[Magdalen] Federal court backs law removing religious exemption from vaccinations.

[Marion Thompson]

I had smallpox vaccinations, but I have no scars. Mom certainly made 
sure I had all the shots available, as I did in turn for my own kids.  
Whooping cough was an awful thing.


On 8/31/2016 6:26 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Exactly, Marion. My mother nearly died from whooping cough when she was 2.
> She didn't remember it, but her mother apparently told her in graphic
> enough detail that she made damn sure we got every vaccination we were
> entitled to right on schedule. I sure do remember her fretting because my
> smallpox booster at 5 didn't "take", and having to be reassured by the doc
> that it was because my immunity was already so strong. (I don't have a scar
> from my baby vaccination either, weird.)
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Diptheria and whooping cough carry off young children.  Now we have
>> vaccinations to keep them safe and people today, never having experienced
>> these killers, dismiss the very real threats to their children's lives and
>> refuse to take these simple precautions.
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>>
>> On 8/31/2016 10:57 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
>>
>>> When my Auntie's mother was pregnant with her (in 1888),
>>> she lost two beautiful daughters (age 4 & 6)
>>> in the same night
>>> to diphtheria.
>>>
>>> Not surprisingly, Auntie never bonded with her mother, who was in a
>>> crushing depression.
>>>
>>> There was a time when these words meant something very real:
>>>
>>> You shall not be afraid of any terror by night,
>>> nor of the arrow that flies by day;
>>> Of the plague that stalks in the darkness,
>>> nor of the sickness that lays waste at mid-day.
>>>
>>> -M
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, August 31, 2016, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jay.weigel at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Heck, I remember BEING quarantined for measles and mumps (possibly rubella
>>>> too, although my recollections are a little foggy and run together) in
>>>> that
>>>> awful year
>>>>
>>>>