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Applying the anti-vaccine mentality to car seats
LUCY HORNSTEIN, MD | MEDS | JUNE 9, 2014
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/06/applying-anti-vaccine-mentality-car-seats.html
Imagine video of kids crying piteously as theyre buckled into the wretched contraptions. After all, car seats are restraining and uncomfortable. Kids hate them. But parents have been duped into using the damn things claiming it makes their children safer. Pshaw! How could a baby be safer anywhere other than in its mothers arms?
Suppose this idea gained traction. Cerebral palsy is a dreadful thing. Why take the risk? Dont use those nasty old car seats. Besides, dont you know that the doctors who recommend them are all getting kickbacks from the manufacturers? (Less preposterous than kickbacks from vaccine manufacturers. Far more money in car seats.)
Some Playboy celebrity reality centerfold comes out as the spokesperson against car seats. Suddenly theres pushback from new parents who want to decide for themselves what the safest way is to transport their precious bundle. Never mind decades of car seat research. They may not be automotive engineers, but their parental gut feelings are good enough. Besides, no automotive engineer ever had to listen to their baby cry whenever she gets strapped in.
Suich
(10,642 posts)who has convinced her daughter not to vaccinate her 2 children.
It's useless talking to her...it must be true because she read in on the Internet.
Drives me nuts!
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)about homeopathic cures for autism.
Boggles the mind.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Not just of her children, but of all those who will play and go to school near them.
gmoney
(11,559 posts)But it's not a bad analogy...
However, if you don't strap your kid in and he get CP (or more likely, dies in an accident), that won't lead to the whole school getting CP.
moriah
(8,311 posts)The doctor was trying to make her allegory to autism be the least offensive to those with either disorder.
What you're getting at is more like the parents refusing to let children ride in carseats when the daycare bus picks them up (which is pretty damn close to what's happening, people sending their kids to school unvaccinated). The random driver (the random bug, say from a tool who decided to go overseas on a missionary trip unvaccinated) strikes the bus (the school) -- the unprotected children are at more risk than those who had their kids in carseats (vaccinate).
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)Drs. Jim Nasium, J. Ingles McMoneybags and Sax O. Cash have written on the subject
And don't forget Michelle Bachmann is also an expert.
frylock
(34,825 posts)links? you want links?! no, I'm not going to do your research. do you believe everything you hear? sheep. herpa derpa derp.