Guest guest Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 Hi Butch! Just a quick note - Small Pox was a killer, but it could have been treated with a less radical treatment than the typical live but weakened small pox vaccine. COW POX. Milk Maids never got the " pox " because, in the ordinary course of their day, they came in contact with similar, but less violent strains of small pox. Cows had this on their udders and such. Some of the very first " vaccinations " were conducted by taking samples from infected people and placing them under the skin of non - infected people. Small pox is a very interesting subject. There are also other diseases that are way more deadly - Ebola, for example, although there have been folks who survived it. Small Pox has been elimated since 1971 in the US and world wide shortly there after thanks to UN vaccination programs going into the remotest and far flung villages and jungles. As for the flu though, it is a rapidly mutataing virus, much like the common cold viruses. The mortality rate (death rate) is fairly low. As is SARS, belive it or not. The mortality rate is under 8% in both cases. I do NOT know the mortality rate from the flu vaccine or ractions to it. There is no vaccine for SARS to my knowledge. Childhood immunizations are in a different category all together. We are shooting our kids up with upto 10 different diseases per session of immunization. I have some information that I have gotten from the PDR and I use it to teach in my classes, I can up load it to the " files " section, if anyone is interested in it. Most of the childhood diseases that we eradicated were in declination anyway, despite the vaccinations. We have better sanitation (garbage is not just thrown into the street to decompse, fester, and rot and all the vermin that goes with it - as a general rule anyway), we have cleaner drinking water (although I won't go into detail about the problems with flouridation), we have better " science " - we can isolate and acutally see what causes these diseases, we have better sewer systems / septic systems, etc. The thing that really gets me is these products like " Thera Flu " that makes folks feel better, so they go on to work, dumping tons of germs everywhere they go. Just because you " feel better " does not make you WELL. The society as a whole could be helped immensely by people STAYING AT HOME when they are sick and keeping their sick kids OUT of public. Another thing is hand washing. Wash frequently with regular soap and warm water. Use paper towels. It kills me that people will NOT wash their hands! This is a funny for you, just to show ya'll how easy it is to spread germs. My eldest son got pink eye about a year ago. When I realized what it was (we were out in public) I brought him home and told him to go to MY bathroom to wash his hands with hot soapy water - twice and I would get him a paper towel. I set the Lysol out to spray the sink to spray down the spigots - this is key - I forgot to pick it up when I got the paper towel. So he finishes washing his hands and I turn the spigots off. I did NOT wash my hands, and aparently, just touching my hands to the spigots then not washing my hands, combined with forgetting to spay it down with Lysol - within 24 hours I had pink eye! The moral of the story is WASH YOUR HANDS. We are lucky, we live out and are able to burn most of our paper products - like the paper towels and tissues, so no one else gets sick. Jumping back to vaccinations for a moment, check out the anthrax vaccine - I do not endorse this site at all, but you can check out vaccines for yourself at www.909shot.com . This is for information purposes only. They do not recommed that folks get vaccines, but they do not recommend against them either. (Did I just breach list rules by posting this? I am sorry if I did) They do advocate that you reasearch and understand what you are doing and the potential side effects from them. Jill Mc. Alabama Butch Owen <butchbsi wrote: Hi y'all, Not an area in which I have knowledge .. Chris, Dale, Markey, Jill and likely many others do have a good grasp of this. But .. can we not say that Small Pox has been eliminated in the USA as a result of a long term program of vaccination? Meet the all-new My – Try it today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 > The society as a whole could be helped immensely by people STAYING AT HOME when they are sick and keeping their sick kids OUT of public. Another thing is hand washing. Wash frequently with regular soap and warm water. Use paper towels. It kills me that people will NOT wash their hands! Okay...I'm going to try not to rant, again. I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail. I need your help on how to tactfully! kindly! lovingly! INSIST that my family (in-laws included) wash their hands. Please! I have issues with people (namely, my husband and in-laws) REFUSING to wash their hands properly, if the wash at all. I try SO hard to instill good hand-washing etiquette in my children, and it is thwarted by them consistently. What makes this worse is, my MIL went to nursing school before she was married. Got married, did a few odd jobs here and there, but basically stayed home on the farm to raise kids. (Good show!) Up until just a few years ago (she's in her early sixties now), she received some sort of certificate that 'certified' her as a nurse. (I don't understand this. I especially don't understand how a 'nurse' could possibly pass a recertification without washing thier hands.) When I was introduced to the family 14 years ago, I was so 'in love' I believe I overlooked the foibles. Like FIL walking straight from the bathroom to the supper table without washing his hands. And *I'm* the B* & ^% who asked him to please turn around and wash his hands just before he got to the table. My intent is NOT to embarrass people into washing their hands...HOW do you guide them gently, when this is a way of life to them? My dh thinks I am absolutely NUTS because I purchased 3 dozen washclothes to put by the bathroom sink. When someone washes their hands, they are to wipe with a clean washcloth, then toss it right into the hamper. My family thinks I'm a nag because I want them to wash their hands with SOAP and water, not just rubbing 2 fingers over the bar and rinsing. My dd (6) knows she is to, at a minimum, suds up her hands and rinse for a whole round of ABC's. My dh blatantly refuses to suds up, and lies to me about washing his hands...and he cooks our meals. His passive-aggressive behavior (he *says* he'll wash his hands!) and his poor example to the kids put me over the edge, not to mention the germs he is spreading. But, if no one gets immediately sick from what he was 'caught' not doing...then he's doing everything right, right? Well, then, I'd like to know why we can be well, then he comes home from a trip to be home for a few days, and leaves again...and we all end up being home sick while he's gone. My best guess is that he's partly to blame. Honestly...I appreciate that the man helps change the two kids we've got in diapers, and that he cooks. But I'd rather do it ALL myself than have to think about all the germs he's *willfully* spreading. Yes...we have young kids and are all spreading germs everywhere. Wouldn't the good example of another parent practicing good hygiene be beneficial? And, maybe I don't understand the physics of men peeing standing up...dh argues that he doesn't have to wash his hands because he hasn't 'touched' anything. As far as I'm concerned, if you walk into the bathroom and touch either the door, knob, light switch, toilet handle, faucet, or use the toilet or blow your nose, you oughta wash your hands. My in-laws (esp. MIL) are snot wipers...they'll wipe snot on sleeves, or on fingers-then-clothing, and think that THEN they are fully entitled to pick up and cuddle my babies. NOT!! My babies have their (usually wet) fingers in their ears, eyes, noses, and mouths because they are kids. I don't want them playing patty cake with gramma until after she's used some tissue, and some soap and water. Grandpa rarely bathes, and we already know that it's not a habit to come to family dinner with clean hands. HOW do I keep from sounding completely anal about handwashing? How do I sound like I'm not lecturing? WHY do I even have to remind them to wash their hands? AM I crazy?? Gettin' there! I would like to find a way to be non-confrontational about hand-washing. I've thought about printing up signs, like " please wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water before leaving the bathroom " . But I *know* (from experience) that they will be disregarded. If I ask them to wash, they'll swish around a little. If I don't ask, they won't bother. I tried sending dd in with MIL to the restroom, so my dd could educate her on how 'we' wash our hands. What did she learn? I dunno...but MIL taught my dd that you don't *have* to wipe your butt after you use the toilet. (Gramma doesn't.) AAAARRGHHHH! Please help me. LOL Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 , Jill McDanal <birthmamajill> wrote: > Hi Butch! > > Just a quick note - Small Pox was a killer, Small Pox has been elimated since 1971 in the US and world wide shortly there after thanks to UN vaccination programs going into the remotest and far flung villages and jungles. > > I guess this kind of hit a nerve with me and I do appoligize for my frankness once again. But small pox has never been elimated in the North American continent. We just do not hear about the people working on gravesites, archoligists and other people that come in contact with old sites, that some are dying of small pox. There have been out breaks in Canada in small numbers but kept under rapes by the government health departments. You ask how do I know this? I have read the report in the newspapers, with the article being in some obscure place and from my children in the medical field. I did not read all the threads on this one but had to point out that history does repeat itself over and over again because we think we are more superior than the people before us. Sadly we always find out too late we are wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 history does repeat itself over and over again because we think we are more superior than the people before us. Sadly we always find out too late we are wrong. Aint that the truth, though? I would like to find a domestic news source that actually gave " the news " and didn't keep us in a frenzy constantly about the " war " / " war on whatever " ! I don't read the paper as a rule, our local papers are not locally owned. They are owned by the other mogul media corporations - ie The New York Times. I would like to get real news from a local source but find I am having to look outside my home country to get a real picture of what is going on domestically. Jill Mc. Alabama The all-new My – What will yours do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2004 Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 First, apologies for taking so long to answer - you know we've had the whooping cough of all things and are just now getting back to some sort of normalcy - I have over 1400 emails in THIS inbox alone to answer! Next, I cannot tell you how to tactfully ask adults who *should* know better than to not wash their hands in the bathroom and kitchen, other than to tell them out right " If, by some chance, you EXPECT to dine with " the family " then the rule is to WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE sitting down for the meal. " Kids are easy at my house it is standard procedure to wash before you eat. We live out in the almost middle of nowhere. We have animals and lots of dirt and nice things like hookworm and tapeworm, so washing is a must. I also am anal about keeping my kids' nails cut so they do not harbor any nasties that way either. Frankly about your husband (or some men in general) not washing their hands after using the toilet they say " I didn't touch anything. " Okay, so you just did what with your penis? You didn't " touch " it to pee and the pee didn't get on your underpants and you didn't touch soiled underpants to urinate or " shake it " afterwords, so what exactly did you NOT touch? Lets face it, if men don't wash after urinating, they probably don't wash after doing other things either. Which, is just GROSS and unhealthy to say the least. I wash my hands in the kitchen ad nauseum. For instance tonight we had chicken tenders or as they say here in the south " Chicken Fangers. " To do this I only can fry a small amout at a time. I cooked 26 of them all together. I soak them in milk - please do not roll eyes or gag until you tried it - then bread them with self-rising flour. Since I can only cook 3 to 4 at a time, I start out with clean hands, bread 3 or 4, put them in the pot to fry and then bread that many more. I wash my hands, stir the pot, do whatever else. When those come out, I then put in the ones I breaded, then repeat the whole process. That is an average of at least 7 hand washings in failry rapid succession. I do not use antibacterial soap, just regular " gel " soap in a pump. We have not had an incidence of a food borne illness ever. The great thing is, my husband DOES wash his hands too. Which sets a good example. You know what they say, to win the war, take out the general. The MIL I would just have to flat out say, since you are a nurse, you KNOW the importance of handwashing. I would get the OSHA guidelines if possible. I would also make sure my kids understand that just because granny and granddad are too dumb or insolent to wash their hands, that is no excuse for them not to. Also, I would fix plates to keep them out of my kitchen and food. That is, of course, just my HO. LOL Jill Mc. Alabama Lisa Nelson <An.Indigo.Rose wrote: Okay...I'm going to try not to rant, again. I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail. I need your help on how to tactfully! kindly! lovingly! INSIST that my family (in-laws included) wash their hands. Please! I have issues with people (namely, my husband and in-laws) REFUSING to wash their hands properly, if the wash at all. I try SO hard to instill good hand-washing etiquette in my children, and it is thwarted by them consistently. Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. Learn more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2004 Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 Oooh, we love that dish at our house!! Have you tried marinating the chicken in buttermilk? When I first got married, I set the hook in DH with the buttermilk marinade fried 'Chicken Fangers', lol!! We're almost on our 17th anniversary :-) Pamela Texas >> SNIP << For instance tonight we had chicken tenders or as they say here in the south " Chicken Fangers. " >> SNIP << I soak them in milk - please do not roll eyes or gag until you tried it - then bread them with self-rising flour. >> SNIP << Jill Mc. Alabama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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