All the vaccinations mentioned in the video are traditional vaccinations. You get a shot and you get immunity perhaps for life or at least for 10-12 years, except for flu shots. Those are 50% effective in good years, for one year, because the virus keeps mutating. I keep getting them; my husband refuses, since every other year he gets really sick following the shot. We both got a nasty virus in December — but I’d had the flu shot. Go figure. Maybe after decades of getting annual flu shots I’ll have them all covered, although I doubt it.
Parents who refuse these traditional vaccinations for their children, and boosters in middle school, without valid medical reasons are not doing their kids any favors. And adults who don’t keep current on TdaP (or just tetanus/diphtheria) are at risk for nasty surprises. Same for those of us over 50 who had chicken pox as children. I’ve seen awful cases of shingles, so get the shot, even though the second in the series is doozy.
Reasonable people can differ about the new mRNA shots. Experience shows they impart a diminishing period of immunity with each successive round of shots, and the repeated injections for the same virus may actually damage the immune system response. (Note that the annual flu shots are for different virus profiles every year.) And mRNA shots, for COVID and for some others which have since been introduced, all seem to carry a much higher negative side effect rate than do traditional vaccines. There’s an mRNA which prevents recurrence of melanoma. If I had melanoma I’d get the shot. Other mRNAs are of more dubious value. It’s a good idea, needs more work.
Kudos, Kathy! Lots of info here.
You bet, Judy!
Vaccines save lives! They are indispensable.
Agreed, tagpipspearl!
Shouldn’t need belief but evidence. The evidence is clear. As day.
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Me, too! J
All the vaccinations mentioned in the video are traditional vaccinations. You get a shot and you get immunity perhaps for life or at least for 10-12 years, except for flu shots. Those are 50% effective in good years, for one year, because the virus keeps mutating. I keep getting them; my husband refuses, since every other year he gets really sick following the shot. We both got a nasty virus in December — but I’d had the flu shot. Go figure. Maybe after decades of getting annual flu shots I’ll have them all covered, although I doubt it.
Parents who refuse these traditional vaccinations for their children, and boosters in middle school, without valid medical reasons are not doing their kids any favors. And adults who don’t keep current on TdaP (or just tetanus/diphtheria) are at risk for nasty surprises. Same for those of us over 50 who had chicken pox as children. I’ve seen awful cases of shingles, so get the shot, even though the second in the series is doozy.
Reasonable people can differ about the new mRNA shots. Experience shows they impart a diminishing period of immunity with each successive round of shots, and the repeated injections for the same virus may actually damage the immune system response. (Note that the annual flu shots are for different virus profiles every year.) And mRNA shots, for COVID and for some others which have since been introduced, all seem to carry a much higher negative side effect rate than do traditional vaccines. There’s an mRNA which prevents recurrence of melanoma. If I had melanoma I’d get the shot. Other mRNAs are of more dubious value. It’s a good idea, needs more work.
Kudos, Kathy! Lots of info here.
You bet, Judy!
Vaccines save lives! They are indispensable.
Agreed, tagpipspearl!
Shouldn’t need belief but evidence. The evidence is clear. As day.