wpgrace wrote:willing freshie wrote:OK. Well, if she continues to get out there promoting it all during the next year, then fine. I know I seem like a B**TCH but I have just lost a dear friend and fellow teacher to cancer last night (at 49) so that may color my views a bit.
I am sorry WF... that would put anyone on edge... we have a friend struggling for life right now and my husband is a survivor...
Celebrities often adopt causes because it has some connection to someone they know too... In one of the interviews in which JLo appeared this week, she did note that the Latino community has been particularly plagued with the return of the Whooping Cough... which would make sense, as there are some within the very large Latino community in America who are poor and/or uninsured and/or illegal and thus don't seek medical help or get vaccinated. If the Latino community is particularly hard hit by the disease... JLo would be an appropriate spokesperson for it... and would likely feel a sense of responsibility to add her influence to getting vaccinated...
Thanks, Grace! She was healthy in Sept., teaching first grade, then she thought she had the flu, then she thought she had walking pneumonia, and,finally, in December, when she couldn't breathe on her own, they found she had lymphoma. They treated her, but she died last night. She left 3 teenage sons.
That may be true. The school where I taught until last year here in the LA area is very high in poor Latinos. I am a bilingual teacher and we have not heard a thing about this in the elementary schools. I would think if it was so prominent, we would be sending home flyers to the parents.
Unfortunately, many of these illegal immigrants do not vaccinate. They will not go to the doctors until they are actually sick. Socialized medicine in Mexico is not preventive; you go when you are ill. J Lo will have great trouble reaching these people.
Right now, we need to watch out for the swine flu, which is killing many in Mexico City and is beginning to show up here. It originates from pigs. I would be more worried about that spreading than the very off-chance your child gets WC. This is much more serious and widespread. Besides, unless J Lo is doing these interviews on Spanish TV, she is not aiming at the right community. They don't watch RR or Regis or any of those. She may be doing that although my husband watches a lot of TV in Spanish,( being from Mexico City) and we haven't seen her there. If promotion is not her aim, than she should be on the stations to reach the more highly affected populace. (She may be; if anyone here finds out she did that, please correct me.) She has the Latino influence for it, after all.
Otherwise, well, you decide where her motivation was.
ETA: Gracie, my husband is also a survivor (prostate cancer). 8 years cured!
