作者：Jane Roberts
© L. Davies Butts
翻译：赛斯的熊猫

[Rob:] For all of the disadvantages of vaccination and inoculation programs, then, Seth obviously doesn’t recommend that we abandon them at present, since most of us believe in their efficiency.

[Rob：] 对于疫苗接种的所有缺点和接种程序，赛斯显然不建议我们目前放弃它们，因为我们大多数人都相信它们的效率。

It may be some time before private beliefs are strong enough to sustain us, without the use of those medical “crutches.” Still, we can try to minimize such dependency (as Jane and I do now), and to avoid taking shots simply because they’re “in vogue."

如果不使用那些医疗“拐杖”，个人信念可能需要一段时间才能强大到足以支撑我们。尽管如此，我们还是可以尽量减少这种依赖性（就像珍和我现在所做的那样），尽量避免仅仅因为它们“流行”而接种。

Still, Jane and I do have our cats inoculated against feline distemper and respiratory viruses; pets acquired at humane societies (as ours often are) have already shared an infected environment.

不过，珍和我确实让我们的猫接种了针对猫瘟热和呼吸道病毒的疫苗；在人文社会（就像我们经常这样）生存的宠物已经共享了一个受感染的环境。

We suppose that if we had young children we’d see to their receiving the immunizations they “should” have, or are required to have by a school board, for example. It’s very difficult in our society to rely upon beliefs alone where other people are involved, particularly in the face of medical and scientific propaganda. (Let me add, though, that there are available today numerous vaccines against childhood diseases, but that many parents ignore many of them. Some of those vaccines — for whooping cough, mumps, measles, German measles or rubella, for instance — are still quite controversial. They’re often only partially effective, and can cause a variety of side effects: reactions ranging from the temporary to the permanent or fatal.

例如，我们假设如果我们有年幼的孩子，我们会确保他们接受他们“应该”或学校董事会要求的免疫接种。在我们的社会中，在涉及其他人的环境下，仅依靠信仰是非常困难的，尤其是在医学和科学宣传面前。（不过，让我补充一点，今天有许多针对儿童疾病的疫苗，但许多父母忽略了它们中的许多种。那些疫苗中的一些——例如用于百日咳、腮腺炎、麻疹、德国麻疹或风疹的疫苗——仍然颇有争议。它们通常只有部分有效，并且会引起各种副作用：从暂时的（副作用）反应到永久性的或致命的（副作用）反应。

Jane and I strongly recommend that parents thoroughly investigate and understand the pros and cons involved with each inoculation their children will receive.

珍和我强烈建议父母们彻底调查并了解他们的孩子将接受的每一次接种所涉及的利弊。