"ToolPackinMama" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
Quoted message said:If a non-vaccinated kid makes another non-vaccinated kid sick, big
whoop, right? What do you care? Your vaccinated kids are "safe",
right?
A further comment about this. It reflects what can be a somewhat unsavory
feature of alternative medicine , and that is an exaggerated focus upon the
perspective of the self.
That has a certain validity even when at its most self-contained. But
medicine is a profession with much wider responsibilities. It is supposed
to house a body of knowledge that is useful to all, and which is solid
enough to build upon from generation to generation.
Alternative supporters often ignore this perspective.. So long as it
"works" for me; who cares whether it will work for others? Medicine feels
it needs to know what it truly means when someone says a treatment "works",
what the implications of such statements are for others, and what they mean
for the advancement of medical knowledge..
Medicine has also always had a strong public health perspective, ever since
the Romans recognized that building settlements on marshes favored malaria,
and probably long before.
When the well on the High St of Chipping Camden was recognized as the
source of all the typhoid and was sealed over, alternative supporters who
thought they escaped the disease through the ingenious use of natural
remedies would have been marching in the streets with banners: "save our
well".. Never mind any who might lack that knowledge, or who were too old,
young or weak to fight off the disease.
Peter Moran