Something silly and sort of scary for a Sunday morning.
I (as Mira Grant) was asking to put together a list of potential pandemics for Buzzfeed. I like anything that gives me an excuse to wallow in delicious virology, so...
My sire was an anti-vaccine nut, who got a doctor to go along with this and write a "no, really, it was medically necessary not to vaccinate her; let her go to college anyway" letter. (This letter also prevented me from voluntarily getting vaccinated for measles when there was an outbreak at said university; I didn't catch it.)
I eventually did get vaccinated -- as I wished to have a kid and, y'know, MMR vaccines are kind of useful there, and why not do the rest while I'm at it? -- but apparently the doctor contacted... the CDC? And they said, "Eh, don't bother with the polio vaccine; just make sure her kid gets a killed-dose vaccine and not a live one."
I think they didn't polio-vaccinate my kid, either, it turned out?
So I will just be sitting over here making the D: face!
November 9 2014, 19:25:20 UTC 2 years ago
My sire was an anti-vaccine nut, who got a doctor to go along with this and write a "no, really, it was medically necessary not to vaccinate her; let her go to college anyway" letter. (This letter also prevented me from voluntarily getting vaccinated for measles when there was an outbreak at said university; I didn't catch it.)
I eventually did get vaccinated -- as I wished to have a kid and, y'know, MMR vaccines are kind of useful there, and why not do the rest while I'm at it? -- but apparently the doctor contacted... the CDC? And they said, "Eh, don't bother with the polio vaccine; just make sure her kid gets a killed-dose vaccine and not a live one."
I think they didn't polio-vaccinate my kid, either, it turned out?
So I will just be sitting over here making the D: face!
November 9 2014, 23:10:52 UTC 2 years ago
November 10 2014, 03:43:30 UTC 2 years ago