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

[Grace Cangialosi]

I got the plain tetanus, as well. I think they said I was too old for the other, and Medicare wouldn't cover it.

(OTOH, when I flew to Boston a couple of weeks ago, they asked my age and made me take off my shoes, because I was too young for the exemption. I said it was nice to know I was too young for something!)

> On Sep 2, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sib, when I got my last one it was just the plain tetanus.
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>> Jay, did they give you just a plain tetanus booster, that I wanted, or did
>> you have to get the Package Deal shot that I did?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 9/1/16 12:49 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>> 
>>> I cut myself badly with a kitchen knife earlier this year and it occurred
>>> to me that I hadn't had a tetanus shot in probably 10 years, so I hied
>>> myself to the urgent care center and got one. Not fun, and it cost me, but
>>> worth it anyway. Now I won't have to have one for another 10 years.
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 9/1/16 7:43 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> They do, but it's been revised/updated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There are videos of babies and small children with whooping cough on
>>>>> youtube. Terrifying. Not for the tender hearted.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Whooping cough is of concern in the unvaccinated adult immigrant
>>>>> population. There's a television commercial promoting adult vaccination.
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://youtu.be/T_y3HfRGRek
>>>>> 
>>>>> My friends who go to Haiti have been subjectedto boosters and
>>>>> vaccinations
>>>>> for all kinds of illnesses we North Americans think have been
>>>>> eradicated.
>>>>> -M
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wednesday, August 31, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
>>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gracecan at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is diphtheria still around? I know whooping cough is--my doctor thought
>>>>> I
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> might have had it about three years ago, and a co-worker had it. But I
>>>>>> haven't heard of diphtheria in years. Do they still give the DPT
>>>>>> vaccination to babies?
>>>> I don't know about babies, but I'm pretty sure it's been changed.  I do a
>>>> lot of gardening, hate work gloves (except when I'm doing something like
>>>> pruning or cutting back with roses, blackberries, anything thorny, when I
>>>> really need them to not be shredded within five minutes), so I'm always
>>>> getting dirty cuts and abrasions.  The T in DPT is for Tetanus, and
>>>> Tetanus
>>>> lives in soil, and is very scary if you do get dirt into cuts or
>>>> abrasions
>>>> as well as punctures.  It doesn't particularly need a human host to
>>>> survive
>>>> as an organism, so it's not just a matter of being exposed to some other
>>>> human who has it.  The "T" part of "DPT" is definitely not permanent, so
>>>> you need a booster--the rule of thumb is/was every ten years to be safe.
>>>> A
>>>> relatively recent time that I was in a doctor's office or Health
>>>> Department, it occurred to me that it had been well over ten years since
>>>> I'd had a Tetanus shot (The last time I remembered was when my daughter
>>>> (now over forty) was a baby), and I'd gotten a tetanus shot myself,
>>>> because
>>>> I knew I was overdue for one, and just to show her that injections didn't
>>>> hurt that much.  Anyway, for some reason, this most recent time, I
>>>> couldn't
>>>> just get the standard Tetanus shot for a booster, and had to have the
>>>> modern version of the DPT, which was called something else and was for a
>>>> couple of different things besides Diptheria/Pertussis/Tetanus, just to
>>>> get
>>>> my tetanus booster.  Maybe they were just out of the solo Tetanus, or it
>>>> might be no longer available at all.  I believe that it was the same shot
>>>> they give babies now, and Margaret spoke of the revision/update.  Not
>>>> being
>>>> an AntiVaxxer, and never having had side effects from vaccinations, it
>>>> suited me fine to be protected against more things.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Sibyl Smirl
>>>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>>>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Sibyl Smirl
>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
> land of Egypt.
> Leviticus 19:34