60 Minutes vaccination debate

I am all for vaccinations.. i dont like getting them done or having my children get them for the pain but I would rather endure that than watch my child die of whooping cough or similar..

I did get my boostrix whooping cough vaccination before i fell pregnant and I have insisted that anyone who intends on holding our new baby or who plans on being around us a lot has to have it also.. its just something I am not prepared to risk now that the numbers in whooping cough have climbed.

That silly woman who was on there who is not medically trained made me so angry. She said the two babies on the story who died of whooping cough only died because they had the hep b vaccination at birth. I just wanted to smack her one..

thats just how i felt.. how did you feel watching it?

i am pro choice before anything. i vax my kids and tbh watching the 60 minutes made me very sad, but i do think it was very one sided and they deliberately made it very emotive for one side. the 2 specialists were idiots. surely they could have come up with someone better than those 2.

This thread always gets too heated, I'm not interested in the debate of the subject BUT all I want to say is, I wish hadn't watched 60minutes tonight. I'll never get the image of that baby dying out of my head.

Yes it was very sad... i wish i hadnt watched the one with Alissa Caplain and her partner.. i found that hard to watch..

I missed out on it so I'm waiting for it to be available on the 60 Minutes website tomorrow.

I have an opinion on vaxxing, but as Skippy said, I know how these threads end up and so I wont share it. It will more than likely end up being a major b!tch fest and the mods will close it down eventually.

It annoyed me enough that I had to walk out of the room....I'm all for vaccinating and the rising number of diseases that used to be on the decline makes me glad my 4 kids are all up-to-date with their vaccinations.

As a baby (1971), I had a severe allergic reaction to one particular component of the Whooping Cough Vaccine, so I was wary about getting the booster shot when the DS's arrived, but I did some research and made some calls to clarify if the vaccine was different nowadays and it turned out that the ingredient I reacted to was no longer used in vaccines, so I got my booster shot whilst pregnant with DS2.

Even though I had a bad reaction myself, it never crossed my mind not to vaccinate....but I was a hell of a lot more vigilant than I would have been if I didn't have the reaction, so I watched the kids like a hawk for the 1st 24hrs after each needle just to make sure they were ok.

The so called 'specialist' was an idiot



Thats about all I will say !

I didn't watch it because I think 60 minutes has gone downhill, it's no longer informative and educational and I think it's more like a current affair etc.

I hope nobody is actually taking 60mins as news. They have gone the way of today tonight and are solely sensationalist media. They provide stories that will make ratings - their stories are inaccurate, misleading and their debates are one sided. A proper debate is when both sides are equally argued. This does not occur when one side has "specialists" and the other side base arguments on emotion.

60 minutes is an entertainment show, based very loosely on the truth.

To base an actual opinion on an important subject based on information from these type of shows.......well, that would just be silly. blink

I missed out on it so I'm waiting for it to be available on the 60 Minutes website tomorrow.

I have an opinion on vaxxing, but as Skippy said, I know how these threads end up and so I wont share it. It will more than likely end up being a major b!tch fest and the mods will close it down eventually.

Not all vaccination threads end up as bitch fests. There have been quite a few on here that have been really educational, eye opening and very well discussed by all members involved.

They only go downhill when people start attacking, or assuming. Don't hold back on your opinion because the thread "might" go downhill. Or the mods "might" delete it. People learn through debate, even heated debate and the last thing we want to suppress in the world is freedom of your opinion and discussion about important things. Its how all the great things in this world were achieved! wink

I decided not to watch it once i saw the adds. They do it like OC said for entertainment. I would rather see one where they have medical experts and actual facts on it not just opinion.

I didn't watch 60mins last night but plan to watch it today to see what the fuss is about!

I am very much pro Vaccinating....I know children can still get sick with the said deseases after been vacinated but not nearly to the same extreme!

I'm not looking forward to the first 8 weeks of my new babies life wondering if she is going to catch a silly desease cause some ppl dont believe in vacinating!!!

there is a reason deseases started to decrease....cause a lot more ppl were vacinating....now with a small portion not vacinating these deseases are back on the rise....very frustrating!!!

Yes I watched it, and yes I cried when I saw the raw grief that the parents showed.

I'm pretty disgusted with 60 minutes, that was pure sensationalism. What a moron of a woman they chose to represent the 'other side' and they did it intentionally. That was an ill-informed, pathetic attempt at a properly covered news story and I completely disagree with 60 minutes using something as important as vaccination - which is to do with children's health, wellbeing and well...lives, for cheap entertainment.

I am neither for or against vaccination, as I find the whole topic to be based on far too many variables. I read once that the odds of contracting the disease and having an adverse reaction to the vaccination are the same (in Western societies) but then if everyone stopped vaccinating, surely we'd go backward???


This is the second time I've talked about this show today...I might go complain to them about it. grin