"On Immunity" by Eula Biss started out with references to
short stories that intrigued me. How Gods and the parents who believed in those
Gods in those times tried to help their kids fight off death. I especially
liked Achilles story because it has obvious flaws that the parents are
oblivious too. Going into vaccines, I have never been one to believe in
vaccines and neither has my mother but after reading this book I have slightly
opened my mind. I was forced to get vaccines upon entering college yet I was against
them but I now have a better understanding of where people are coming from. I
always especially believed that children’s immune system should develop on its
own because children’s immune systems can fight off a lot. In Bliss’s book, she
talks about how she gave her child a vaccine for Chicken Pox but that at first
she was hesitant. This virus remains in your body and can always become
triggered at any time by stress and lead to shingles. I have never had the flu
virus or the chicken pox vaccine and alternately I have never had the flu or
the chicken pox. I still believe that vaccines should be avoided at all times
because it just beguiles me to think that’s it’s okay to put the virus into
your body, even though it helps your body fight off the infection through your
white blood cells, I don’t believe in it but I see the other side.
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