Care2 petition to fund vaccines

[Guest guest]

I was surprised to get a pop-up asking to sign a petition to fund vaccines when

I was sending Mother's Day cards on the Care2 website. Care2 puts out a lot of

information about environment, natural health and various activist causes

(http://www.care2.com/).

Here is the text of the pop-up:

(http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/426/435/231/)

Childhood vaccines are one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives and

prevent disease for a lifetime. And now, for the very first time, we have two,

proven new vaccines that will help stop pneumonia and diarrhea -- two of the

biggest killers of children under 5 around the world.

But we need your help! Sign our petition today and ask our government leaders to

help fund these two proven vaccines and save 4 million children's lives in 5

years.

Here is my reply:

No caring person wants children to die from pneumonia and diarrhea, but I do not

support the idea that injecting a child with toxic or infectious material or

circumventing the normal immune system is the best way to avoid deaths. The

vaccines are not even named and seem to be in a developmental state - how do we

know they are safe, much less effective? I DO NOT support this petition drive

and am shocked that this site does.

Maybe some of you would like to contribute. But when I went back to the site, I

saw names but few comments, so I don't know if my actual message had the desired

affect.

Ruth Pearson

[Guest guest]

I was surprised to get a pop-up asking to sign a petition to fund vaccines when

I was sending Mother's Day cards on the Care2 website. Care2 puts out a lot of

information about environment, natural health and various activist causes

(http://www.care2.com/).

Here is the text of the pop-up:

(http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/426/435/231/)

Childhood vaccines are one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives and

prevent disease for a lifetime. And now, for the very first time, we have two,

proven new vaccines that will help stop pneumonia and diarrhea -- two of the

biggest killers of children under 5 around the world.

But we need your help! Sign our petition today and ask our government leaders to

help fund these two proven vaccines and save 4 million children's lives in 5

years.

Here is my reply:

No caring person wants children to die from pneumonia and diarrhea, but I do not

support the idea that injecting a child with toxic or infectious material or

circumventing the normal immune system is the best way to avoid deaths. The

vaccines are not even named and seem to be in a developmental state - how do we

know they are safe, much less effective? I DO NOT support this petition drive

and am shocked that this site does.

Maybe some of you would like to contribute. But when I went back to the site, I

saw names but few comments, so I don't know if my actual message had the desired

affect.

Ruth Pearson