and? The rest of my points still stand. Still very much a choice to stay home at that point.

at ~ 15% tax rate (what I pay making around the 45K mark), you'd be "losing" about 6750 K to taxes, leaving you with an annual *net* gain after daycare. And you'd have continued work experience, continued retirement…

I was a SAHM for years and it was fucking peach. Some days were bad days, sure. But it was an easy gig, overall. I got to watch TV during naptime, enjoy beautiful weather whenever I wanted to, go to the library. And if I was up late the night before I got to turn on Dora and snooze on the couch for an hour.

That still nets 15K! That pretty much makes it a choice!! And daycare is a temporary expense!

*not yet!

y'know, I might actually be able to argue that in the legislature. I bet I could get the law changed.

Um. nope. Hickey is out national WINTER sport, Lacrosse is summer.

Because the evidence is one sided, and it is firmly pro-vaccine (not pro-disease)

This is true- but let's not mince words here. There is zero evidence to support the idea that the delayed schedule is as good as the CDC schedule. It has not been tested - the CDC one has.

OH MY GOD I love you- will you be my new BFF?

Before routine hep B vaccination, thousands of children every year contracted hep B in the US through non-sexual contact and many developed chronic Hep B infections. It is absolutely a benefit to vaccinate babies for Hep B. It has saved lives. Hep B causes liver cancer. and if contracted in infancy, a child has a 90%…

Sorry. Science is on the pro-vaccine side. You're the one that looks like a climate change denier.

FYI Dr. Sears' vaccine schedule has no evidence to back it up. As in- he completely made it up, and it's untested. The CDC schedule (or PHAC schedule) is actually tested with academic rigor and peer review.

I have several scars on my face, scars on my back and arms. All from CP.

That sounds horrible. But everyone seems to insist chicken pox is no big deal. It is a horrible illness to live through. I had it the summer I turned 2, and my first memories are being in pain, and feeling horrible. I still have scars all over my body. I had sores everywhere- in my nose, down my throat, around my…

I had pox like that as a child. It can be a very big deal for kids too. Chicken pox can be fatal in children. Or it can lead to hospital stays.

It is often worse in adults- but it can be very bad for kids.

For most kids chicken pox is no big deal. If suffering for 2 weeks being sick is no big deal... But not all. A certain number will develop complications like pneumonia, or encephalitis. And they might die.

The vaccine is necessary because kids *do* die from CP. Kids are hospitalized from CP. Not all, but some. But *ALL* kids suffer from CP. It's itchy. painful, and you feel like crap.

Why expose your kids to the risk of chicken pox? Yes - there is a minuscule risk to the vaccine - but there is a greater risk of complication in contracting CP. Children do die from complications of CP, and children are hospitalized.

I was only a baby (2 yrs old) , basically, when I had CP. One of my first memories is…

It's not just her reproductive health. There is a baby involved.

You've clearly misunderstood my point- I have also said it is all about compromise. Not once did I ever draw some arbitrary line that one person hurt more. I spoke of my experience in how I was hurt, sure - more than my partner? I don't know, we don't get into silly pissing contests. It's not very productive and…