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

[Sibyl Smirl]

Thanks, Susan!
My favorite pharmacy gives flu shots, and puts up posters for them every 
fall, and the pharmacist, an old friend, can give the injections for 
those, and don't even need a prescription, so maybe they do tetanus 
shots too.  I never even thought of asking him about tetanus, but the 
next time I'm in there I will.  That last "Package Deal" (the modern 
version of DPT, but a different Alphabet Soup name) might even be 
getting close to ten years ago now-- the years are going way faster than 
they used to!


On 9/2/16 8:32 AM, Susan Hagen wrote:
> As Sibyl and Jay noted adults need to keep up with tetanus boosters.
> I try to keep mine within the 10 year range because I don't want to
> worry every time I get scuffed up doing yard work.  My doctor doesn't
> stock it and told me of a pharmacy that did where I could just walk in
> and ask for it.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> 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
>>>
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Sibyl Smirl
I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
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