Rant

Let's start with the whole measles outbreak that has happened. I work at a KinderCare so when the outbreak happened at another KinderCare the one where I work started to take several precautions. Then on Tuesday morning just before class I saw this article about parents in California who are throwing measles parties! They are throwing those parties so their unaffected child can get them from kids who currently have them so that their child doesn't have to get the vaccine for it. Are you kidding me don't they know what having measles can do to them. An unvaccinated child can dies from it! I don't understand why these parents are risking their child life just so they don't have to take their child to get the vaccination. Are they not thinking straight or something. Have they not heard of all the fatal cases involving this infection? I think the parents taking part in those parties are very irresponsible. How would they be able to live with themselves if something happened to their child?I'm not even a parent yet and I know that isn't a very smart thing to do. Why risk your child's life exposing them to that, I'm sure it's not that expensive to have the child get vaccinated instead. These parents really make me angry.