- Re: Cause and effect... Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron
on December 3, 2019, 9:10 pm, in reply to "Re: Cause and effect..."
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Maybe so. I'm in two minds about the idea of compulsory vaccination. I do remember the horror of a nurse taking my perfect new born son and sticking a needle in him: injecting him with something I knew nothing about and of which I had not been asked nor consented to. It transpired this was vitamin K and given for quite valid medical reasons, but I felt at the moment that not only had my son been violated but so had my agency as a father. Of course this wasn't immunisation but the common issue was state assumption of control over your child's body and its usurpation of your role as a parent and final arbiter of their welfare. The big matter in truth was lack of information: I knew nothing about K deficiency bleeding...neither did my partner who had no recollection of giving consent to the injection either. I think if we had been consulted & things been explained to us as to the why, when and how I wouldn't have had the same kneejerk alarm and protective anger that I felt at that moment. On the other hand John would point to the inherent problem of misinformation and on that I see there's been a spate of babies in the US taken to hospital with internal bleeding and brain damage: the common denominator apparently being critically low levels of Vitamin K in their blood & parental refusal to have their child given Vitamin K shots at birth: due it seems to the same kind of common fears we find concerning immunisation. |