Healthcare:

There was an amazing statement in the paper this week made by a mother telling a reporter that the “measles weren’t that bad”. Her 6-year-old daughter had just died from complications that developed after contracting measles.  The unvaccinated child was admitted to the hospital with breathing difficulties, contracted pneumonia and died. The mother also pointed out that she had measles during the funeral, and her other children had measles that weren’t that bad. I’m really fighting the temptation here to use a flippant statement about successful ratios but that seems so inappropriate. Can you count a parent as lucky if only one of their five children dies of a disease that was preventable? 97% of the individuals who get the MMR vaccine do not get measles.  Scientists can prove it. I wish people would choose to believe it.  This is a symptom of a bigger disease ravaging our country.  Many come to almost every topic with preconceived notions about what’s true.  We’re choosing to believe those who support our truth rather than looking for that other perspective and supporting information.  It is literally killing us.