Allow parents to decide

In response to Daniel Dawson’s editorial (“Parents must be informed - and trusted”), thank you! What great parents you and your wife are!

As children, our parents allowed us to be exposed to children with measles and chicken pox (on purpose). We got the measles and chicken pox both and got over them. Our immune systems were strengthened and both my brother and I survived without ill effects.

My husband and I chose not to vaccinate our son for school and he went all the way through college that way. When he chose to join the military, they “caught him up with vaccinations” and he was sick as a dog for two weeks!

My point is … each person’s body is unique. If parents such as the Dawsons observe negative reactions such as described, they are being responsible parents by discontinuing future vaccinations.

I have always wondered though, for those who automatically choose to vaccinate, if you are so sure your vaccination works, why are you worried about me? In other words, if this vaccine you choose to take “protects” you from the malady as you are led to believe, then you have nothing to worry about if I don’t get vaccinated. Right?

Barbara Z. Cook

Spokane