Comments on: This is the Week

By: laura

laura — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:15:31 +0000

Correct as usual, King Friday.

By: joe

joe — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:36:58 +0000

First of all, Tom I hope you had an outstanding birthday, whooping cough notwithstanding. Secondly, if you’re peeved at only 7.1% of Marin that’s probably a pretty good week, peevedishness-wise.

Finally, Laura, while it’s true you want to support your friends’ choices, it’s definitely harder when they impact others, and it’s truly very difficult when they both impacts your children’s health and are based on panicky paranoia and ignorance of the current science. Even at the height of all the suspicions about mercury in vaccines and autism etc etc the final point I remember being made was always, even if there is something there, you’re still at far greater risk if you don’t vaccinate.

By: laura

laura — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:34:35 +0000

You know, Sam, I looked briefly for rates by state but struck out. I found the stats in a newspaper article, but it was specific to our county.

It’s so hard – you really want to support all your friends in their decisions, but when their decisions have an impact on your children’s health, it makes things tricky.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:53:19 +0000

I have a couple of friends who won’t vaccinate their kids, and it just drives me nuts! Where did you get the stats on the vaccination rate in your county, I’d be curious to know what ours is.

You had me going for a while there with your photos- I thought maybe Tom was having a 40th crisis and wouldn’t get off the tilt-o-whirl!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:27:17 +0000

What a crazy week. Thanks for the awesome birthday, and what an incredibly well written blog post.

Right now I’m pretty peeved at 7.1% of Marin, but what’s new. I really hope incidences like this will make parents realize this is a public health issue and not a personal choice.