Comments on: Study: Too Many Adults Skip Vaccinations

Health Officials Say Grown-Ups Are Avoiding Shots That Could Ward Off Suffering

[blazercoach1]

Prayers aren''t just for kids, but far too few grown-ups are bowing their heads, disappointed church officials reported Wednesday.

The numbers of newly offered prayers are surprisingly low, considering how much public attention a trio of new prayers - which protect against selfishness, impulsiveness, and dishonesty - received in recent years.

Yet many seem to have missed, or forgotten, the news: A survey by the National Foundation for Deadly Sins found that aside from lust, most adults have trouble even naming sins that they could prevent with a simple prayer.

"There are not yet very many adults taking full advantage of the great advancements in prevention that have been made in the past few years," said God. "By skipping prayer, people are leaving themselves needlessly vulnerable to soulful illness, long-term suffering and even spiritual death."

Isn''t it frightening how science has made almost a one-for-one replacement for religion? In whom do YOU trust?

[cantshutup]

i agree zemoleman

[cantshutup]

why should we continue to trust the government for anything especially for whatever they want to inject us with!

[Syndicate]

Where do you get them? How much do they cost? If I have to wait in a doctors office then forget it. I hate waiting an hour for the doctor to get to me. BY the time he does all I want to do is strangle him.

[hypnotoad72]

Too many adults can''t afford them or no longer care if they die because of said illness.

Our country is truly in a sad state. Especially when half the news articles claim the economy is in bad shape because no consumer is spending enough... the other half claiming consumers spend too much. That''s not sad. That''s bizarre, Especially when there are only a small handful of entities that run the various media outlets.

Still, praise MSN for pointing out the lie that the average American credit card debt is $9000...

[godofredo29]

To YohnVilson: Yep, you can get the HPV vaccine "off label" and out of pocket. All very legal. Thousands of men have, many for the reason you cited. And, as I said before, HPV doesn''t just cause cervical cancer it also causes cancer of the *** and cancer of the ***. Approval for men "on label" is expected this year.

[andor3]

of course... send money to the pharma companies and they will give you a shot or pill to make your troubles go away. The FDA (funded and staffed by the pharma folks) coincidentally agrees. So do many doctors, also greedy for the pharma handouts.

Interesting that we who they are trying to push this on do not buy it.

[eastwooddane]

I am so sick of the legalized drug pushisng in this country. EVERY 5 minutes a drug is being crammed down our throats on TV. Media push right along with all the drug companies in their stories about vaccines and seem to only get bias opinions and commentary on the subjects. Whatever happened to staying healthy by eating right and exercise and boosting your immune system? No... we are supposed to all live a life on drugs. It is disgusting and I hate that this drug pushing in taking place on our TV''s every 5 minutes and approved by the government. At the same time we are supposed to be teaching our children to stay away from drugs? Don''t let the drug companies brain wash you with scare tactics that you need vaccines and other drugs to stay healthy..

[moleman--2008]

I agree with the posters who are mistrustful of our current FDA and the other agencies "approving" all the goodies we put in our bodies. I no longer have faith in these institutions (or just about any institution--can you say Supreme Court?) that I once trusted. I no longer have any idea what is in the things I eat, drink, and perish the thought, smoke. I am sure if a company could turn fecal matter into tofu they''d try to sell it to us (and CBS and the other media outlets will take their ad $$$--no offense Les Moonves). Face it, as long as we consume like there is no tomorrow we are going to get what we pay for. As long as we tolerate and look the other way with leaders who lie, cheat, and profit (White House), we allow it to filter down through every facet of our lives, because if the big guy can get away with it why can''t everyone?

[neobrian-2009]

Who Do we trust The least ? The Drug Companies ? Or The Government ??

[denn034]

Perhaps, people skip vaccines because, oh, I don''t know, maybe it''s their inability to afford it that does it. You think? Duh!

[antizion]

I''ll pass on your mercury and aspartame laced drugs that are designed to dumb me down and cause me health problems and shorten my life.

A vaccination is suppose to prevent disease not cause it. So people prevent that by not getting vaccinations.

Now what will happen if we really do need to vaccinate the population after people no longer trust the government?

[yohnvilson]

godofredo29 -- are you serious? I didn''t think they were even allowed to give the HPV shot to men (or women outside the age range -- it sounds like the approval was very limited). I don''t have insurance either but I can sure come up with $300 if it would mean there''d be far less chance of me playing a part in someone getting cervical cancer. Just because we men can''t get that doesn''t mean we don''t mind getting HPV. My ex-wife had it before I knew her and I''ve always worried, from what I could find there''s no test available to the general public.

Same deal with the shingles -- I didn''t know there was a vaccine for that, I had it on my stomach in high school and it really hurt (scars are still there). But zemoleman, no insurance doesn''t mean I can''t come up with 150 lousy bucks, once, if it means never going through that again. Having no insurance is an emergency if you get cancer/AIDS/paralysis/schizophrenia/etc. but sheesh, if you have a computer and Internet service then evidently you have disposable income so you can spend it on your health sometimes. Each time I spend $500 or $1000 on a health problem, I think how much I saved by not paying insurance premiums that year. Still ahead of the game.

[godofredo29]

Why do I think that Garbosmed is precisely one of those people I was referring to? (Sorry if this gets printed twice. Blame it one Garbosmed.)

[shanev137]

Most people don''t trust the FDA, so it''s not surprising.

[garbosmed]

Memo to CDC, FDA and Pharma: We are not your lab rats!

[susieq_13]

I agree with Tylenol6...beware of what the government is telling you. These immunizations are not necessary in my opinion. Screw the FDA!

[tylenol6]

I wouldn''t get any vaccines the government is trying to tell you to get. Remember Gov. Rick Perry "demanding" that young girl''s get the vaccine in Texas to prevent some sexual disease or wart''s? Well, guess who stood to make a ton of money from Merck???? NONE OTHER THAN GOV. RICK PERRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON''T DO IT PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!
Besides, there isn''t any oversight with the FDA. One
example is look at our tainted food?????? NO OVERSIGHT.....

[joyous88]

zemoleman;

right on!

[garbosmed]

Here''s the link to the CDC adverse event reporting for HPV/Deaths:

http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?PAGENO=1&PERPAGE=10&SORTING=NONE&VAX=HPV4&DIED=Yes