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It would be better to hear the stories of people who were unvaccinated and died due to illnesses they could have easily protected themselve against. Unfortunately they can not since they are dead.

In the extremely rare cases of someone dying of something like measles, the media will blast the story out there over and over and over again. So those very few stories are already being told to the masses.

But in the overwhelmingly abundant number of cases where there is vaccine injury (or healthy unvaccinated people) the stories get shot down, ignored, or mocked. So yes, I want the other side of the story to be able to be spoken about.

I'm proud of @synesthesia for speaking out, even though she knew that should be mocked and harassed.

"In the extremely rare cases of someone dying of something like measles"

You are right - why bother about something which just kills 400 kids per day. Vaccines are way worse and kill thousands daily ;)

That is not in countries with proper sanitation, sewage and water systems.
I grew up in the days of measles, mumps, etc and nobody was dying of it (unless they were already very immune compromised and could have died of the flu too.)

However, I hear vaccine injury stories here in North America ALL THE TIME;
including from some of my best friends.
They are NOT lying.

One of my good friends almost died from the MMR shot at age 5. She stopped breathing and had to be revived and was hospitalized for months. Her doctors admitted it was the vaccine.

Children are much sicker today than they were when I was a child. (I'm 48.)
BUT the unvaccinated children that I know are WAY healthier than average children.

I believe what I see with my own eyes.
You can stop wasting your time trying to make me afraid of the measles.
I would not be scared one little bit if my children got the measles.

I wish that you would stop the fear mongering.

"I grew up in the days of measles, mumps, etc and nobody was dying of it "

In 1980 you should have been about 9 years? 2,6 million people died from measles alone that year ;)

Your friend probably suffered an anaphlactic shock? Could be from the vaccine, sure! Really rare though. But that is actually one of the reasons why you should just ge vaccinated when a doctor with adrenaline is around ;)

"Children are much sicker today than they were when I was a child."
Really? What do you mean with sick?
fat? - yes there are more fat kids today - but i guess you don't want to blame vaccines for that. And of course a lot of the overweights get serious health problems.
unhealthy lifestyle? yes

But let us look at the death rate of kids. From 1990 to 2013 this rate dropped by over 50%..

"I would not be scared one little bit if my children got the measles."
Beeing afraid to a healthy extend is one of the things which keep you alive. I just hope that your children have the luck to stay healthy and profit from the ones around who got the vaccines.

If you don't like vaccines - ok. Stupid but ok. But if you say that measles aren't that bad that is just plain ignorance of facts. And a punch in the face of millions of parents who lost their kids to a disease which could be wiped out with vaccines.

I don't mean fat.
I mean asthma, food allergies, auto-immune conditions, learning disorders, autism, ear infections and taking a long time to recover from illnesses.

Measles is good for you! Doctors used to know that children would often have a growth spurt afterwards, or allergies would disappear afterwards, and even in some instances leukemia disappeared after a bout of the measles.
They have even recently injected a HUGE dose of measles into a person dying of cancer, and the cancer receded.

Measles is like exercise for the immune system.

And my mom never even thought of taking any of me or my sibling in to the doctor for measles or mumps.
You are just using scare tactics again and I'm getting tired of it.

p.s. What you are saying is a punch in the face to the thousands upon thousands (perhaps millions) of people who have children that have died or become permanently injured from vaccines. Those lives matter and I am speaking up for them and will NOT stop.

"Measles is good for you! "
Wow, you are even more ignorant than I thought. One of the most deathly viruses in the last century is supposed to be good. Interesting attitude.

"Measles is like exercise for the immune system."
And jumping from 30 feet is good for bone developement?

This is my last post directed to you, it just makes me sad how ignorant you are. I can understand people who are scared of vaccines or dislike them due to personal history/experience. But saying that measles are good is just so deeply stupid. I can't even describe how sad I feel right now.