Anti-vaxxers have been receiving negative comments from other parents who want to protect their children from life-threatening diseases.
Jennifer Hibben-White said they deserve it after she received a call from a local health center telling her that her son was exposed to measles.
Her son Griffin was only 15 days old. He was too young to have been vaccinated.
Children get their first MMR shot when they are around 12 to 15 months old. Until babies get it, they must depend on their own immune system.
Outraged and devastated, Jennifer shared a powerful message on Facebook and people immediately showed their support.
Jennifer Hibben-White wrote: “This is my son Griffin, and he may have measles.
“On February 9th, I received a phone call from York Region Public Health, informing me that Griffin, alongside my mother and I, was potentially exposed to the measles virus while attending a newborn weigh-in appointment at my doctor’s office in Markham on January 27th.
“Griffin was 15 days old at the time.”
She explained that someone who developed measles sat in the waiting room before they arrived.
“I was then asked if I had had the measles vaccine. I had. Griffin. Griffin had not. Can not,” she expressed.
“And I’m angry. Angry as hell.
“I won’t get angry at or blame the person in the waiting room. I would have likely done the same thing…you get sick, you go to the doctor. I have no idea what their story is and I will never know. But I do know one thing:
“If you have chosen to not vaccinate yourself or your child, I blame you. I blame you.
“You have stood on the shoulders of our collective protection for too long. From that high height, we have given you the PRIVILEGE of our protection, for free. And in return, you gave me this week. A week from hell. Wherein I don’t know if my BABY will develop something that has DEATH as a potential outcome.
“DEATH.”
She also added: “You think you are protecting your children from thimerosal? You aren’t. It’s not in their vaccine.
“You think you are protecting them from autism? You aren’t. There is no, none, nada, nothing in science that proves this. If you want to use google instead of science to “prove me wrong” then I am happy to call you an imbecile as well as misinformed.
“You think you are protecting them through extracts and homeopathy and positive thoughts and Laws of Attraction and dancing by candlelight on a full moon? You aren’t. I PROTECT YOUR CHILD. We protect your child. By being concerned world citizens who care about ourselves, our fellow man, and our most vulnerable. So we vaccinate ourselves and our children.
“You think you are protecting them by letting them eat their shovel full of dirt and reducing antibiotics and eating organic? You aren’t. As an unvaccinated person you are only protected by our good graces. WE LET YOU BE SO PRIVILEGED thanks to our willingness to vaccinate ourselves and our children.
“You know what vaccines protect your children from? Pain. Suffering. Irreparable harm. Death.
“And you would be the first to line up if you had an inkling of what the death of a child feels like. You would be crawling through the streets on your hands and knees, begging, BEGGING to get that vaccine into your precious babies because that is what I would have done, if I could, to save my daughter.
“The fact is, there was no vaccine for her. Not for her illness. And she died. She died at age five and a half, and she is gone.
“And I watch these arguments trotted out on Facebook and twitter citing false science and long discredited“studies” that just won’t stop and Jenny McCarthy quotes and “it’s MY choice” to not vaccinate…and I think…what would you have done if your child lay dying? Would you give them a scientifically proven, safe and effective vaccine and risk the minuscule likelihood of a side effect? Or would you let them go, knowing that at least they won’t develop autism (which they wouldn’t even develop anyway because SCIENCE)?point 465 | 1
“And don’t you DARE tell me that you wouldn’t vaccinate them then. Don’t you dare. You have no idea what it feels like to go through what we went through.
“So, look at Griffin. Tell me why he gets to bear the brunt of your stupidity and reckless abuse of our protection? Tell me.
“Seven more days until I know that my baby is safe. Seven more days. How is your week going, anti-vaxxers?”
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