NJ flu-shot mandate

It's simply about kids not missing school and the school system losing funds over attendance.

Crazy Breed wrote:

bull-fucking-shit!!!!! this is America and we have this thing called the forth amendment and no bureaucrats are forcing any thing on my child.

people are so mis-informed when it comes to vaccines!!

vaccines have a preservative called Thimerosal that contains MERCURY!! FUCKING MERCURY!!! do you know what mercury does to the brain & nervous system??!! you think it's a coincidence that Autism has sky rocketed since they started using Thimerosal?? yeah i know..tests are inconclusive and show that it's not Thimerosal.Till you look further and the the studies are done by the same company that makes the fucking vaccines in the first place!!

how dumb are some of you to swallow that bull shit??

i love how these clown act like they are so progressive because they are pro vaccine and anyone who is against vaccines is either an uneducated buffoon or a religious zealot when it is in fact they who are the uneducated buffoons who tread the line of zealousness.

But do you not realize the bureaucrats, already tell you what to do. Most school districts require you to have a bunch of other vaccines like polio before you can start kindergarten. How is adding a flu shot any different than those?

This is mandating that small babies get the flu shot.

Many think there are links between mercury in shots... and just too many shots in general at such a young age... and the RADICALLY HIGH numbers of children being diagnosed with autism and other sensory integration disorders.

It's just another thing they are saying you MUST put into your child at a VERY young age. Let's face it. Many don't have the option of NOT having their babies in day care centers...

They will give your kid like 3 or 4 or more vaccainations at one time. Kinda crazy (for example... measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chicken pox) ) all at one visit on the child's 1 year exam. Throw in a flu shot now too... why not?

These things can wreak a lot of havoc on such a tiny little body! :eek:

Kel Varnsen wrote:

But do you not realize the bureaucrats, already tell you what to do. Most school districts require you to have a bunch of other vaccines like polio before you can start kindergarten. How is adding a flu shot any different than those?

This is my question exactly. Still hasn't been answered though...

Flu is spread most readily by children. It also hits them more than it does adults and kills them disproportionately more. To me, the flu shot is a no brainer. You care about your kids or your elderly parents and you don't want the family to be deathly sick with the flu and then complications for weeks? Get a flu shot. I remember having the flu repeatedly when I was a kid and my father almost dying, literally, from the complications of pneumonia. I also remember my last bout of flu about 14 years ago. I got it about one week after a flu shot (so it couldn't have been the flu shot). I began to have flu symptoms that then disappeared entirely within three days and were very mild--a low grade fever and body aches. I remember the last flu before that one, some 10 years prior to that. I couldn't get out of bed for over a week, had a fever of 103 degrees for days, wracking body aches, vomited my guts out repeatedly, etc., and then felt lousy for at least another week because of the toll the disease took on my body. Three easy days even when I did get the flu when not completely protected by immunity or two solid weeks + of misery? It's a no brainer. Unless you actually truly allergic to the ingredients in a flu shot, I think you are taking unnecessary risks with your health and the health of those you love if you don't get the shot.

Btw, I teach. I get a flu shot every year. During the time I've been teaching, I haven't had the flu once. My vaccinated students make it through school missing a couple of days for colds or other short-term mild illnesses. My unvaccinated kids, another story. They are typically out up to two weeks, sometimes not because they are still sick, but because a parent is now too sick with the flu to get them to school. That's a lot of learning missed that is quite often never really made up.

Your kids are your kids, so I definitely believe you should make whatever you think the best decision. After my daughter got the flu, she has asked to have flu shots every year. And she's gotten them.

BetterThanYou wrote:

i've never had a flu shot and have never had the flu. same with my wife. same with my mom. same with my kids. one of the guys i work with gets the flu shot every year and guess what...he gets the flu every year.

You people do realize that the general cough and cold and runny nose that you get that makes you feel unwell for a few days a year is not the flu right.

Pj_Gurl wrote:

You people do realize that the general cough and cold and runny nose that you get that makes you feel unwell for a few days a year is not the flu right.

i realize that. i never said my co-worker had a cold. every year, he gets the flu. do you think i'm making it out to be more than it is?

BetterThanYou wrote:

i realize that. i never said my co-worker had a cold. every year, he gets the flu. do you think i'm making it out to be more than it is?

I'm saying, people talk about having the 'flu'. The flu is not the common cold that makes you feel really unwell for a few days. Some of the strains of the flu kill you.