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Momtezuma Tuatara
03-03-09, 04:42 PM
So lets see what the "hooks" are in this one. First one, pretty obvious...

sorry about the underlinings,... I did that before I thought about scanning it.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f71/Angladrion/Elocal32009.jpg
magical1
03-03-09, 07:56 PM
Susan Hatch and Karen Jones... ahhhh yes the faces of people I would hand my children over to in TRUST... NOT.

Sounds pretty shallow but seriously these two look more like mug shots. Despite the fake smiles. :confused:
FrangipaniRose
05-03-09, 03:05 PM
If that's a fake smile from S. Hatch, a scowl must be able to knock one dead!
Momtezuma Tuatara
12-03-09, 01:05 PM
Moving away from commentary on smiles, analysis of the content starts with a massive lie:
around 75% of those who develop whooping cough before the age of 6 months require hospitalization

To give that figure, you have to know the total numbers. I've known lots of babies younger than 6 months who had gone through whooping cough, and not one of them landed up in hospital.

But then, they wouldn't, would they, having mothers who know how to treat it properly.

they also say that children under 1 year, hospitalised, have a 1 in 200 chance of dying.

Okay, so lots of New Zealaand babies under one get whooping cough all the time. FAR more than 2000.

In the last nine years, there have only been four deaths.

Does that mean, only 800 cases of babies under one year, have been admitted to hospital with whooping cough. I think not.

Their statistics have been pulled out of a hat.

And the other underlining I put there was the old hoary that vaccination always makes the disease less serious. Which is rubbish. I've seen vaccinated children have far worse chickenpox than our unvaccinated children had, and when our kids had whooping cough, out of 70 something children in that practice, 68 were vaccinated and our two were not. Our two were the least affected; the only ones NOT treated with antibiotics, and never lost any weight, which surprised their doctor.

What that showed me is that mothers who vaccinate their children often have no idea how to manage illnesses competently. And since management is often what keeps disease mild, that's the key, not a vaccine.