AGE OF AUTISM: MMR: It’s ALL or NOTHING! Say goodbye to choice..
Your choice to work with your pediatrician on safer vaccine schedule has just received a very large blow. Merck and Co. has decided to take away your option of separating the MMR, instead of getting the whole shebang at once. Forget those who may be predisposed to not handling 3 viruses at once; you know the weak, the infant who may need a bit more time. What if they are unable to take one of the viruses due to allergy of an ingredient, but have decided to go ahead with one or both of the others? Well too bad, allergy or not you have lost your right to choose. It’s now, all or nothing.
Merck has removed the option to split the MMR into it’s three components. Now you get all three at once, or none at all.
I’ve bitched and moaned about vaccines before. I don’t feel like doing it now. I just wonder, why remove a parents choice to get 2 out of 3 or 1 out of 3 in the belief they will at least do that? I mean, looking at it from a vaccinating parent point of view? I am not a vaccinating parent. I have an autistic child. I stand behind my decision with feet firmly planted in position.
What if I was the parent of a child with life threatening allergies? What if my child was alleric to product B but not A and C? I am fucked out of luck because I wont risk their life delivering A, B and C. Aren’t A and C better than nothing?
I just don’t understand. I am the last person to push vaccines, but I am the first to acknowledge the good they have done for us as a people in the past, why take away choices in the future?
