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I wonder if they make it in big & tall store caveman size?

To each their own. The non Vax crowd are some of the same ones that you will see in their yoga britches at the local farmers market buying raw milk because it is “natural”. There is a reason that Louis Pasteur is lauded as a hero for his life saving techniques to process milk. (He also creates a few vaccines) Progress in science has helped increase the life expectancy of humans. Hard to imagine that someone would not want to enjoy some improvements and protections for life.

Asian flu anyone?

Asian flu, anyone?

Freedumb!!!

Same with an unvaccinated kid. If he identifies as a vaccinated kid, does he still have to get vaccinated?

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Did you ever read The Stand?

One of my all time favorite Stephen King books. Wish they would remake the movie. Off topic here, but did you read his book 11/22/63. Another favorite of mine.

Interesting tidbit for any other statistics geeks:

The average age of pioneer Americans in the mid-1800s was around 36 years. But if you eliminate all deaths of children 5 and under, it jumps up into the late-50's!

I've worked in the reliability field for much of my career, and many items, particularly electronics, follow a "bathtub curve" failure rate: Say you sell a thousand transistor radios. Many of them will fail early on, often upon first turning them on. Once those are cleared out, the reliability rate is at its highest (failures at their lowest), but as they age more and more of them die, and failure rate creeps back up (hence the "bathtub curve"). The initial die-off is morbidly referred to as the "infant mortality" rate! [/geek]

No change. Take it somewhere else.

Good friend of mine has a child the same way. Everything you listed and more, including soy. Every day the kid gets 3 shots minimum and up to five, not to mention has really bad dry skin. They litterally have to oil him up every morning. He has been to specialists in Philly, NY, Chicago and CA. I feel bad for the 6year old who is actually smaller than his 4 year old brother.

I do not want to get into a debate that can get as opinionated as charcoal and politics, but in extensive conversations, it *appears* glyphosates (the active ingredient in many herbicides like roundup) could be a major contributing factor. The hypothesis is that it is accumulating in the soils and concentrating in our food - either in the vegetables we eat or the meat since the animals eat grass/hay which has been sprayed with it. If you think about it - 40-50 years ago, was it around? (Not sure when it came out) Then in the 80-90s you knew a kid here and there with an allergy. Now how many have issues? The rates are on a bell curve lagging just behind rates of its application. The stuff works, that is true. I have stopped using it on my property and once again I have worms, frogs and other little critters.

Take that however you want. I will not comment again on it again, but is something to think about.

My mom is an RN , and she had a few kids that would come over to get allergy shots when I was young.

To take this even more off topic, what should I be killing weeds with on my property if Roundup is a no no?

I love my weed burner for spot-killing weeds in my raised beds during the winter but it's not a very efficient or feasible solution the rest of the year. If I lived in a subdivision with a tiny yard that may be different, but for now 2,4-D and Glysophate are mandatory for property maintenance.

To throw out a counter anecdote... there's been no shortage of worms, frogs and other little critters. Quite the opposite actually.