While some parents are frantic to get swine flu shots for their children and make them wear protective masks, other parents are deliberately exposing their children to the swine flu.

These parents believe that exposure at a young age will strengthen the child’s immune system. So, instead of protecting their child from the flu, they encourage contact with other sick children.

Of course, the AMA finds the practice to be totally unacceptable, but I guess that is to be expected.

When I was a child, I had the mumps, the chicken poxes and measles. So did all of my friends. And, no one died from it though we did get a few days off from school. Now a days, children are vaccinated against these diseases.

I was vaccinated against diseases that did kill children, but that practice has been discontinued in the US. Go figure.