On Reddit, a mom explained why she wouldn't let her daughter's friend come to her birthday party, and why vaccines are so important for everyone in society.
This mom wasn’t being mean when she barred an unvaccinated child from her daughter’s party, she was protecting a kid’s lifeto share their worst experience with anti-vaxxers, a physician’s assistant powerfully and clearly explained how unvaccinated people hurt herd immunity and put the lives of other kids into danger –and her response went viral.
The mom of a seven-year-old girl wrote about how she uninvited a little girl from her daughter’s birthday party after she found out she wasn’t vaccinated. The parent was being far from petty — her daughter’s best friend is in remission after having leukemia and is immunocompromised, which means she can’t receive vaccines.She went on to explain her decision: “I uninvited the dance kid and very nicely explained the situation.
also known as community immunity, refers to the concept that when you get vaccines, you aren’t just protectingfrom dangerous diseases, you’re also protecting the medically weakest members of the community as a whole: infants and kids, the elderly, the sick, and those who might be allergic to components of the shots. In other words, when a parent doesn’t get their kids vaccinated, it’s not just a choice that affects their family, it affects everyone.
Most everyone on the thread backed up the mom’s decision to bar the girl from the birthday party to protect a cancer survivor with immunity issues. And many added other important points related to vaccines, disease, and herd immunity.
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