[30564U]

Rancho Los Amigos was the original Los Angeles County Poor House when it first started and grew into what it is today. A lot of the facility is abandoned now and unused...it shows up on the Internet lot as a haunted insane asylum...which it never was...stupid kids. It's really the very best rehabilitation hospital anywhere. Last I heard, they were gearing up to get some of the soldiers from the wars.

Anyway, I've got a female cousin (well educated civil engineer) by marriage who's all into not vaccinating her three kids. In fact, she's got some oddball thing about them going to the doctor for anything. Her kids are 5, 7, & 9 and none have every been to the doctor...nor have any of them ever had any type of vaccine or even a Tetanus shot. It's beyond me how and educated and intelligent woman (and her equally well educated and intelligent husband) both be so careless and cavalier with regard to their children's health. Because my two girls were adopted from Russia, they were immunized twice for everything...one in Russia and again when they got home. I'm not sure what to think of my cousin...perhaps she's a witch. Not a modern sexy witch...but an odd old fashioned witch of the sixteenth century.

[winvens]

Originally Posted by 30564U ↗

Anyway, I've got a female cousin (well educated civil engineer) by marriage...It's beyond me how and educated and intelligent woman (and her equally well educated and intelligent husband) both be so careless and cavalier with regard to their children's health.

I know, right? It boggles the mind!!

[commondenom]

most anti-vaxxers kids will be fine....until they decide they want to visit any truly backwards places like afghanistan or pakistan or anywhere that western medicine has been shunned by the religious nut-jobs who rule those places...

we will see a rise in polio in the west in 20 years....those fucking idiots will be sorry then

[30564U]

Originally Posted by commondenom ↗

most anti-vaxxers kids will be fine....until they decide they want to visit and truly backwards places like afghanistan or pakistan or anywhere thet western medicine has been shunned by the relgious nut-jobs who rule those places...

we will see a rise in polio in the west in 20 years....those fucking idiots will be sorry then

I heard that in these upper middle class enclaves where the mommy anti-vaccine brigades hide out, the rates of diseases are higher. I've also heard that the anti-vacciners depend on the rest of us to vaccinate our kids so they don't have to. What's the deal with these idiots?

[smnewstead]

Originally Posted by Anom Alley ↗

Apparently the polio outbreaks were real-life horror movies.
Thank Salk & Sabin for the vaccines!

The Salk Google doodle inspired this post!

[smnewstead]

Originally Posted by 30564U ↗

I heard that in these upper middle class enclaves where the mommy anti-vaccine brigades hide out, the rates of diseases are higher. I've also heard that the anti-vacciners depend on the rest of us to vaccinate our kids so they don't have to. What's the deal with these idiots?

As an immunocompromised patient, who cannot have vaccines, I shudder when I think of people who don't want to protect others. Like when people don't care about blowing cigarette smoke in people's faces, except more deadly. Kids suffer when they get the real disease, too.

[smnewstead]

Originally Posted by 30564U ↗

Rancho Los Amigos was the original Los Angeles County Poor House when it first started and grew into what it is today. A lot of the facility is abandoned now and unused...it shows up on the Internet lot as a haunted insane asylum...which it never was...stupid kids. It's really the very best rehabilitation hospital anywhere. Last I heard, they were gearing up to get some of the soldiers from the wars.

Anyway, I've got a female cousin (well educated civil engineer) by marriage who's all into not vaccinating her three kids. In fact, she's got some oddball thing about them going to the doctor for anything. Her kids are 5, 7, & 9 and none have every been to the doctor...nor have any of them ever had any type of vaccine or even a Tetanus shot. It's beyond me how and educated and intelligent woman (and her equally well educated and intelligent husband) both be so careless and cavalier with regard to their children's health. Because my two girls were adopted from Russia, they were immunized twice for everything...one in Russia and again when they got home. I'm not sure what to think of my cousin...perhaps she's a witch. Not a modern sexy witch...but an odd old fashioned witch of the sixteenth century.

That is mind-boggling. I'm sorry to hear this. It will hurt them, and others. It's sad about the parents, too, that they won't engage in simple internet research. No degrees needed. Infinitesimal chance of bad reaction to vaccine versus high chance of disease? What if they have some glycogen disorder or something? What's the point in living in a "first-world" country, if not to utilize its services. I lived in China, and there was a goddamn dried-up kidney on the floor, and they let some kid a few years younger than I was die at the door after a traffic incident because of lack of money. Have you tried to reason with her? You're well-thought-out, even when you disagree.

[smnewstead]

Originally Posted by smnewstead ↗

That is mind-boggling. I'm sorry to hear this. It will hurt them, and others. It's sad about the parents, too, that they won't engage in simple internet research. No degrees needed. Infinitesimal chance of bad reaction to vaccine versus high chance of disease? What if they have some glycogen disorder or something? What's the point in living in a "first-world" country, if not to utilize its services. I lived in China, and there was a goddamn dried-up kidney on the floor, and they let some kid a few years younger than I was die at the door after a traffic incident because of lack of money. Have you tried to reason with her? You're well-thought-out, even when you disagree.

Oops, I thought you said "NOT taking them to the doctor." Everything else still stands. I hope they don't contract something from the doctors' offices because of other patients who also weren't immunized.

[smnewstead]

Originally Posted by Anom Alley ↗

I remember now reading about that Downey facility on google before.

Do not get me started on those Darwin Award candidates known as anti-vaxxers. They're as stupid as the Young Earth Creationists. A friend now in her late sixties remembers her 3 year old neighbour dying from the measles (since the shot wasn't available/in wide use until '70 or so.)

It's interesting, and unrelated, but I studied Judaism as a scholar in Las Vegas, when I was a Boy Scout leader (yes, I'm a girl). Long story. Anyway, while I was studying different types of Judaism, immersed in the culture, with my own cute, pink yarmulke, a rabbi wore this hat on top of his yarmulke, full banana curls, and refused to shake my hang because I possess a vagina. Even congregation services were separated with a wall for women. Right, so he told me that the earth was exactly 5,9xx something years old, exactly down to the ones place. I had to not laugh. I was glad to not have shaken his hand. Didn't wanna catch the stoopid.

[smnewstead]

Originally Posted by 30564U ↗

If I'm not mistaken that photo was taken at Rancho Los Amigos Regional Rehabilitation Hospital in Downey, CA (it's world famous for rehabilitation and research of paraplegic injuries). I grew up near that place...it was where most, if not all, of the really severe polio patients were sent their for rehabilitation...in fact, a few polio patients still go there for regular rehabilitation. When I was a kid, we would tour Rancho and perform community service activities at the hospital. When I was young, there still one or two folks in the iron lungs. What an awful awful existence. I had several friends growing up whose mothers or fathers had lingering effects of the polio outbreak from the late 1940's...what a horrific disease. Too bad there are idiot moms out there who refuse to vaccinate their children. Perhaps if they had the opportunity that I did, and actually talk to someone in an iron lung, they'd quit fucking around and vaccinate the crap outta their kids.

Great background and personal touch. I can't believe you saw them. How fascinating, albeit though saddening. I often feel parents have too many rights....