A LETTER TO MOM TO EXPLAIN YOUR DECISION

Moms make 95% of medical decisions for the family so tools to explain your decision to your mom may be helpful. 

Mom, I know that my decision to postpose the children’s vaccination will be very hard for you to understand.  However, it is simply good science.  Your initial reaction may be one of fear and panic.  You may fear they are going to get sick if I don’t hurry and get them vaccinated.  Don’t worry because the opposite is true.  They not only won’t get sick, they will stay healthy.  Did you know vaccinated children are statistically 12 times more likely to suffer from illness than unvaccinated children.    Unvaccinated children get sick a fraction as often as vaccinated children. Unvaccinated children walk before vaccinated children. Unvaccinated children talk before vaccinated children. Unvaccinated children don’t suffer from autism. Unvaccinated children don’t die of SIDs. And the list goes on and on and on.     I am sure you would agree with my decision based on the above, but likely question the my facts. This is so well documented that it is shocking more people don’t act on this.  The good news is that millions are refusing to vaccinate.  And like them, I also will not sit by and let my children, your grandchildren, be harmed on the altar of this ridiculous corporate tradition.  Ask the typical family doctor about the danger of vaccinations and they change the subject.  Instead of having a discussion about health, they talk about policy; needing vaccinations to be allowed in school.  Ask if they have done the research and they tell you not to worry, but they provide no real facts. Mom, you taught me not to give in to peer pressure and I take that seriously.  The only argument to vaccinate that I have been given by my doctor is “because I am supposed to”.  Even the threat that children cannot enter school without vaccinations turns to be untrue  –  a scare tactic.   I found exemption forms on-line at www.vaccinechoices.org and www.optkidsout.org. I have filled out the forms and will encourage others to do the same.   Mom, thank you for caring but I ask that you, too, talk to real doctors, real nurses, and real scientists who actually care about and study facts.  Love, Your Daughter.