Vaccinations

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Originally Posted by 350RRC

Checked with my sister............

My father went to the CDC in the US for the AIDS thing on behalf of the Vic gov, not Federal.

Apologies for that.

Maybe you'd like to assist with any thing else.

As some additional info..........

If you're near Wagga in NSW heading south you might pass through a place called Urangeline East. Really just a cross roads (Pleasant Hills Rd goes off to the east).

My maternal grandfather was born in Lockhart and raised in a bark hut on the sw side of the intersection. Later on a house was brought there from Rutherglen by dray over the Murray......... remnants still there.

His sister Celina contracted polio somehow. Pretty bad.

The local community built a school across the road from the old house to make it easier for her and also for the family to carry the 'burden' which included a polio specialist in Sydney.

The school is no longer there, but there is a plaque on the east side of the N/S road that details it's existence.

If you go to Lockhart there is a museum that has a full body calliper that had been worn by a sufferer in the day, truly gruesome.

cheers, DL

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Your prejudices are sixty-eight years out of date. I think you owe the innocuous religion an apology.

A: There is no Kingdom Hall in Nimbin.
B: Jehovah's Witnesses do not oppose vaccination on theological grounds. This denomination originally denounced vaccination, but revised this doctrine in 1952. An article in a recent issue of the church's newsletter promotes vaccination to avoid infectious diseases.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Your prejudices are sixty-eight years out of date. I think you owe the innocuous religion an apology.

A: There is no Kingdom Hall in Nimbin.
B: Jehovah's Witnesses do not oppose vaccination on theological grounds. This denomination originally denounced vaccination, but revised this doctrine in 1952. An article in a recent issue of the church's newsletter promotes vaccination to avoid infectious diseases.

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OK, sincere apologies for that bit. Its an old quote.

What I wrote and when it was written was a point in time and at the time there was an irrational objection to vaccination from, lets say .......a destination.

I have a couple of really good friends who are Witnesses and can cope with me no probs.

Interesting history you've provided re: vaccination. Happy to be called on that!

cheers. DL

Your apology is appreciated by me. My interaction with Jay Dubs is limited to a family I went to school with and the occasional interruption to my Sunday morning bliss but, I have always found them to be polite, respectful and non-hypcrietical, they practice what they preach.
I found it hard to believe that JWs were theologically opposed to vaccination, so I searched and my comments are cut and pasted from the net.
It is important that we don't attribute this type of information, wrongly to any group or individual.
Again, thank-you for the correction.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Your apology is appreciated by me. My interaction with Jay Dubs is limited to a family I went to school with and the occasional interruption to my Sunday morning bliss but, I have always found them to be polite, respectful and non-hypcrietical, they practice what they preach.
I found it hard to believe that JWs were theologically opposed to vaccination, so I searched and my comments are cut and pasted from the net.
It is important that we don't attribute this type of information, wrongly to any group or individual.
Again, thank-you for the correction.

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I actually told a surgeon I didn't want blood when I was having a rib taken out years ago....... that's another story.

cheers mate, DL

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Originally Posted by 350RRC

I actually told a surgeon I didn't want blood when I was having a rib taken out years ago....... that's another story.

cheers mate, DL

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You've given creation to a new gender? :eek2:

Unwittingly I did.

Unfortunately since, a new 'disease' prevailed itself upon the the world........... the issue of toe curling.

This problem has become so serious so that there are now 9 billion people engaged, about to be engaged, were engaged in researching this curious disease.

DL

I remember as a kid at school a girl with leg braces due to polio and the fear we all had of contracting this debilitating disease.

At todays point in time I wish I'd known about the vaccination for shingles.....am sitting here in the recovery stage of a shingle attack.

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At todays point in time I wish I'd known about the vaccination for shingles.....am sitting here in the recovery stage of a shingle attack.

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Free at 70 to 75

I am terrified of Shingles as a friend had to have one eye stitched closed for 6 months and has permanent disability . About one week after my 70th birthday I lined up. I had Chicken Pox as a child.
You can get under 70 but it costs $200+
Regards PhilipA
BTW I learned something I didn't know at the doctors and that is Shingles only attacks one half of your body. Hence my friend with one eye stitched up.

For what it is worth, I got shingles despite being vaccinated a year before - but it was not near as bad as the first time I had it before the vaccine existed. There is a new vaccine introduced about a year ago that I understand is more effective. I think it is now available in Australia, but I am not sure.

They won't administer the vaccine whilst an attack is underway but there is a Shingles specific antibiotic tablet available. The catch with the tablet is that treatment must begin within 3/4 days of an attack commencing.

Yep...I'm over 70 so will be lining up for the free vaccination. If I'd know about it I would gladly have paid the $220 for the vaccine when in my 60s due to having had chicken pox when I was a kid.