Limbaugh responds to Dr. Nancy Snyderman's criticism of his vaccine comments: "This whole swine flu thing is political"
October 08, 2009 2:43 pm ET
From the October 8 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' Rush Limbaugh:
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His opposition to the H1N1 vaccine is political, after all.
Vaccinating a lot of people not only keeps those people healthy, but it also prevents those people from infecting other people.
No one who gets the flu vaccine will be contagious. Everyone who gets the flu will be contagious. They'll be contagious for a day or two before they show any symptoms. They'll be contagious even if they only associate with their close family. They'll be contagious for days if they happen to be one of the many people who won't get very sick, or maybe not sick at all, but still have the virus circulating in their systems.
It's the people who might infect others that has forced the health care industry to insist that their workers get vaccinated.
I had relatives that had what they called "hard measles" before the vaccine came out. They got very sick, but were okay eventually - the description that was used was that they were 'climbing the walls' they were so sick. But some kids that got the measles died, or lost their hearing, or got encephelitis or had lifetime problems with their eyes. Vaccination has stopped those complications. That's the reason we vaccinate people, to stop the bad complications.
If I had young kids . . . they'd be getting their vaccine.