This is yet another heartbreaking story. And my heart goes out to this family.

But I do think that whether you vaccinate or not is not the issue. The issue is etiquette. People just dont stay away these days when they are sick or when someone in their care is sick. These people regardless of whether they have symptoms or not are carriers, and they are the ones who spread the germs.

Whatever happened to staying home. when theres an illness in your home? And making sure that you were no longer a carrier especially before you come into contact with a baby and or their primary carers?

I dislike that it appears we have a shot for everything, that essentially gives everyone a false sense of security, that they believe that they are vaccinated so that they cannot get sick with that illness or be a carrier. I dislike that people assume that they are unable to carry illness because they never get sick or that they have been fully immunised.

I know of a lady who is taking her 3 kids to a 1st birthday party this week even though one of them has whooping cough at the moment. We will not be going, both girls have had a cough this week and I dont want anyone else to get what they have had, and because I dont want to chance them getting whooping cough.