand the 'nervous parents' syndrome..arent we all to some degree...but now an upsurge in nasty diseases is on the cards because of this doctors opinion. He has since been discredited.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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paul/kieth,just a gut reaction after all we have to put with in the last 5 years or so.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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Understand that Brian, but sometimes urgent action is rrequired
What annoyed me more than anything was the patronising patriarchal doctor who suggested we should be barred from benefitting from a free education if we failed to get the jab for our kids. ITS IS NOT FREE!!!!! We have oaid for it already and it is not his or anyone elses to withhold. The arguments about the MMR are medical and social, not educational, even given the public health implications around schools. The only sensible outcome from that conversation is that schools are too big and we should be taliing about having smaller more social schools, as education is about more than just learning "stuff", it's also about learning how to socialise and interact.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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yes maybe so but education is better than being forsed to.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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presume you mean forced?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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yep thats the one.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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There was never a question about the sense of the mandatory polio innoculations and look at the pain and misery that has been avoided by its irradication. While I will always believe in freedom of choice there has to be a point where matters of public health take a precident. For that reason i have to support the idea that schools should be free to refuse pupils who do not have the required innoculations. You only have to see how quickly the normal childhood illnesses will spread through a school, precisely because of their socially interactive nature, to realise the dangers presented by those children that have not been innoculated. All schools have to consider the health and well being of all their pupils.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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well said chris, you know wot im in full agreement with your ;last post,
help me!!!!!!
Guest 661- Registered: 16 Mar 2008
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When my girl's were smaller the M.M.R was not around the injection's were all individual one's, and the girl's had the rubella shot in the last year of primary school or first of secondary, boy's didn't get that shot. It seems that it is mostly boy's that seem to suffer with the autism problem,perhaps the answer Lie's with this fact,as a parent I would be very wary of that point now if I had son's that needed immunisation nowadays But I would get them immunised in some form as having had measles as a child it affected my eyesight.
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