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From: Happy
Date: 07 Apr 2005
Time: 17:30:17
Remote Name: 64.91.162.205
This is a great area. T close to everything & easy to get around.Plenty of parking. Nice neighborhood.
From: How so sure?!
Date: 07 Jun 2001
Time: 17:02:30
Remote Name: 207.172.11.232
I don't own any myself, but I've heard that Birkenstock's are quite well-made and comfortable.
The whole vaccination issue is a very controversial one that seems to raise a lot of emotion. My understanding is that there has been much evidence of adverse reactions to a range of vaccines that is rarely well-publicized. The Health Dept. and M.D.s (including my son's) are %100 pro-vaccination of all sorts and will cite much "evidence" proving how "safe" they all are, as you say.
"They" also said the same thing about DDT, thalydimide, cigarettes, and the melethion pesticides they sprayed in NY and CT last year which have virtually wiped out the lobster population in the Long Island sound. So forgive me if I don't put that much trust in what "they" say is so benign.
The varicella vaccination is only 3 or 4 years old - there is NO WAY they can know what the long terms effects are. It is just impossible. How can they go ahead and mandate statewide anti-chicken pox vaccination based on such little testing?
I know friends who are M.D.s in other states who will not give their kids the varicella vaccine because there has been so little experience with it.
And this for a simple childhood disease we all had. We're not talking about polio or small pox or even diptheria and tetanus.
I was motivated to write to the Message Board because I had just read the article in last week's Newsweek stating that the childhood vaccines we received for the mumps, etc., were starting to wear off on some people because they had never developed lifelong antibodies.
I would rather deal with two weeks of itching and scratching this summer and not run the risk having my son catch the disease when he's 44 and become deathly ill (as you know the disease is much more serious if you catch it as an adult)or infect a pregnant woman.
I really don't think I'm a wacko, but you have a right to your opinon.