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Vaccinations are mandated. Why is that?
So that people don’t get sick.
DY, Why do they make employees wash their hands after using the restroom?
LU, actually what you said was that, with regards to vaccination , the benefits are only possibilities and the risks are only possibilities and that you have to weigh one against the other. If you had experienced the polio panic and the difference the vaccine made, you wouldn’t say the benefits are only possibilities
LB, same reason, I guess.
DY, last question please: And why can’t kids come to school with pink eye?
The problem with debating the vaccine issue is that the anti-vaccine people don’t trust the medical professionals (in league with big pharma), scientific researchers (get funding from the government and big pharma), pharmaceutical companies (out to make money) or the government health agencies for information/opinions since they all supposedly have a bias. So that leaves the internet bloggers as a source of information, who “obviously” don’t have any agendas.
When I said the benefit is a possibility, I meant that it’s a possibility in the sense that you don’t know if you personally would necessarily get the flu or polio, etc if you didn’t take the vaccination. Of course, that reasoning doesn’t apply so well to the chicken pox but it definitely applies to the flu (which is what I had mainly been talking about) and to most other things.
And I wasn’t trying to imply in any way that one shouldn’t take the polio vaccine. I was just making very theoretical comments about the reasoning involved in these decisions. My comments were meant purely academically.
Additionally, I hadn’t even been thinking of polio at all – I was thinking of the more recent vaccinations, the ones that were not around yet when I was a kid, and are for things that are either less serious or less wide-spread (such as flu or chicken pox). I had assumed that people who are anti-vaccination are against the more recent ones (such as flu and chicken pox) whose necessity, benefit, and possible risks might not be as clear-cut yet. Are they against all vaccinations including polio and whatever the standard ones are that we all got as kids (those of us born in the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s)?
There currently is a serious outbreak in the New York area of norovirus. It is extremely contagious and spread through contact. A number of public schools have temporarily closed as up to 30% of the student body was sick. Several years ago there was a serious outbreak in a Rockland County yeshiva and ironically, hand washing was identified as one of the causes. How? The virus causes diarrhea and vomiting . Unfortunately in this yeshiva the same sink was used for washing for both the bathroom and making hamotzei. The virus, which can survive on a towel ( the yeshiva used cloth towels ) up to 48 hours, was spread every time a boy dried his hands
Orthodox Jews in LA are in the news now for 20 people infected in a measles outbreak.
Norovirus is a huge reason why I’m iffy about going on a cruise. Is there a vaccine for norovirus?
What is norovirus?
DY, last question please: And why can’t kids come to school with pink eye?
Probably because other kids might get sick.
Pink eye is highly infectious, that’s why. Kids constantly rub it because it itches. Then if another child touches anything’s they’ve touched and then the eye, they’re infected. Inmy office anyone with pinkeye is sent.home immediately
LU, moron is a highly contagious illness that causes constant vomiting and diarrhoea. It usually runs its course in two to three days.
LB -“why I’m iffy about going on a cruise”
You should also be worried about Legionnaires’ disease!
Lesschumras, may I suggest not relying exclusively on autocorrect?
Lol autocorrect! It undermines after you type. Not lesschrumas fault at all.
LU, every year the news has updates about some cruise ship with a norovirus outbreak. Stories of employees getting it and puking in the sink. Then later they use that sink to prepare food.
Hundreds of people now have it. They are quarantined in their rooms for the entire cruise. Miserable. Later when they get off the ship they have quotes about how they missed the best fun stuff and all they got was a voucher from the cruise ship for another time.
That said… I have a friend who loves cruises. I told her that I’m scared of getting sick (and being helpless and trapped in a tiny room at sea). She said that it’s so much fun and not to think about it.
I agree and am deeply embarrassed , although the autocorrect word choice was interesting
I agree and am deeply embarrassed
Nah, don’t be. It’s funny, that’s all.
LC – it’s a good thing that I saw the last two posts before I saw your prior post, otherwise I might have thought you were calling me a moron, c”v :).
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