What Else are We Born With?
This week's Time Magazine has a fairly balanced article about vaccines. One of the pictures, though, shows a mother with her two baseball-uniformed, unvaccinated sons, with this in the caption:
My husband and I believe that we are born with an immune system, and we need to trust that.Fine. We are also born with two legs and two feet that can get us anywhere we need to go. So why do we use bikes and cars and trains and planes for travel? Because we were also given the brain power to enhance the things we were born with. Just because your sons are fortunate enough to have been born into a time and place where the specter of vaccine-preventable diseases no longer hovers over the four out of ten newborns who never used to make it to their first birthday doesn't mean we don't trust their immune systems.