whooping cough

[monster]

I had whooping cough, it's not fun. And I was immunized. My sister only had half of the immunizations and did not get it as badly as I did. But maybe that's because I was asthmatic and she wasn't. I remember it vividly though. You think you are about to suffocate and get scared to cough.

The problem as I see it, is that if they get through babyhood, most kids are likely to survive whooping cough, and the time when it's fatal is really before they are likely to have had their immunization, so people just don't see the point, but then in an unvaccinated community, the babies at risk become surrounded by not-so-much-at-risk older kids with whooping cough and so are exposed to it more than they would be in a vaccinated society. The vaccination process is more about society as a whole than individuals and that's an idea that isn't so popular in parenting these days.