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

[Jay Weigel]

That's funny, Grace. The last few times I've flown, I've been waved on
through, despite the fact that I didn't pay for the free check thingy. And
I'm only a few months older than you!

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>