The nurse practitioner I work with was kind enough to share this story with me...
M.W., the mom of a baby girl I recently delivered, and opted not to vaccinate yet, brought her to a local clinic due to acute illness. Upon hearing that baby girl had not yet been vaccinated, there was a rush to provide masks and condemning lectures about the dangers of not vaccinating. Nasal swabs were taken, surely to provide vital bits of accusatory evidence to the health department.
"We just had 2 confirmed cases of pertussis..." she was told disapprovingly. "In VACCINATED children!!!"
M.W. apparently sort of stared and laughed at the same time.
Does anyone else get the irony of this? Can any half way intelligent person seriously get all fired up about not vaccinating and then make that statement without pausing a moment to think how ridiculous they sound?
M.W.'s baby girl does not have pertussis, nor does the rest of her family, merely the latest viral upper respiratory infection to make the rounds 'round these parts. Her cough went away after a few days, and she grows infinitely cuter by the second...
M.W., the mom of a baby girl I recently delivered, and opted not to vaccinate yet, brought her to a local clinic due to acute illness. Upon hearing that baby girl had not yet been vaccinated, there was a rush to provide masks and condemning lectures about the dangers of not vaccinating. Nasal swabs were taken, surely to provide vital bits of accusatory evidence to the health department.
"We just had 2 confirmed cases of pertussis..." she was told disapprovingly. "In VACCINATED children!!!"
M.W. apparently sort of stared and laughed at the same time.
Does anyone else get the irony of this? Can any half way intelligent person seriously get all fired up about not vaccinating and then make that statement without pausing a moment to think how ridiculous they sound?
M.W.'s baby girl does not have pertussis, nor does the rest of her family, merely the latest viral upper respiratory infection to make the rounds 'round these parts. Her cough went away after a few days, and she grows infinitely cuter by the second...
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