Last night during an Oly Nanny Co-op meet'n'greet, one of the parents asked if we will accept children who have not been vaccinated. It was a good question, because I've worked primarily in childcare settings in Florida, where I don't know if we ever encountered a family who had not vaccinated.
And I started thinking if I would vaccinate my own child and kids that I co-parent....
I have read a little about it, seen a lot of negative media about it--which I'm still rolling my eyes at--and I think I will probably always vaccinate. I'm not necessarily pro-vaccination because of health reasons or anti anyone who doesn't. I just know that I will be raising Black children and/or mixed race Black children. I know enough about how the medical industrial complex has treated Black bodies and it continues to treat them and people of colour today. It makes me intensely wary of what type of treatment potentially sick kids of mine would receive and the quality of that treatment.
I'm not willing to put my kids and family through that.
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