15-month-old Aarav Singhatia is comforted by his father Sandeep Singhatia, left, while nurse Kathy Kenny gives him a MMR immunization shot at the Boulder Medical Center in Louisville, Colorado. (Mark Leffingwell, Daily Camera)
Re: “As measles cases near 100, parties in the vaccine debate take partisan shots,” Feb. 1 news story.
According to Jack Wolfson [an anti-vaccine doctor in Arizona], I’m a ‘bad mother’ because I elected to safely vaccinate my children against terrible, yet preventable, diseases. I also have my children wash their hands before eating, and I cook their food to prevent bacterial infection, even though these things are ‘a part of the natural world.’ As a bad mommy I make them brush their teeth twice a day and even, on occasion, have them floss, despite the ‘rights of our children to get’ preventable childhood illnesses like measles, mumps and cavities. I even make them bathe and require them to change their underwear on a somewhat regular basis, something that my 8-year-old seems to believe is against the natural order of the world. And when it’s cold outside, I ask them to wear a coat and zip it, all because I’m an extra bad mommy!
Joanne Scarbeary,Denver
This letter was published in the Feb. 4 edition.
Parents who fail to have their children immunized should be charged with child abuse. Period.
Bill Butler,Longmont
This letter was published in the Feb. 4 edition.
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